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"Zuckerberg is cool now" became a meme very suddenly. His reputation changed overnight but people don't change overnight. I'd guess part of it is that he hired
by sandspar 3y ago
"Zuckerberg is cool now" became a meme very suddenly. His reputation changed overnight but people don't change overnight. I'd guess part of it is that he hired a team. He's physically and orally expressive in his latest videos. Someone with social awkwardness like him doesn't just develop charisma overnight without being coached. He's even dressing highly fashionably: again something that is unlikely to occur overnight unless you've been coached. If he's hired charisma and fashion coaches to help rewrite his image then it stands to reason that he's hired a PR team as well. As in, he likely has hired a team who use their media contacts to plant positive stories about him. If I'd received the public drubbing that he has, I'd probably hire a team as well.
- mentos 3y agoIf I had to point to something specific it would be the review of the Apple Vision Pro and his championing of his own company’s work with Quest 3. I wasn’t the biggest fan of him but something about that video hit the right chords for me.
- sandspar 3y agoYeah I like that video too. His public speaking and body language in it is also clearly a product of professional training. I assume he's received professional presentation training for most of his career. But it seems to have recently clicked for him, something which I attribute to hiring a new team, although I could be wrong.
- paxys 3y agoWhat makes you think it happened "overnight"? He has been improving in all these areas for years. For example he has been training in MMA and BJJ at least since the pandemic and has publicly chronicled his progress.
- ManuelKiessling 3y ago„He‘s looking and acting extremely human here, must be running llama 3 under the hood“. As always, the YouTube comments section delivers.
- renaudg 3y agoWhat if Zuckerberg didn't change overnight but his terrible reputation was somewhat undeserved all along ? I worked at Facebook in 2010-2011 and I must say that the gap between what was really going on inside, and the hysterical, least possibly charitable interpretation and scrutinizing of every single product decision by the press, public, and politicians was insane. By far the worst I'd ever seen. As an engineer, I actually learnt to appreciate the job of a PR team during that time (I previously assumed they were professional hypocrites paid who put a positive spin on indefensible corporate decisions), and was impressed at how professional they managed to remain as they had to counter some truly insane shit with facts, and still nobody believed them because Facebook is the devil and obviously lying. Of course there were obviously some large fuck-ups at Facebook over the past decade (some of which even originated from good intentions, like the Cambridge Analytica fiasco : "people accuse us of being anticompetitive as we sit on a treasure trove of data, let's be more open and create a platform !") In my view, these were more the product of Zuck's failure to rein in bad ideas from some executives due to his inexperience, rather than any indication of strategic malevolence and cynicism on his part. In other words, he's not perfect but I've always seen him as the rather decent guy that more people can see now, like in this interview. If there's one area where he has changed a lot, it's probably in his ability to show it.
- gu74 3y agoIt doesnt matter if the founder of Jurassic Park is cute, imperfect or misunderstood if what happens in the park is unpredictable and uncontrollable.