Mark Zuckerberg
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That must just be like the temporary time between which you're making things proprietary.
Right.
And it's, but, but I actually think it's like this very profound thing in tech that it's
has actually, it creates a lot of winners, right?
And it's, and so I don't know, I don't want to strain the analogy too much, but I do think that there's, there's a lot of times I think ways where you can
that are just like models for building things that people can't even like, they just like often can't wrap their head around how that would be a valuable thing for people to go do or like a reasonable state of the world that it's, I mean, it's, uh,
I think that there's more reasonable things than people think.
I think that's an interesting example both from a lot of history and American history too.
I mean, one of my favorite quotes, it's this Picasso quote that all children are artists and the challenge is how do you remain an artist when you grow up?
And it's like basically I think because when you're younger, I think it's just easier to
have kind of wild ideas and you're not, you know, you have no, there are all these analogies to the innovators dilemma that exist in your life as well as your company or whatever you've built, right?
So, you know, you're kind of earlier on your trajectory.
It's easier to pivot and take in new ideas without it disrupting other commitments that you've made to different things.
And so I don't know.
I think that that's an interesting part of running a company is like, how do you, how do you kind of stay dynamic?
Well, I think here's, I think, a question which we'll have to evaluate this as time goes on too.
But...
We have a long history of open sourcing software, right?
We don't tend to open source our product, right?
So it's not like we don't take like the code for Instagram and make it open source, but we take like...