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Yeah, if he had waned to make money he had plenty of opportunities before Facebook even went public. He has a vision and he is executing it in all his power, ne
by plicense 11y ago
Yeah, if he had waned to make money he had plenty of opportunities before Facebook even went public. He has a vision and he is executing it in all his power, never worrying about how much he earns.
This reminds of something Vij Rajarajan(big boss in MSFT) told about - "I have realized almost everything in life is a paradox. If you want to grow in your current role you might think you have to not help out others and worry only about your job but in reality you grow by helping out others".
I think this also applies to Mark Zuckeberg - if he had wanted to make money the company would not have grown so much. He focused on the vision and now he has made money.
- marincounty 11y agoWhat? He waited waited until he had enough people hooked, and then, and only then did he go public. He gently pricked our arms with ads. When he didn't get much flack; he went hog wild. This dude is all about the money. Mark didn't want to make a little money--he wanted it all. Hell, he tried to weasel the original founder's fathers money out of FB. Why--because he wanted the money. Oh, the foreign dude didn't were a hoodie, and a tee shirt to the office? Exactly what is Mark's vision? It's money. I thought I got him wrong when I heard Internet.org was going to set up as a California nonprofit, but found out that was just rumor. It's not even a Delaware nonprofit. It's for profit! He'll always have complete control. Personally, I think FB is one of the worst/dictatorial things to happen to the Internet. Will it go away--maybe in certain demographic markets, like the Bay Area. I don't run into people anymore asking me to "FB them.", and when I do go on there a lot of people I know only activate on the weekends. Will the rest of the world ever dislike FB--who knows? They still like disco. I've hero worshiped very few tech founders. Maybe it's just me, but I always seem to see there worst traights? Maybe because I was screwed over once? As to all his philanthropic work--it has tax benefits. People lionionize Bill Gates too. I don't get it? We were forced into buying his operating system. It's our money in that nonprofit him, and his wife play God with.
- wyclif 11y agoI don't care much about Facebook's success, but I'm curious about one thing you said here...the "activate on weekends" part. Is this a type of social behaviour in and of itself for Bay Area tech people? You're not talking about logging out of Facebook, I think you mean deleting your account for one-week periods and reactivating it only on the weekend, right?
- ryanmonroe 11y agoWho "forced" you to buy a Microsoft OS?
- humanrebar 11y agoI have to use MS or Apple OSs to work from home.
- jedrek 11y agoThat's between you and your employer.
- humanrebar 11y agoGive me a break. It's an honest answer to the question. And it's not just between me and my employer. It's an industry-wide problem, albeit not the biggest problem out there.
- dannypgh 11y agoMicrosoft, by charging OEMs for a license regardless of whether you bought a computer with Windows or not. It took a consent decree to stop the process. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_of_Microsoft_Windows https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_of_Microsoft_Window...
- rezashirazian 11y agoMissionary vs Mercenary. And surprisingly, the missionary ends up making more money.