Mark Zuckerberg Shakes Up Meta's A.I. Efforts, Again

Post by BobaFloutist » Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 9:38 PM UTC

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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.

"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." While it's easy to shit on such a strategy, that does in-fact make him a great CEO.

Post by galoisscobi » Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 12:45 AM UTC

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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.

> I think he’ll be looked back as one hit wonder, lacking any ethics to grow his company. I can't take this seriously - it reeks of hindsight bias. Zuckerberg's "one hit" was thefacebook.com. After facebook.com went public he, seemingly immediately, decided to buy Instagram and go all in on mobile. At the time, people thought he had way too much power due to the stock structure and many people thought his bet on mobi…