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Stone and Williams looked at Zuckerberg and enquired as to why he wasn’t pushing to the front of the queue, only to be met with a "that’s not how we do it here"

by GavinB 15y ago

Stone and Williams looked at Zuckerberg and enquired as to why he wasn’t pushing to the front of the queue, only to be met with a "that’s not how we do it here" rebuttal. The duo from Twitter promptly left, Stone telling Sagal "we don’t like to be queued up". This story is told from Stone and Williams' perspective, but Zuck comes out sounding a lot better. Who wants to work in a place where the founders will push you out of the way to get to the food first? Let's hope this is media distortion, not their real attitude.

schinazi 15y ago
There's no distortion. He might have been joking, but it was related during banter when he was a guest on the "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me" game show, not an edited interview.
brown9-2 15y ago
From the transcript of the NPR radio show this is taken from: Mr. STONE: That wasn't even the worst moment. The worst moment was he was like hey, do you guys want to go have lunch at our cafeteria. So we had to wait on this huge line for lunch. Evan was like aren't you the boss? Can't you like kind of cut the line a little bit here? (Soundbite of laughter) Mr. STONE: And he's like that's not how we do things here. (Soundbite of laughter) Mr. STONE: And that's when I said, oh my gosh, Evan, we have that thing. SAGAL: Really? (Soundbite of laughter) Mr. STONE: You bailed? Ms. POUNDSTONE: All because you waited in a line? (Soundbite of laughter) (Soundbite of applause) Mr. STONE: We don't like to be queued up. (Soundbite of laughter) Really curious from anyone who has the time to listen to the whole audio if it comes of as a joke or not. http://www.npr.org/2011/07/16/138160765/twitter-co-founder-biz-stone-plays-not-my-job http://www.npr.org/2011/07/16/138160765/twitter-co-founder-b...
- pasbesoin 15y ago
  Realize that the blog mis-characterizes this as an "interview". It was an appearance on the NPR comedy show "Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me". While Peter Sagal and crew are a bright group of people, they are producing a humorous program. This Q and A moment aside, Stone was on there to "answer three questions" unrelated to what he does or is. (They're changing the format slightly, but the segment has traditionally been titled "Not My Job".) Still, it was an interesting moment of apparently candid observation from Stone, albeit with emphasis of humor as an obvious aspect. Zuckerberg does come off as difficult to relate to.
- numlocked 15y ago
  It definitely came across as a joke. The interview was really, really funny (on an otherwise average wwdtm episode). If you listen to the show, you'll know how tongue-in-cheek it is. Both Biz and Mark came across as good people, just wildly different.
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- amirmc 15y ago
  The audio starts from 5:24 from the link above. This is also a great example of how things can get 'lost-in-translation' when people try to describe situations/stories in text form. Listen to the audio and compare with TNW's post to see what I mean. Edit: I mean this bit specifically "Both Stone and Williams looked at Zuckerberg and enquired as to why he wasn’t pushing to the front of the queue, only to be met with a “that’s not how we do it here” rebuttal. The duo from Twitter promptly left, Stone telling Sagal “we don’t like to be queued up”."

by GavinB 15y ago

schinazi 15y ago

There's no distortion. He might have been joking, but it was related during banter when he was a guest on the "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me" game show, not an edited interview.

brown9-2 15y ago

From the transcript of the NPR radio show this is taken from: Mr. STONE: That wasn't even the worst moment. The worst moment was he was like hey, do you guys want to go have lunch at our cafeteria. So we had to wait on this huge line for lunch. Evan was like aren't you the boss? Can't you like kind of cut the line a little bit here? (Soundbite of laughter) Mr. STONE: And he's like that's not how we do things here. (Soundbite of laughter) Mr. STONE: And that's when I said, oh my gosh, Evan, we have that thing. SAGAL: Really? (Soundbite of laughter) Mr. STONE: You bailed? Ms. POUNDSTONE: All because you waited in a line? (Soundbite of laughter) (Soundbite of applause) Mr. STONE: We don't like to be queued up. (Soundbite of laughter) Really curious from anyone who has the time to listen to the whole audio if it comes of as a joke or not. http://www.npr.org/2011/07/16/138160765/twitter-co-founder-biz-stone-plays-not-my-job http://www.npr.org/2011/07/16/138160765/twitter-co-founder-b...

pasbesoin 15y ago
Realize that the blog mis-characterizes this as an "interview". It was an appearance on the NPR comedy show "Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me". While Peter Sagal and crew are a bright group of people, they are producing a humorous program. This Q and A moment aside, Stone was on there to "answer three questions" unrelated to what he does or is. (They're changing the format slightly, but the segment has traditionally been titled "Not My Job".) Still, it was an interesting moment of apparently candid observation from Stone, albeit with emphasis of humor as an obvious aspect. Zuckerberg does come off as difficult to relate to.
numlocked 15y ago
It definitely came across as a joke. The interview was really, really funny (on an otherwise average wwdtm episode). If you listen to the show, you'll know how tongue-in-cheek it is. Both Biz and Mark came across as good people, just wildly different.
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amirmc 15y ago
The audio starts from 5:24 from the link above. This is also a great example of how things can get 'lost-in-translation' when people try to describe situations/stories in text form. Listen to the audio and compare with TNW's post to see what I mean. Edit: I mean this bit specifically "Both Stone and Williams looked at Zuckerberg and enquired as to why he wasn’t pushing to the front of the queue, only to be met with a “that’s not how we do it here” rebuttal. The duo from Twitter promptly left, Stone telling Sagal “we don’t like to be queued up”."