Think of all the value Zuck has built by staying in control for so long and for refusing to go public. Also I get the impression that he doesn’t care in the slightest how the market values his work.
President Barack Obama sits between Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg at Technology Business Leaders at a dinner in Woodside, California
What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private information on corporations to you for free, and I’m a villain. Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he’s Man of the Year.
Mark Zuckerberg is Time’s 2010 Person of the Year
“He’s very affable, he’s in the moment, he’s quick-witted,” Time Managing Editor Richard Stengel said, but “he has this thing when he gets on camera” and becomes suddenly shy. [Full story]
Julian Assange was the Readers Choice for Time’s Person of The Year
“All these privacy issues I’ve brought up in my newsletter, you know, all these examples of users getting screwed for lack of a better word, were these designed with bad intent?” I asked.
“Actually, no… we just didn’t have any oversight or process in the early days, and we were encouraged by Zuckerberg to just push changes to the site,” Bob said.
“Can I get an example of that?” I asked.
“Sure. Photos was built by two people in a couple of days, and they just pushed their changes to the site without showing it to anyone. Zuck encouraged us to just push changes and not worry about it,” Bob explained.
“Wait a second… you’re saying there was no product review, no product manager… no thought to just pushing changes to the server of one of the most popular sites in the world?” I asked, perplexed.
“Yes,” Bob said.
Mark Zuckerberg interviewing George W. Bush live on Facebook
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