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I really wouldn't, truly. The only way you could get me to work for somebody like Zuck (if I even had any qualifications they were after - I most definitely do
by s5300 5y ago
I really wouldn't, truly. The only way you could get me to work for somebody like Zuck (if I even had any qualifications they were after - I most definitely do not) is if he were lobbying the entirety of the US political system to advance stem cell research and pry medical innovation out of the evangelicals cold soulless hands.
Back to Carmack - if I were Carmack, had the intelligence and experience Carmack does, along with the money and connections Carmack has - I would simply find somebody not as slimy as Zuckerberg to work on VR related things with, it's as simple as that. I'm sure there are several others who would be happy to fund him if he reached out.
Do you think otherwise?
- baby 5y agoDo you work for a better CEO?
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- UnpossibleJim 5y agoNot every person is smart in every way. Some people are very good at reading technology, some are very good at reading the motivation of other people. It could be that Carmack mistook Zuckerberg's intentions with Oculous and believed him on the handshake promise (I'm giving a lot of grace to Carmack... it's hard to see people you respected fall by the wayside).
- malloreon 5y agoUnless Carmack doesn’t have the ability to quit, he’s choosing to continue working for Zuck every day. As is every other fb employee.
- usrusr 5y agoI highly doubt that the metaverse thing (VR ad mass market or whatever) can work out economically. Therefore I read the Meta rebrand as an enormous personal hybris project, "I've succeeded before and I'll succeed again (and this time even if I fail I'll still have more money than I can ever spend)". The intentions are all late 20th sci-fi dreams, fully in line with what an idealized Carmack might like. From that tech dream perspective, which I assume they both share, the Facebook way of making money while chasing those dreams is just circumstantial details. For both of them. I'd expect those two to get along excellently. One of them is now basically renaming his life's work out of admiration for what the other can do, and the other is probably not infinitely immune to flattery.
- desmond373 5y agoYou could work there, proform in a negitive/incompetent way that doesn't lead back to you and then leave after a while with a boatload of cash and a slightly worse off company behind you. You could even influence those you leave behind leave the company in an even worse way. I wouldn't write someone off simply for working for someone.
- RealityVoid 5y agoHe's definitely not doing that. The man is sharp and doing a good job. But I do not have the same loss of respect that OP has.
- rabf 5y agoYou can hear for yourself what he has to say here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnSUk0je6oo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnSUk0je6oo
- tchalla 5y ago> The only way you could get me to work for somebody like Zuck (if I even had any qualifications they were after - I most definitely do not) is if he were lobbying the entirety of the US political system to advance stem cell research and pry medical innovation out of the evangelicals cold soulless hands. Zuckerberg Chan Biohub may satisfy some of your criteria https://www.czbiohub.org https://www.czbiohub.org
- KaiserPro 5y ago> I would simply find somebody not as slimy as Zuckerberg to work on VR related things with The problem is, there are only two other companies with the budget, R&D budget to do that. One is apple, who I doubt would let Carmack be free to do what he wants. The other is Microsoft.