The curious case of Mark Zuckerberg

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Who is Mark Zuckerberg and what defines his public persona?

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21-year-old Mark Zuckerberg turned his little web experiment into a very big business. It's called thefacebook.com and is like no college directory you've ever seen. Mark, if somebody was to put the question to you about the magnitude of what you think you've launched, how big do you think your product or your service is? Well, it's impossible to tell. When we first launched, we were hoping for, you know, maybe 400, 500 people. Harvard didn't have a Facebook, so that's the gap that we were trying to fill. And now we're at 100,000 people.
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Shira Frenkel 2:25
Move fast and break things was changed as Facebook's official motto. because I think they were skewered in the press for that particular motto. However, to this day, if you go to Facebook's headquarters, that is the code for their wifi. Mark showed an interest in robotics and in coding. His parents immediately threw their weight behind that. And so you see a childhood of the only boy, he has sisters, in a family where he was told from a very young age that he was special.
Adrian Weckler 2:53
Hello, and you're welcome to The Big Tech Show with me, Adrian Weckler. Now, what is Mark Zuckerberg really like? 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 are the key elements of Mark Zuckerberg's early life and upbringing?

Adrian Weckler 3:19
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 Cain, 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.

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