The ability to share whole scenes form our lives will be a valuable thing over time.
There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.
I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.
Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected.
Simply put: we don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services. And we think this is a good way to build something.
I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.
It took 10 years to go from building the initial Smartphone to reaching the mass market. BlackBerry came out in 2003 and it didn’t get to about a billion units until 2013. So I can’t imagine it would be much faster for VR.
I’m trying to make the world a more open place by helping people connect and share.
And connected is helping people stay in touch and maintain empathy for each other, and bandwidth.
Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.
I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do.
Companies face a handful of different risks, whether it is competitors or different market environments. But I think that people focus way too much on competitors and not enough on their own execution.
I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.
Virtual Reality is going to be an important technology. I am pretty confident about this.
Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.
What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.
Connecting the world is really important, and that is something that we want to do. That is why Facebook is here on this planet.
I personally don’t invest in a lot of companies because I think it would be a conflict of interest and Facebook doesn’t typically either.
Today we can only hear the voices and witness the imaginations of one-third of the world’s people. We are all being robbed of the creativity and potential of the two-thirds of the world not yet online. Tomorrow, if we succeed, the Internet will truly represent everyone.
It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.