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Am I the only one getting the impression this dude was merely lucky back in the day, in fact at the right time, rather than having been super intelligent nor fo
by larodi 2mo ago
Am I the only one getting the impression this dude was merely lucky back in the day, in fact at the right time, rather than having been super intelligent nor forward thinking… ?
I mean - given all his throw outs in media and his apparent burn of nearly 80bn for a failed 3D world?
- subarctic 2mo agoI mean, of course it was a matter of being at the right place and right time, and being able to execute. He definitely was lucky but that alone isn't enough
- chinathrow 2mo agoGreed was needed next to luck.
- OsrsNeedsf2P 2mo agoDisclaimer- ex Meta employee. Horizon was horribly managed, but also we threw all of our unannounced projects under that umbrella to make it look better for shareholders when we finally cut it. The original LLM research, smart glasses, and a bunch of other projects were under the "Reality Labs" business expense.
- larodi 2mo agowhat amount, if we agree some nice research came out of these labs, we can attribute to Zuck directly impacting the process in a positive way...? I'm trying to counter my thesis here really, but let's allow myself to be wrong about a person.