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Mark Zuckerberg, born on May 14, 1984, is a renowned programmer and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder, CEO of Facebook, and the founder and CEO of Meta Platforms. Known for his innovation and leadership in the internet industry, Zuckerberg's achievements have changed the lives of billions around the world.

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“This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.”

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“When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don't want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren't. There are pranks, IMs.”

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“I like to pride myself on thinking pretty long term, but not that long term.”

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“If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out.”

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“A lot of the time the experts, the people who are supposed to be able to tell you what to do, will tell you that you can't do something even when you know you can. And a lot of the time it's your friends ... who tell you you can do it.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“It occurred to me that building a company was the best way to align a group of people towards building something great. And its really... it's a good organizational structure where you can really reward people. If they're building something that's good, you can you work with partners and reward them if the product that you're developing work well. It's a good way to get the best people involved to build something very good.”

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk.”

“The question I ask myself like almost every day is: ‘Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?' Unless I feel like I’m working on the most important problem that I can help with, then I’m not going to feel good about how I’m spending my time. And that’s what this company is.”

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“Our strategy is very horizontal. We're trying to build a social layer for everything. Basically we're trying to make it so that every app everywhere can be social whether it's on the web, or mobile, or other devices.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“Nothing influences people more than are commendation from a trusted friend.”

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“People influence people. Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend. A trusted referral influences people more than the best broadcast message. A trusted referral is the Holy Grail of advertising.”

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“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.”

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“If I were starting now I would do things very differently. I didn't know anything. In Silicon Valley, you get this feeling that you have to be out here. But it's not the only place to be. If I were starting now, I would have stayed in Boston. [Silicon Valley] is a little short-term focused and that bothers me.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

People Care Don't Care

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“Find that thing you are super passionate about. A lot of founding principles of Facebook are that if people have access to more information and are more connected, it will make the world better; people will have more understanding, more empathy. That’s the guiding principle for me. On hard days, I really just step back, and that’s the thing that keeps me going.”

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“So many businesses get worried about looking like they might make a mistake, they become afraid to take any risk. Companies are set up so that people judge each other on failure. I am not going to get fired if we have a bad year. Or a bad five years. I don’t have to worry about making things look good if they’re not. I can actually set up the company to create value.”

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“I know it sounds corny, but I’d love to improve people’s lives, especially socially… Making the world more open is not an overnight thing. It’s a ten-to-fifteen-year thing.”

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“At Facebook, we're inspired by technologies that have revolutionized how people spread and consume information. We often talk about inventions like the printing press and the television - by simply making communication more efficient, they led to a complete transformation of many important parts of society. They gave more people a voice. They encouraged progress. They changed the way society was organized. They brought us closer together.”

“I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.”

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“We look for people who are passionate about something. In a way, it almost doesn’t matter what you’re passionate about. What we really look for when we’re interviewing people is what they’ve shown an initiative to do on their own.”

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“Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life.”

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“Google, I think, in some ways, is more competitive and certainly is trying to build their own little version of Facebook.”

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“If the original Facebook was the first five minutes [of a conversation] and the stream was the next 15, what I want to show you today is the rest-the next few hours of a deep engaging conversation.”

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“Our mission is to make the world more open and connected. We do this by giving people the power to share whatever they want and be connected to whoever they want, no matter where they are.”

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“Simply put: we don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services.”

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“The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.”

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“Why are most chess masters under 30?”

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“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.”

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“I think I've grown and learned a lot.”

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“If Facebook were a country, it would be the 8th most populated in the world, just ahead of Japan.”

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“It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me.”

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“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.”

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“A guy who makes a new chair doesn't owe money to everyone who ever built a chair.”

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“The trick isn't adding stuff, it's taking away.”

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“It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.”

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“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.”

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“If you don't risk anything you risk everything”

“My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program.”

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“I mostly built stuff that I liked.”

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“There's a difference between being obsessed and being motivated.”

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“We also have a dog. His name's Beast. He's a sheepdog. He's super cute. I love him.”

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“Move fast, take risks, it's okay to try big things you're better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all.”

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“In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.”

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“Our work to improve privacy continues today.”

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Born: May 14, 1984
Known for: Programmer
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