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.
Building a mission and building a business go hand-in-hand. It is true that the primary thing that makes me excited about what we’re doing is the mission, but I also think, from the very beginning, we’ve had this healthy understanding which is that we need to do both.
If you think about companies that were built in Silicon Valley, a lot of them early on were chip companies. And now the companies that are there, like Apple, are much more successful than any of the chip companies were.
My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don’t care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that – building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.
When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.
Of course the Silicon Valley is unique and Berlin is not yet comparable. But of all the different cities that are building a startup infrastructure, Berlin is the one with the most similar energy.