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I feel like Zuckerberg has always seen (and wanted to see) himself as an idea person. He's the guy who invented Facebook! That phrase is practically synonymous
by brundolf 5y ago
I feel like Zuckerberg has always seen (and wanted to see) himself as an idea person. He's the guy who invented Facebook! That phrase is practically synonymous at this point with "tech visionary".
But he hasn't had a real, successful idea since Facebook. He bought Oculus, he bought Instagram, he bought WhatsApp. Original experiments like Portal have mostly been flops. The longer Facebook goes along as it is, the richer and more detached he gets, the deeper his delusion grows and the more audacious (and expensive) are his desperate efforts to prove that he's still the visionary he always thought/wished he was.
So now we're entering the "nobody except him even knows what he's talking about anymore" phase, which he probably takes as a sign that he's seeing things others can't, when the reality is that he's living in his own little world that's only getting further and further removed from the real one. Some part of me feels bad for him.
- reducesuffering 5y agoWhile I think that's true on some level, in general I think this largely downplays Zuckerberg's competence. The company is $1T market cap and still fully controlled and executed by just him, the original founder. No other entity compares to that. It's the most concentrated power across the world we've ever seen. As powerful as president's seem, there's so many checks, balances, and compromises within and across parties to do things, I don't think it compares. And you just don't get there without an incredible amount of smarts and calculating. If anyone has a small chance of ending up emperor of the fucking universe, as scary as that is, it's this guy.
- brundolf 5y agoI'm not saying he isn't smart, I'm saying he isn't creative (but I think he wants to be). As you say, he's got more power than potentially any other single person, and what does he have to show for it other than more power?
- perl4ever 5y ago>The company is $1T market cap and still fully controlled and executed by just him, the original founder. That doesn't mean he's been essential for a long time. I think an awful lot of people thought that Steve Jobs was important to Apple when he died in 2011. But look at it now.
- 908B64B197 5y ago> He bought Oculus, he bought Instagram, he bought WhatsApp Three great purchases. Lots people stopped using Facebook and exclusively use Instagram nowadays.
- Apocryphon 5y agoWonder why he hasn't looked into starting his own space program.
- annadane 5y ago>He's the guy who invented Facebook! And probably not even that, he probably took it from other people