It was pretty fascinating to see my French friends reactions and comments on the presidential elections, all of them automatically, in real time, in one location that I can see from my laptop or my phone. I\u2019ve never had that opportunity before, give it up to the Zuck y\u2019all. <\/p>\n
The building of Facebook really impresses me. Mark doesn\u2019t give a damn about money, I\u2019m pretty sure that even before starting thefacebook.com, as a Harvard student from a nice New York Jewish family, he didn\u2019t aim to get rich as fuck as he was already out of any need. As a programmer he wanted to build something never done before and something cool. The first 1+ billion people network, which is close to be a reality.<\/p>\n
\nThe letter that Zuckerberg included in Facebook\u2019s IPO prospectus is even more direct about his priorities than Bezos\u2019s was. Zuckerberg wrote this letter himself, a \u00adFacebook source says, and it begins with the following sentence: \u201cFacebook was not originally created to be a company.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
Article: The Maturation of the Billionaire Boy-Man<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The fact that he started something just for fun, that this thing exploded, that he maintained control over it first technically -Twitter lost a LOT by not being reliable- and second business-wise to the point of having complete control over the company today, is a massive achievement for a 28 year old. That\u2019s a lot of work. People forget the huge competition in social networks and how Facebook went at its own rhythm, slowly spreading and getting bigger while everybody else was failing. So much can go wrong at that scale, I mean\u2026<\/p>\n
It makes me sad too, because this would never happen in France. Not really because of the lack of money and investment, much more because of the risk-averse mentality deeply rooted in my country and because of the work laws, it would be impossible to hire and fire people rapidly as it will happen when growing a start-up in a really fast environment like software is. You need to rapidly find the good people which means you\u2019re going to make mistakes, which means fire people. France\u2019s system just doesn\u2019t allow something like that (and it will not change for the next 5 years, it\u2019s pretty much done).<\/p>\n
People argue that FB doesn\u2019t make money, that ads don\u2019t work as great as Google\u2019s. Mark basically got rid of the co-founder of Facebook when he found out that Eduardo had started to run ads on the site without telling him. He probably -like a lot of geeks- hates ads, he\u2019s born in 1984, of course he thinks they\u2019re dumb. He\u2019s also smart enough to know that the ad economy is doomed, even TV knows it now<\/a>. Ads are totally doomed on mobile as they cripple the experience so much, ask Android. <\/p>\n
The point is, you don\u2019t need this retarded way of getting money from users when you serve a closed network of 1 out of 8 people on earth. You can monetize so many services, useful services. There\u2019s a better way to make money.<\/p>\n
Even if he has already achieved something, I guess his mind state is the same as in 2004; "what\u2019s the next right thing to build?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n
And he needs to find it fast and make it happen nicely. So simple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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