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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So we'll come to that in a couple of minutes.
His early life, just for the benefit of listeners and viewers, born in 1984 in New York.
He's a New Yorker, so he's 42 now.
He's three kids.
Seems he's a fairly stable family life.
His father was a dentist and his mother was a psychiatrist.
So it was a real upper middle class childhood, but a fairly happy one.
And I think at the age of 12, didn't he create or program something for his father's dentistry office called Zucknet, was it?
Was that for his father's dentist's office?
Yeah, because he goes to one of America's elite prep schools.
I don't know if it's the Phillips Exeter Academy, apparently studies or excels in classics, maths, programming and fencing.
He was captain of the fencing team, which is kind of interesting to me because that's I wouldn't have had him as a sport to go.
But this maybe fits in with the profile of somebody who's very competitive and likes to to joust.
Yeah, this is with his giant stars and stripes or what he's dressed up as Uncle Sam on July the 4th.
That one.
Yeah, it's fascinating.
But he goes to Harvard anyway, of course, because of course he does, in 2002, studies psychology and computer science.
And that's where he starts to create the services which are a precursor or directly lead to Facebook.
CourseMatch is one, helps students pick classes based on peers' choices.
But then FaceMatch,
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