[Thoughtcrime]

(07-06-2016 09:30 AM)Lizard King Wrote:  

governments use him to monitor their people and corporations use the data he collects.

Not like he has a choice. Unless he were to relocate the Facebook base to some other country. Any company of the size and influence of Facebook has to play ball with the government.

(07-06-2016 09:30 AM)Lizard King Wrote:  

He is no pioneer or leader, he does not command respect when he enters a room or building. As people have already said here, he got lucky and weaseled.

I disagree. His priorities are simply different than many other men's. He is trying to take over the world, more and more. He's sparring with the heavyweights, like Google. I highly suggest to those bashing him to read this article: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/h...ogle-plus.

I agree that FB is not exactly revolutionary, but, much like Bill Gates, it's what Zuckerberg did when he achieved that initial success that is really impressive. There are tons of stories of early success that fizzles out. It takes real finesse to not get screwed over by supposed colleagues and to not get chewed up by existing giants. Come to think of it, Facebook not only overtook a giant (MySpace), but successfully faced off an attack from another (Google). Google gave everything they had to push G+, but they just couldn't dethrone FB. You could say that it's a testament to Google's ineptitude when in their social strategy, but it also speaks volumes to how good of a product FB is.

[Phoenix]

Chuckerberg photos make me fucking sick. So do the stories. That ugly Asian dude he married won't even take his name either?

It's like a guy who's won the Olympic gold medal in his sport, walking out onto the street and handing it to the first bum he sees. Fucking disgrace. What a waste. If I was in his shoes I'd make Trump look like an incel.

[Liberty Sea]

(07-07-2016 03:01 AM)Thoughtcrime Wrote:  

(07-06-2016 09:30 AM)Lizard King Wrote:  

governments use him to monitor their people and corporations use the data he collects.

Not like he has a choice. Unless he were to relocate the Facebook base to some other country. Any company of the size and influence of Facebook has to play ball with the government.

(07-06-2016 09:30 AM)Lizard King Wrote:  

He is no pioneer or leader, he does not command respect when he enters a room or building. As people have already said here, he got lucky and weaseled.

I disagree. His priorities are simply different than many other men's. He is trying to take over the world, more and more. He's sparring with the heavyweights, like Google. I highly suggest to those bashing him to read this article: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/h...ogle-plus.

I agree that FB is not exactly revolutionary, but, much like Bill Gates, it's what Zuckerberg did when he achieved that initial success that is really impressive. There are tons of stories of early success that fizzles out. It takes real finesse to not get screwed over by supposed colleagues and to not get chewed up by existing giants. Come to think of it, Facebook not only overtook a giant (MySpace), but successfully faced off an attack from another (Google). Google gave everything they had to push G+, but they just couldn't dethrone FB. You could say that it's a testament to Google's ineptitude when in their social strategy, but it also speaks volumes to how good of a product FB is.

Thank you, Thoughtcrime, for being a voice of reason. I've been thinking more of less the same, though my position is somewhat in the middle. I think people here just got carried away with their anti-establishment sentiment. That's understandable, but we need to get more sober and objective.

Leftists certainly appreciate the role of luck more than the right. Their moral argument for redistribution of wealth is that poor people are mostly just unlucky/oppressed so they should be given assistance by the state; the rich got to where they are mostly through luck and help so they should give back through tax.

I'd say that if a business can maintain its success for a long time, then it is no mere luck. A talentless person who achieves success through luck alone will often have his luck burned out quickly. Even if you inherit a fortune or a kingdom, without ability you'll just ruin it.

Are there smart people who are unsuccessful? Sure. Does luck play a part? Sure. Is that all? No. In field like business and especially social media business, just having technical intelligence is enough. You must be innovative and have a knack for what's appealing to the mass, and a vigorous disciple, among other qualities. Show me an unsuccessful smart person who also masters those soft skills and works tirelessly to achieve his goal. In most cases, I find that unsuccessful smart dudes are either lazy/unmotivated, or socio-psychologically inept, lacking sensibility in some crucial aspects.

Zuckerberg might be a little spergy, but he understands what gets people interested. While luck certainly plays a part, it must be acknowledged that Facebook has an appealing interface, convenient features and are just generally addition-inducing. Some remarkable psychology is at work there. I don't find suggested alternatives as convenient as Facebook.

Zuck is a manager, not a leader of men. He may not have the presence and charisma of someone like Trump, but he knows who to hire and when to fire. It's unfair to apply peculiar leadership criteria in assessing management quality.

