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Facebook charm offensive just turns into being offensive
- thisisit 8y ago> The visibly uncomfortable Zuckerberg continued his trip And there is your answer on why the charm offensive is just an offensive - Zuckerberg is as charming as a dead slug. One might think that he has taken some CEO coaching classes to come across as more understanding and convincing but it seems unlikely. Most of his appearances in front of lawmakers are just painful to watch.
- diminoten 8y agoI think the biggest reason Zuck is so lifeless is that his honest opinions are extremely polarizing. When your market segment is "everyone on the planet", anything you do other than the most bland, boring things, will alienate some part of your potential user base. Combine that with Zuck's general "Users are pretty fucking dumb" attitude early on, and I bet not only are his real opinions polarizing, they're also probably pretty damn misanthropic. Hard to sell a product to "everyone" when you come out as generally anti-"everyone". If there is still even a "real" Zuck left under there, I bet he's completely unlike what we see in the public eye. Not exactly a huge revelation, but people forget sometimes the dynamics at play when Zuck decides to say something, and what FB stock will do as a result.
- jen729w 8y ago“Once the session had begun and much to everyone's bemusement, it quickly dawned on viewers that the format of the Q&A session was very unorthodox. Lawmakers went round in turns asking questions directed at Zuckerberg and it was only after a full 75 minutes of one-sided questioning that Zuckerberg had the opportunity to respond, leaving his total response time to fifteen minutes” And they wonder why people voted for Brexit.