We also have a dog. His name’s Beast. He’s a sheepdog. He’s super cute. I love him.
It only took me two weeks to build the first version of Facebook because I had so much stuff before then.
There’s a difference between being obsessed and being motivated.
I think as a company, if you can get two things right – having a clear direction on what you are trying to do and bringing in great people who can execute on the stuff – then you can do pretty well.
I mostly built stuff that I liked.
While we generally believe in free speech and giving everyone as much ability to speak as possible, in practice there are lots of barriers to that, whether it’s legal restrictions, technological restrictions or you can’t share what you want if you don’t have access to the internet.
Betting completely on HTML5 is one of the, if not THE biggest strategic mistake we’ve made.
I made so many mistakes in running the company so far, basically any mistake you can think of I probably made. I think, if anything, the Facebook story is a great example of how if you’re building a product that people love you can make a lot of mistakes.
The last six years have been a lot of coding and focus and hard work. But maybe it would be fun to remember it as partying and all this crazy drama.
The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly. Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.
The web is at a really important turning point right now. Up until recently, the default on the web has been that most things aren’t social and most things don’t use your real identity. We’re building toward a web where the default is social.
Google, I think, in some ways, is more competitive and certainly is trying to build their own little version of Facebook.
Of course, hate speech and racism have no place on Facebook.
It’s tough to say, exactly, what things will look like in three to five years, but there’s a lot of work to do in just moving along the path that we’ve already set out.
I think that the tax situation needs to be worked out between the countries themselves.
It is really important for us that people understand what the strategy is and that the real approach is to make everything social, not to build a vertical approach.
Stuff like photos and events and groups – we’ve built pretty basic versions of those apps to start but they ended up being so much more used because of their social integrations.
People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don’t really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard.
In my experience everyone will have a different view of the right level of tax so governments need to provide clear guidance that conforms to a set of international standards that all governments accept.
If you recognize that self-driving cars are going to prevent car accidents, AI will be responsible for reducing one of the leading causes of death in the world.