Mark Zuckerberg
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I think a lot of other people in the industry studied computer science, right?
So it's always been sort of the intersection of those two things for me.
But I think it's also sort of this like,
really deep drive.
I don't know how to explain it, but I just feel like in the constitutionally, like I'm doing something wrong if I'm not building something new.
Right.
And so I think that there's like,
You know, even when we're putting together the business case for, you know, investing like $100 billion in AI or some huge amount in the metaverse.
It's like, yeah, I mean, we have plans that I think make it pretty clear that if our stuff works, it'll be a good investment.
But like, you can't know for certain from the outset.
And there's all these arguments that people have, you know, whether it's like,
you know, with advisors or, or different folks.
It's like, well, how, how could you like, it's a, how are you confident enough to do this?
And it's like, well, the day I stopped trying to build new things, I'm just done.
I'm going to go build new things somewhere else.
Right.
It's like, it's like, it is, I'm fundamentally incapable of,
running something or in my own life and like not trying to build new things that i think are are interesting it's like that's not even a question for me right it's like whether like whether we're going to go take a swing at like building the next thing it's like it's like i'm i'm just incapable of not doing that um and i don't know i and i'm kind of like this in like all the different aspects of my life right it's like we built this like
My family built this ranch in Kauai and I just worked to design all these buildings.
We started raising cattle and I'm like, all right, well, I want to make the best cattle in the world.