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Zuck should be seen as the exception not the rule, he is demonstrably much smarter than your average CEO or even your average SV founder. Yea he's a robot, but

Zuck should be seen as the exception not the rule, he is demonstrably much smarter than your average CEO or even your average SV founder. Yea he's a robot, but while that may make him less likable among the general public he still is able to show enough "EQ" to his team and investors to keep them happy. Everyone thinks they can replicate his success because they too are smart and have a great idea, but most really aren't as smart as him and he really lucked out with the timing, SV funding was still young enough that he was able to get away with things that would never fly today.

disgruntledphd2 3y ago
> he still is able to show enough "EQ" to his team and investors to keep them happy. He was really good at hiring (and listening to) people who were better than him at lots of other things. Sheryl Sandberg in particular is probably more responsible for FB's success than anyone except him. He also retained a ridiculously large proportion of those early folks, who could tell him he was being dumb. He's basically lost almost all of them in the past 3-5 years (to be fair, they were all billionaires so he did well to retain them for as long as he did), so we'll have to see how the next 5-10 years work out.