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Mark Zuckerberg is a joke of a CEO and we should not take him seriously as a leader

by TSiege 7mo ago

jonnat 7mo ago
People said the same thing when he paid $1B for Instagram, for it to look like a crazy bargain a couple of months later.
- TheOtherHobbes 7mo ago
  People also said the same thing when he poured $70Bn into the Metaverse, and they were right.
  - tedmiston 7mo ago
    comparing an acquihire of two people by analogy to a $70B investment is a bit egregrious... this event is pocket change to big tech.
    - paxys 7mo ago
      Less than pocket change. The money is irrelevant but it does show that Zuck is all out of ideas and desperate to keep up in the AI race.
- macNchz 7mo ago
  If Moltbook becomes as big as Instagram I’m giving up on tech and moving to the mountains to raise goats.
  - dudeinjapan 7mo ago
    They will have to acquire Lobstagram next
    - sathish316 7mo ago
      ROFL
  - ReptileMan 7mo ago
    Blackadder: Sir, I have been unable to replace the dictionary. I am therefore leaving immediately for Nepal, where I intend to live as a goat.
    - yunnpp 7mo ago
      I am a goat.
  - sathish316 7mo ago
    It’ll be disappointing if Moltbook is somehow connected to the Metaverse or represents the best of what Metaverse at Facebook could ever be.
- wavemode 7mo ago
  Who exactly said that about the Instagram acquisition?
  - lobf 7mo ago
    Yeah I remember the discourse around that acquisition as being a really smart play to shore up the new frontier in social media as Facebook grew stale and uncool.
  - romanhn 7mo ago
    Tons of critical comments on HN at the time, for one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3817840 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3817840. And most of the positive ones viewed it as a defensive measure rather than another Google + YouTube story.
falcor84 7mo ago
I strongly disagree. I think he might be a joke as an individual, and I hate a lot about his impact on the world, but as a business leader, he's probably at the top 1% of all CEOs, which isn't saying that much, but it's very much not a joke if your metric is shareholder value.
- rockwotj 7mo ago
  > which isn't saying that much I mean I also think this move doesn’t make sense, but I always find these type of comments interesting. Do people think they could do better in Mark’s shoes?
- matthest 7mo ago
  What specifically about his impact on the world?
  - pastel8739 7mo ago
    Conributing to the rise of attention farming, shoving stuff down people’s throats that they don’t want to see, etc
wiseowise 7mo ago
Hear, hear. Add Scam Altman here too with hiring OpenClaw creator.

Mark Zuckerberg is a joke of a CEO and we should not take him seriously as a leader

by TSiege 7mo ago

Mark Zuckerberg is a joke of a CEO and we should not take him seriously as a leader

People said the same thing when he paid $1B for Instagram, for it to look like a crazy bargain a couple of months later.

TheOtherHobbes 7mo ago
People also said the same thing when he poured $70Bn into the Metaverse, and they were right.
- tedmiston 7mo ago
  comparing an acquihire of two people by analogy to a $70B investment is a bit egregrious... this event is pocket change to big tech.
  - paxys 7mo ago
    Less than pocket change. The money is irrelevant but it does show that Zuck is all out of ideas and desperate to keep up in the AI race.
macNchz 7mo ago
If Moltbook becomes as big as Instagram I’m giving up on tech and moving to the mountains to raise goats.
- dudeinjapan 7mo ago
  They will have to acquire Lobstagram next
  - sathish316 7mo ago
    ROFL
- ReptileMan 7mo ago
  Blackadder: Sir, I have been unable to replace the dictionary. I am therefore leaving immediately for Nepal, where I intend to live as a goat.
  - yunnpp 7mo ago
    I am a goat.
- sathish316 7mo ago
  It’ll be disappointing if Moltbook is somehow connected to the Metaverse or represents the best of what Metaverse at Facebook could ever be.
wavemode 7mo ago
Who exactly said that about the Instagram acquisition?
- lobf 7mo ago
  Yeah I remember the discourse around that acquisition as being a really smart play to shore up the new frontier in social media as Facebook grew stale and uncool.
- romanhn 7mo ago
  Tons of critical comments on HN at the time, for one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3817840 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3817840. And most of the positive ones viewed it as a defensive measure rather than another Google + YouTube story.

falcor84 7mo ago

I strongly disagree. I think he might be a joke as an individual, and I hate a lot about his impact on the world, but as a business leader, he's probably at the top 1% of all CEOs, which isn't saying that much, but it's very much not a joke if your metric is shareholder value.

rockwotj 7mo ago
> which isn't saying that much I mean I also think this move doesn’t make sense, but I always find these type of comments interesting. Do people think they could do better in Mark’s shoes?
matthest 7mo ago
What specifically about his impact on the world?
- pastel8739 7mo ago
  Conributing to the rise of attention farming, shoving stuff down people’s throats that they don’t want to see, etc

wiseowise 7mo ago

Hear, hear. Add Scam Altman here too with hiring OpenClaw creator.