Zuck once said that he wore a brown shirt everyday because he wanted to save energy. Feminists attacked his comment for being sexist. While Zuck is part of a corrupt power structure, I think his dedication to work is admirable. His level of concentration and persistence is extra-ordinary. He worked hard and he worked smartly. Give credit when credit is due.

That said, he focuses too much on one aspect of life, so he is unbalanced. He's too fixated on his business, and forgets to live. If he enjoys his work, then that's good, but I don't think he really feels fulfilled. Mike Cernovich once said Zuck felt insecure around him when Sheryl Sandberg invited Mike and his wife, who was Facebook's first lawyer, to dinner. I take Mike for his words here. In that sense he's pitiful. It's also alright to hate Zuck for unethical assistance he has given to the government. But it cannot be said his success is due to mere luck, weaseling and connection.

I'm not going to bash Zuck's business acumen while praising Trump for his. Let's be consistent.

[Conquerer7]

All that money yet getting married to a 5....

Just shows you that having game is priceless.

[markus85]

She legitimately looks more masculine than him in most pictures.

[Pride male]

Who says he isnt fucking 9s and 10s on the side?

[puckerman]

(05-31-2014 10:27 AM)Dusty Wrote:  

Who wears blue jeans with sandals?

Who wears the cock in this relationship?

Why does Zuckerberg always look like he has the IQ of a houseplant? Is there any photo out there that makes him look like he has a brain?

[puckerman]

(07-06-2016 09:14 AM)gusfring Wrote:  

Old news but, Eduardo Saverin his ex-co-founder certainly has the right idea.

Saverin has more brains in his little finger than Zuckerberg has in his entire body. The main reason for Zuckerberg's success is that he surrounded himself with people like Saverin.

Saverin also had the brilliance to renounce US citizenship.

[AboveAverageJoe]

(07-07-2016 07:22 AM)puckerman Wrote:  

(05-31-2014 10:27 AM)Dusty Wrote:  

Who wears blue jeans with sandals?

Who wears the cock in this relationship?

Without socks for that matter, or without a cock for that matter.


WTF is up with Cuckerberg's posture? Its sceams either simp, cuck or fag, or all three.
He literally walks like he has a dick in his ass.

[markus85]

^^^^

Effeminate epitomised in a picture. Skinny fat, man boobs, neck beard fasion and the cuck stare.

Mad respect for the brain though!

[catoblepa]

looks like a cover up for his homosexuality. but maybe I'm wrong, if I had his money I'd be with premium escorts everyday. that and influencing world politics.

[TravelerKai]

(07-07-2016 12:57 AM)Soundbyte Wrote:  

^^^I am really surprised at that fact. I thought that the media kept on calling her by her maiden name!

In China, women always keep their family name. Only children get to keep their father's name.

All that said, I doubt she is really that traditional of a Chinese. I could be wrong though.




I love to see a pregnant woman in a dress. Always give em +1. However I can only give a .25 to Pricilla. If she walked past me in China or even the US, she would be invisible to me.

4.25/10 CNB (could never bang)

[TravelerKai]

(07-07-2016 07:22 AM)puckerman Wrote:  

(05-31-2014 10:27 AM)Dusty Wrote:  

Who wears blue jeans with sandals?

Who wears the cock in this relationship?

Why does Zuckerberg always look like he has the IQ of a houseplant? Is there any photo out there that makes him look like he has a brain?

No kiddin. If he had on white socks with Nike/Jordan sandals, we would have to give him some street cred.

[Oswaldo Guimaraens]

He didn't really choose her. She chose him. She was probably the first chick he banged; she stuck with him for whatever reason, so he pedestalized her. Simple as that.

[CodyB]

She looks like a Chinese peasant.

[philosophical_recovery]

She did the best she possibly could.

Too bad he doesn't lift and is a Merkel sucking piece of shit.

I still cringe at the thought of having all that money and waking up next to her for the rest of my life.

I think I'd accept the divorce rape just to get rid of her. Or just disappear to EE after lifting with an army of personal trainers and dietitians, then banging my way through the Ukraine.

But, I'm not him.

[scorpion]

Zuckerberg is a total sperg and lucked his way into Facebook. That's not to say he isn't a smart guy. He's obviously extremely intelligent. But there's absolutely no shortage of guys exactly like him at Ivy League schools and in Silicon Valley. The success of Facebook had almost nothing to do with him personally. He was just in the right place at the right time. Once the ball got rolling with social media it became almost impossible for Facebook to fail due to their insurmountable first mover advantage combined with the network effect.

