4 ms·
My initial thoughts on Zuckerberg was that he was technically brilliant. But maybe "The Social Network" gave me the wrong impression.
by redrory 16y ago
My initial thoughts on Zuckerberg was that he was technically brilliant. But maybe "The Social Network" gave me the wrong impression.
- thinkcomp 16y agoThe Social Network gave you the wrong impression. Perhaps this is a better definition "Zuckerberg Syndrome," i.e. the condition of thinking that a person is smarter than they really are simply because they are rich. (It probably originated with Gates, in reality.) Anyway, Mark is smart, but so are a lot of people. And Chris was the marketing guy who got the site in the Crimson with impressive frequency, not Mark.
- redthrowaway 16y agoBoth Zuckerberg, and especially Gates, are really, truly, brilliant people.
- thinkcomp 16y agoYou may have missed my point. I have met both. Again, they are both smart, but many people are smart. Many people who read Hacker News are technically capable of doing what each of them has done. Of those, very few were also able to benefit from a number of the external forces that supported each of them, and fewer still would actually want to do what each of them did. So while they both may be quite intelligent people, they are not the most intelligent people ever to have lived, and are probably not even close. Being "brilliant" and being rich are not the same and there is no causal link in either direction!
- huertanix 16y agoThere are many brilliant people, but their time gets sucked away by Minecraft. It takes brains and balls to start a successful company.
- 3pt14159 16y agoGates took Math 55 and called it a "neat experience". Dude is exceptionally intelligent.
- qq66 16y agoZuckerberg is technically great but not great enough to have led the scaling of Facebook. Part of what he did so well was bring in the right people to help him handle the technical requirements of scaling Facebook.