The crazy thing to me is how well suited people of Zuck's age group are to running companies suited to web technology. A more "mature" CEO would not have the right mindset to steer something as pliable as a web app into a product that keeps up with the non-stop competition for users' attention. If something cooler comes around the corner and enough people latch onto it, you're fucked. Zuck gets this because he probably thinks exactly how his target audience thinks. So the question then becomes: What happens when Zuck is too mature to see what's coming next?
The Maturation of Mark Zuckerberg
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Re: The Maturation of Mark Zuckerberg
#12The crazy thing to me is how well suited people of Zuck's age group are to running companies suited to web technology. A more "mature" CEO would not have the right mindset to steer something as pliable as a web app into a product that keeps up with the non-stop competition for users' attention. If something cooler comes around the corner and enough people latch onto it, you're fucked. Zuck gets this because he probab…
> So the question then becomes: What happens when Zuck is too mature to see what's coming next?
He can buy/hire people who are good at that.
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#13The IPO is timely because there is no telling how long it will take for Facebook to become the next MySpace. It could be 6 months or a couple of years, or never, if they find some way to reinvent themselves before then.
I'm not at all worried about Facebook failing. I'm worried about them succeeding beyond all expectations.
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#14> “Basically, there are two ways to build an organization,” a former Facebook employee explains. “You can be really, really good at hiring, or you can be really, really good at firing.” Zuckerberg has been really good at firing. There seems to be a plethora of news about hiring, but when was the last time you saw something about firing?
I thought the firing aspect was the one new thread in the entire 5 page article. The rest was simply a rehash.
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#15The IPO is timely because there is no telling how long it will take for Facebook to become the next MySpace. It could be 6 months or a couple of years, or never, if they find some way to reinvent themselves before then.
I'm not at all worried about Facebook failing. I'm worried about them succeeding beyond all expectations.
You shouldn't be worried about either.
Smoke and mirrors are always in stock.
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#16"Facebook was not intended to be a company." I'm still not sure it is a company. What exactly does FB produce? It's main asset is your personal information. Which of course it does not own. FB users produce everything, and hand it over for free to the "funethical" crew of FB "engineers" to play with. As Zuckerberg would say, "Dumb fucks."
> "Maybe he's not a good guy, but he's not a bad guy."
Translation: He has too much money, and FB has too much potential influence on our readers, for us to tell you what we really think.
that's unduly cynical. if you read the rest of the article, they explain their reasoning - mainly that, when zuckerberg might have fired people ruthlessly in his rise to the top, they did not feel that any of those firings were actually unfair.
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#17The crazy thing to me is how well suited people of Zuck's age group are to running companies suited to web technology. A more "mature" CEO would not have the right mindset to steer something as pliable as a web app into a product that keeps up with the non-stop competition for users' attention. If something cooler comes around the corner and enough people latch onto it, you're fucked. Zuck gets this because he probab…
> So the question then becomes: What happens when Zuck is too mature to see what's coming next? He can buy/hire people who are good at that.
Every company is staffed with "good" people; some are not that good, and some are not listened to.
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#18"Facebook was not intended to be a company." I'm still not sure it is a company. What exactly does FB produce? It's main asset is your personal information. Which of course it does not own. FB users produce everything, and hand it over for free to the "funethical" crew of FB "engineers" to play with. As Zuckerberg would say, "Dumb fucks."
> "Maybe he's not a good guy, but he's not a bad guy." Translation: He has too much money, and FB has too much potential influence on our readers, for us to tell you what we really think. that's unduly cynical. if you read the rest of the article, they explain their reasoning - mainly that, when zuckerberg might have fired people ruthlessly in his rise to the top, they did not feel that any of those firings were actu…
You're right. Too cynical. I took it out. But remember we don't know who the executive is. He/she may have been even worse than Zuckerberg on the ethical scale. I don't doubt there are some very creepy "executives" working at Facebook.
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#19The crazy thing to me is how well suited people of Zuck's age group are to running companies suited to web technology. A more "mature" CEO would not have the right mindset to steer something as pliable as a web app into a product that keeps up with the non-stop competition for users' attention. If something cooler comes around the corner and enough people latch onto it, you're fucked. Zuck gets this because he probab…
I don't understand your point. What does maturity have to do with "the right mindset to steer something as pliable as a web app into a product that keeps up with the non-stop competition for users' attention?"
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#20"Facebook was not intended to be a company." I'm still not sure it is a company. What exactly does FB produce? It's main asset is your personal information. Which of course it does not own. FB users produce everything, and hand it over for free to the "funethical" crew of FB "engineers" to play with. As Zuckerberg would say, "Dumb fucks."
> "Maybe he's not a good guy, but he's not a bad guy." Translation: He has too much money, and FB has too much potential influence on our readers, for us to tell you what we really think. that's unduly cynical. if you read the rest of the article, they explain their reasoning - mainly that, when zuckerberg might have fired people ruthlessly in his rise to the top, they did not feel that any of those firings were actu…
"rise to the top"?
I think you mean protecting his position at the top from "executives". Some of who may have little skill to offer the company (as someone above said, age is a factor) but are who are quite adept at maneuvering their way into higher salaries and greater powers of decision-making.