A lot of guys here are probably too young to really remember what the internet was like pre-Facebook. There were previous social networking sites, most notably Friendster and MySpace. Friendster was simply too far ahead of its time. People weren't ready for the concept. The internet was still viewed as a sort of nerdy, weird thing, not something that normal people wanted to heavily integrate into their life or sense of identity. MySpace achieved the first decent amount of success and was essentially "proof of concept" for online social networking, but the platform itself was a total mess from an aesthetic and functional perspective. Users could customize their pages with html, which sounds kind of cool in theory but in practice mostly just resulted in people having these awful, cobbled together looking abortions of mixed and matched colors and text all over the place, with random music clips playing. It was fucking awful to use and was regarded as sort of a joke even among people who legitimately liked using it. With MySpace, people began to embrace social networking, but it was obvious that the concept was not fully evolved. Enter Facebook. It's essentially a sleek, locked down version of MySpace. No weird customized html. Just a picture, text and a "wall" to leave messages on (which, originally, any visitor to your profile could fully edit, i.e. modify or erase what previous visitors wrote. Pretty hilarious but quickly changed.) Facebook arrived on the scene at the perfect time: people were ready for social networking but felt that MySpace was not what they were looking for.

Once Facebook became organically popular among college students (again, for reasons that had nothing to do with Zuckerberg himself, it was simply an idea whose time had arrived) you could literally have replaced him with any one of his co-founders or peers (elite school educated, high IQ, tech savvy 20 something man) and Facebook would be in the exact same spot it is today. In fact, it's more accurate to speculate as to how much Zuckerberg has actually held Facebook back due to his spergy ways.

[DrCotard]

^ Yep. I remember the times when MySpace was the most known social media websites a decade ago. Many people had customized MySpace profiles (who were a pain in the ass to load with dial up modems).

The main success of Facebook was its clean design and the usability which MySpace was lacking, two main reasons why this earlier social media website fell in favor of Facebook. I must recognize that this platform was the pioneer of encouraging people to use the real name to open an account (Nowadays the real name is a requirement to open an account here)

I'm one of the first users of Facebook and I remember when this platform was very simple to use and you literally can put whatever name you liked it (in those times this platform was not as strict with this issue as it is today)

Oh, and regarding Eduardo Saverin:

[Phoenix]

(07-09-2016 09:44 AM)DrCotard Wrote:  

Oh, and regarding Eduardo Saverin:

Yep, I'd say Saverin has certainly done life better than Zuck:



Zuck has more money, but is everybody's bitch. Saverin just waved his finger at the US & its government and fucked off to less-cunty pastures with a cool $7B. It's not true that all Jews are good with money.

[Phoenix]

(07-08-2016 09:12 PM)scorpion Wrote:  

Zuckerberg is a total sperg and lucked his way into Facebook. That's not to say he isn't a smart guy. He's obviously extremely intelligent. But there's absolutely no shortage of guys exactly like him at Ivy League schools and in Silicon Valley. The success of Facebook had almost nothing to do with him personally.
...
Once Facebook became organically popular among college students (again, for reasons that had nothing to do with Zuckerberg himself, it was simply an idea whose time had arrived) you could literally have replaced him with any one of his co-founders or peers (elite school educated, high IQ, tech savvy 20 something man) and Facebook would be in the exact same spot it is today. In fact, it's more accurate to speculate as to how much Zuckerberg has actually held Facebook back due to his spergy ways.

With no respect to Zuck, this just isn't true. Peter Thiel has spoken many times about Zuckerberg as an entrepeneur, and how he personally bet on him because of his obsession and focus on his facebook project. This bet paid off big for him. One example he mentioned was there being a multi-billion dollar offer placed on the table for facebook by another company early-on, and Zuckerberg said no to it because "I like having facebook more than that money, if I got that money I'd probably just use it to make another social media". Thiel specifically mentioned the value of "borderline Aspergers types" running things because of their ability to avoid group-think mentality and their obsessive focus.

All the above stuff sounds dismissive and nice to read, but it's simply false.

The problem for the entrepreneur spergs is of course is that they get taken advantage of by everyone, which is exactly what has happened. Perhaps if Thiel had given him better advice for his personal life, things might have gone better for him, but Thiel is gay so he probably isn't much guidance in that.

