Adrian Weckler
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6,116 appearances
43 recordings
9 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 3d ago
Adrian Weckler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We all know him as one of the four or five individuals, people like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos, who symbolize this era's masters of the tech universe.
And we also know him as the guy whose companies not only dominate the world's social media, but now make $1 billion in profit every five days from their ad machines on Facebook and Instagram.
What about Zuckerberg himself?
I mean, is he wooden?
Is he ruthless?
Insecure?
A chain wearing jujitsu mastering bro?
Or are all of those things just caricatures and stereotypes?
Well, few people have studied his working life.
as much as the New York Times.
It's Shira Frenkel, a Pulitzer Prize winner and also a previous finalist who, together with her New York Times colleague Cecilia Kant, co-authored the bestseller An Ugly Truth, Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination.
Shira, I met him once in Dublin and...
I thought that while he was in control, he seemed a little robotic.
And one thing that did surprise me, didn't have a presence or an aura when he walked into a room, very unlike a lot of the other big tech founders and CEO that I've met.
Is that fair?
That's a perfect term.
He was really, really scripted.
He kept moving his head by about seven degrees from journalist to journalist every eight or nine seconds on message.
That's interesting.
We'll come to your comment there about him being scripted with an army of PR people was an interesting one, given what your book revealed about his tight control and his management.
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