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I concur with you. I don't understand why folks must criticize or demean Zuck. What exactly are these people criticizing him for? That he did not solve the bigg

by zaidf 16y ago

I concur with you. I don't understand why folks must criticize or demean Zuck. What exactly are these people criticizing him for? That he did not solve the biggest scaling problems and instead let his employees do that(ever wonder how they attracted those employees in first place)? That he did not write every line of code(where would Facebook even be if Zuck insisted on writing code himself)? That all he's got is a site with 500M users and a shit load of revenue(raise your hand if you got a site with .0001% of that)? Good god it is outrightly ridiculous. Yes, I am a Zuck fanboy. At least I can admit it and cite a few reasons why. All I keep hearing from the other side is "omg all he's got is a freakin php site". Yeah, that's why he is a billionaire and you are not. People keep saying "all Zuck did was scale". DOH! Scaling is what separates McDonalds from your local burger joint and facebook from millions of other php sites. If scaling is all Zuckerberg has done, good for him! That is all he should be doing.

kyro 16y ago
It's more jealousy than anything. People hate the fact that someone their age or younger is living the dream -- Ivy League education, explosive traction, rapid growth, investors at your feet, multimillionaire, all during your 20's.
- julian37 16y ago
  Not multimillionaire - multibillionaire, with a B. http://www.forbes.com/profile/mark-zuckerberg http://www.forbes.com/profile/mark-zuckerberg That said, I can't see anybody in this thread being jealous or criticizing Zuckerberg. People are merely stating that his accomplishments do not automatically make him a "genius hacker" just because his very successful business happens to have to do with "computers".
pyre 16y ago
> That he did not solve the biggest scaling problems and instead let > his employees do that(ever wonder how they attracted those > employees in first place)? I think that Seldo was contradicting the popular image that since Zuckerberg built some 'tech thing' and that it's really successful that he's some sort of 'genius hacker.' This is completely different from the sentiment that Zuckerberg is some sort of 'chump that just got lucky.' Personally, I think the idea that he is some sort of 'hacker genius' stems from the fact that the vast majority of the people that use Facebook, are probably the same type of people that thought I was a 'hacker genius' for showing them how to change their wallpaper or use Alt-Tab to switch between windows. It comes down to some equation like: do something related to X + gain success/fame/money = genius at X Whereas that's not necessarily the case. You wouldn't put the person that developed Netflix's recommendation algorithm up with Einstein or Euler, but that's not to say that he/she isn't smart or 'just got lucky.' Other people posts here seem to just be related to fighting the assertion that Zuckerberg gave Facebook success due to some genius piece of code. This assertion detracts from all of the rest of the stuff that made Facebook a success (business decisions, etc), any one of which had the potential to sink Facebook. tl;dr Zuckerberg did a lot of things and made Facebook through a lot of hard work, but the moniker 'genius hacker' is not fitting. That is not a criticism of Zuckerberg so much as it is a criticism of the MSM (or just people in general) trying to boil the success of Facebook down to a single thing (the code) and claim that Zuckerberg's success must make him a genius at the one thing.

by zaidf 16y ago

kyro 16y ago

It's more jealousy than anything. People hate the fact that someone their age or younger is living the dream -- Ivy League education, explosive traction, rapid growth, investors at your feet, multimillionaire, all during your 20's.

julian37 16y ago
Not multimillionaire - multibillionaire, with a B. http://www.forbes.com/profile/mark-zuckerberg http://www.forbes.com/profile/mark-zuckerberg That said, I can't see anybody in this thread being jealous or criticizing Zuckerberg. People are merely stating that his accomplishments do not automatically make him a "genius hacker" just because his very successful business happens to have to do with "computers".

pyre 16y ago

> That he did not solve the biggest scaling problems and instead let > his employees do that(ever wonder how they attracted those > employees in first place)? I think that Seldo was contradicting the popular image that since Zuckerberg built some 'tech thing' and that it's really successful that he's some sort of 'genius hacker.' This is completely different from the sentiment that Zuckerberg is some sort of 'chump that just got lucky.' Personally, I think the idea that he is some sort of 'hacker genius' stems from the fact that the vast majority of the people that use Facebook, are probably the same type of people that thought I was a 'hacker genius' for showing them how to change their wallpaper or use Alt-Tab to switch between windows. It comes down to some equation like: do something related to X + gain success/fame/money = genius at X Whereas that's not necessarily the case. You wouldn't put the person that developed Netflix's recommendation algorithm up with Einstein or Euler, but that's not to say that he/she isn't smart or 'just got lucky.' Other people posts here seem to just be related to fighting the assertion that Zuckerberg gave Facebook success due to some genius piece of code. This assertion detracts from all of the rest of the stuff that made Facebook a success (business decisions, etc), any one of which had the potential to sink Facebook. tl;dr Zuckerberg did a lot of things and made Facebook through a lot of hard work, but the moniker 'genius hacker' is not fitting. That is not a criticism of Zuckerberg so much as it is a criticism of the MSM (or just people in general) trying to boil the success of Facebook down to a single thing (the code) and claim that Zuckerberg's success must make him a genius at the one thing.