I really wonder how Zuckerberg will be looked back on. It's seemed obvious that he's an incredible CEO given the growth we saw with Facebook, but maybe he was just in the right place at the right time and had a cash cow that was difficult to mess up? Because when I look at the Metaverse and I look at this AI stuff... I dunno. Feels like throwing spaghetti at the wall.
tw04 · 1m ago
He got on top because he has no ethics as evidenced by his actions from the start.
He stayed on top by having the foresight to buy up anyone he could that even smelled like a competitor and had the luxury of still being under the radar at that time.
I’m not sure either one makes him a great CEO but it did make him rich.
galoisscobi · 51m ago
I think he’ll be looked back as one hit wonder, lacking any ethics to grow his company. He pumped a whole bunch of money in VR that didn’t seem to go anywhere and now AI seems like a fine direction to go in, copying the herd, with dangerous disregard to ethics.
atonse · 43m ago
Agree with you about ethics but it was a master stroke for him to buy both Instagram and WhatsApp.
herbturbo · 37m ago
He was just buying users of popular products in lieu of attracting new ones to his own.
Meta has subsequently ruined IG and seems busy working up new ways to ruin WhatsApp.
ok, but I want to know if these superstars still had to leetcode interviews.
gedy · 46m ago
Yeah I mean I know these are experienced AI experts, but they could be faking or coasting. We better give a twentysomething Sr. Software Engineer veto power over these hires just to be sure./s
ml-anon · 1h ago
MSL can already be written off as a failure.
Zuck didn’t get the people he wanted despite literally offering billions. He then attached MSL to his other failed GenAI org which was already an astounding failure of leadership from the now triple headed team (wang, nat and zuck) which resulted in people fighting for budget, scope and prestige.
Meanwhile you have 1000x comp inequality among ICs and in some cases people getting 10x higher offers than others just because they happened to finish interviews a week later.
These people couldn’t organize a piss up in a brewery, good luck with AGI.
emocin · 14m ago
Zzzzzz
moralestapia · 2h ago
EOL for LeCunn.
redleader55 · 7m ago
I follow him on LinkedIn: he works on the things that will come in 10 years, not on the products that Meta ships in 1-2 years. LeCunn is going to be there for some time.
kilroy123 · 2h ago
I think no matter what Mark does to shake things up. ~Facebook~ Meta will always be out-innovated by a startup and forced to keep acquiring and gobbling up anything that becomes remotely successful.
nine_zeros · 1h ago
> I think no matter what Mark does to shake things up. ~Facebook~ Meta will always be out-innovated by a startup
This happens to all companies that end up with - pardon my French - a shithole culture.
He stayed on top by having the foresight to buy up anyone he could that even smelled like a competitor and had the luxury of still being under the radar at that time.
I’m not sure either one makes him a great CEO but it did make him rich.
Meta has subsequently ruined IG and seems busy working up new ways to ruin WhatsApp.
Zuck didn’t get the people he wanted despite literally offering billions. He then attached MSL to his other failed GenAI org which was already an astounding failure of leadership from the now triple headed team (wang, nat and zuck) which resulted in people fighting for budget, scope and prestige.
Meanwhile you have 1000x comp inequality among ICs and in some cases people getting 10x higher offers than others just because they happened to finish interviews a week later.
These people couldn’t organize a piss up in a brewery, good luck with AGI.
This happens to all companies that end up with - pardon my French - a shithole culture.