I don’t want to be in a situation where I have to leave some other commitment or worse I am rude and someone else has to support my stuff. I stopped coding for Facebook a while ago.
The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete.
People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build.
With some of the issues around the Snowden leaks and what the NSA was doing I think have scared people around the world and I think in many ways rightfully so.
Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life.
With a generation of younger folks who have thrived on the success of their companies, there is a big opportunity for many of us to give back earlier in our lifetime and see the impact of our philanthropic efforts.
In a world that’s changing so quickly, you’re guaranteed to fail if you don’t take any risks.
I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don’t pretend that if Facebook didn’t exist, that this wouldn’t even be possible. Of course, it would have.
Hollywood has nothing to do with real life.
I started the site when I was 19. I didn’t know much about business back then.
I would only hire someone to work directly for me if I was willing to work for that person.
On engagement, we’re already seeing that mobile users are more likely to be daily active users than desktop users. They’re more likely to use Facebook six or seven days of the week.
If things aren’t breaking, then you’re not moving fast enough. People learn by making mistakes.
Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.
This is our commitment to users and the people who use our service, is that Facebook’s a free service. It’s free now. It will always be free. We make money through having advertisements and things like that.
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.