If you combine engineer mindset, business acumen, relentless drive and do so over decades, you can get outsized results.
It's a thing to admire, *even if you dislike the products*. Much the same as you can be awed by Ray Kroc's execution regardless of whether you like McDonald's or what you think of him personally.
It simply isn't that common to have that combination of talents at work on one thing at such scale for so long. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates had the same combo of really being down in the details despite reaching such heights.
You can contrast to Google, a company whose founders had similar traits but who got tired of it. Totally understandable, but it makes a difference in terms of the focus of google today.
Again this is true regardless of what you think of Meta on, say, privacy vs. Google's original "Don't be Evil" idea.
Saying "wow they still have engineering leadership" is hardly worship. It's a statement of fact.
It's a thing to admire, *even if you dislike the products*. Much the same as you can be awed by Ray Kroc's execution regardless of whether you like McDonald's or what you think of him personally.
It simply isn't that common to have that combination of talents at work on one thing at such scale for so long. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates had the same combo of really being down in the details despite reaching such heights.
You can contrast to Google, a company whose founders had similar traits but who got tired of it. Totally understandable, but it makes a difference in terms of the focus of google today.
Again this is true regardless of what you think of Meta on, say, privacy vs. Google's original "Don't be Evil" idea.
Saying "wow they still have engineering leadership" is hardly worship. It's a statement of fact.