Jon Quast
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He cracked the code with digital advertising and has done so exceedingly well that he has burned money and a lot of other things that have not paid off as social media did.
Just think about what he's been able to do with Instagram and WhatsApp and Facebook.
Can you imagine a world where digital advertising was still 100% Google?
I mean, what he has delivered in value for many people who do advertise on all of these other social media platforms.
I mean, I can't imagine a world without that.
So yeah, Zuck is headed for the Hall of Fame.
John?
I think he said for the Hall of Fame as well, incredibly tough thing that he's doing right now.
For one, when you take over at a company as significant, as successful as Alphabet, everything that you do is going to be scrutinized
More than what a founder would be scrutinized, I think.
Because you're not a founder, you're a steward.
You're a steward of something that is incredibly valuable and important.
And how you steward that is extremely consequential.
I mean, you look at Alphabet, right?
They had a lead on AI way before AI was cool.
And they have these Nobel Prize.
For sure.
They got people in the company who have won Nobel Prizes.
The intellectual, technological advances that they have at the company are huge.
To not capitalize on that would be seen as a grave, grave dereliction of duty.