Mark Zuckerberg Quotes
I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.
Our philosophy is that we care about people first.
Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.
If you're always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.
Once you have a product that you are happy with, you the need to centralize things to continue growth.
I remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, 'Maybe someday we'll build a company. This probably isn't it, but one day we will.'
I think a lot of the time there isn't such a black-and-white difference between what's a platform and what's an app. It's really just like the most important apps become platforms.
The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.
I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.
I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome.
I like making things. I don't like getting my picture taken.
The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.
We're running the company to serve more people.
The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It's just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.
When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity - everything was anonymous or pseudonymous - and I thought that real identity should play a bigger part than it did.
Our goal is not to build a platform; it's to be cross all of them.
I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.
About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.
It's really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.
