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It's funny how quickly Zuck managed to turn his image around from "data-stealing actual lizard person" to "kind of normal guy" with a few years and a haircut. I

It's funny how quickly Zuck managed to turn his image around from "data-stealing actual lizard person" to "kind of normal guy" with a few years and a haircut. It's also not lost on me that he's the only "hacker" major tech CEO remaining: - Sundar is a glorified bean counter and his company is rotting from the inside, only kept afloat by the money printer that is ads. - Satya and Microsoft are in a similar boat, with the only major achievement being essentially buying OpenAI while every other product gets worse - Tim Cook is doing good things with Apple, but he still runs the company more like a fashion company than a tech company - Amazon was always more about logistics than cool hack value, and that hasn't changed since Bezos left - Elon is Elon Meanwhile Zuck is spending shareholder money pushing forward consumer VR because he thinks it's cool, demoing true AR glasses, releasing open-source models, and building giant Roman-style statues of his wife.

oblio 2y ago
Microsoft has Azure, which is growing like crazy from a high base point.
talldayo 2y ago
I feel like owning Oculus must be the equivalent of the curse of the monkey's paw. It drove Palmer Luckey veritably[0] insane[1] when he was the head of it, and between the statue nonsense, the weaponizing of Llama and his angling for a position as a Trump advisor, it sure looks like Zuckerburg wants to head down the same path. [0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/palmer-luckey-made-a-vr-headset-that-kills-the-user-if-they-die-in-the-game/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/palmer-luckey-made-a-vr-head... [1] https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/us-border-surveillance/ https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/us-border-surve...
nimish 2y ago
Pichai, Cook and whoever runs Amazon are excellent operators. Perhaps the best in the game. But you can't simply sit on past success.
a2128 2y ago
In my mind, Zuckerberg will always be a data-stealing lizard person and no amount of MMA training will change that

oblio 2y ago

Microsoft has Azure, which is growing like crazy from a high base point.

talldayo 2y ago

I feel like owning Oculus must be the equivalent of the curse of the monkey's paw. It drove Palmer Luckey veritably[0] insane[1] when he was the head of it, and between the statue nonsense, the weaponizing of Llama and his angling for a position as a Trump advisor, it sure looks like Zuckerburg wants to head down the same path. [0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/palmer-luckey-made-a-vr-headset-that-kills-the-user-if-they-die-in-the-game/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/palmer-luckey-made-a-vr-head... [1] https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/us-border-surveillance/ https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/us-border-surve...

nimish 2y ago

Pichai, Cook and whoever runs Amazon are excellent operators. Perhaps the best in the game. But you can't simply sit on past success.

a2128 2y ago

In my mind, Zuckerberg will always be a data-stealing lizard person and no amount of MMA training will change that