[puckerman]

(07-09-2016 11:03 AM)Phoenix Wrote:  

With no respect to Zuck, this just isn't true. Peter Thiel has spoken many times about Zuckerberg as an entrepeneur, and how he personally bet on him because of his obsession and focus on his facebook project. This bet paid off big for him. One example he mentioned was there being a multi-billion dollar offer placed on the table for facebook by another company early-on, and Zuckerberg said no to it because "I like having facebook more than that money, if I got that money I'd probably just use it to make another social media". Thiel specifically mentioned the value of "borderline Aspergers types" running things because of their ability to avoid group-think mentality and their obsessive focus.

All the above stuff sounds dismissive and nice to read, but it's simply false.

The problem for the entrepreneur spergs is of course is that they get taken advantage of by everyone, which is exactly what has happened. Perhaps if Thiel had given him better advice for his personal life, things might have gone better for him, but Thiel is gay so he probably isn't much guidance in that.

I have only the highest respect for Thiel, but it would be nice to have one source in which Thiel is praising Zuckerberg.

Some gay men read women very well, too. I suspect he's been propositioned by women a lot.

Zuckerberg also had the benefit of learning from many of Tom Anderson's mistakes with Myspace. Ten years ago, it was the #1 social media site. But it also had a lot of problems that made people move to Facebook.

[philosophical_recovery]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national...-1.2796133

Mark Zuckerberg's plans to build 65,000-square-foot residential compound quashed by Palo Alto review board

Quote:

Mark Zuckerberg’s dreams of building a residential empire were dashed by a California review board.

A Palo Alto Architectural Review Board voted that the Facebook founder’s plans to demolish four houses surrounding his palatial primary residence in order to rebuild them for other “residential functions” would tarnish the character of his upscale neighborhood.

The review board also said that Zuckerberg's plans to rebuild the homes with vastly different layouts would violate local zoning regulations.

“If these things were put on the market individually, you’d have a hard time selling, because some of them are very unusual,” board member Robert Gooyer said, according to the San Jose Mercury News. “In the context, if you take all four of them, they make sense.”

I fucking hate zoning bullshit, HOAs, and all the other bullshit, but seeing this hypocritical faggot take it in the ass on this is just too hilarious.

[Kona]

(09-17-2016 06:07 PM)philosophical_recovery Wrote:  

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national...-1.2796133

Mark Zuckerberg's plans to build 65,000-square-foot residential compound quashed by Palo Alto review board

Quote:

Mark Zuckerberg’s dreams of building a residential empire were dashed by a California review board.

A Palo Alto Architectural Review Board voted that the Facebook founder’s plans to demolish four houses surrounding his palatial primary residence in order to rebuild them for other “residential functions” would tarnish the character of his upscale neighborhood.

The review board also said that Zuckerberg's plans to rebuild the homes with vastly different layouts would violate local zoning regulations.

“If these things were put on the market individually, you’d have a hard time selling, because some of them are very unusual,” board member Robert Gooyer said, according to the San Jose Mercury News. “In the context, if you take all four of them, they make sense.”

I fucking hate zoning bullshit, HOAs, and all the other bullshit, but seeing this hypocritical faggot take it in the ass on this is just too hilarious.

They mess with Zuckerberg everywhere he lives. He built a wall around 100 acres in Kauai: http://www.theinertia.com/news/facebook-...-of-kauai/

The secret is, someone else was gonna build like 300 houses had he not bought that. I think people are just hating on my man Zuck.

I also agree that zoning bullshit is just bullshit. First off the Palo Alto zoning committee is probably a group of eight homosexuals and non binary humans or whatnot. They are so worried about protecting their own outrageously inflated shit, I bet no one gets a damn thing done. He should have told them it was a gluten removal factory that employs illegal aliens with autism or some bullshit. California pisses me off.

Aloha!

[philosophical_recovery]

This is just a reminder that Zuckerberg has been working behind the scenes with the most corrupt people on the planet.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/ema...pAd9AfGAf6

Quote:

RE: in case you have time

From:[email protected] To: [email protected] Date: 2015-08-04 00:16 Subject: RE: in case you have time

Sheryl – thank you for the intro, to bcc for scheduling. Hi John, If 4-5pm Thursday afternoon on our campus in Menlo Park would work for you, that also works great for Mark. Please let me know and I can send the specifics over. My best, Andrea

From: Sheryl Sandberg Sent: Monday, August 3, 2015 4:52 PM To: John Podesta <[email protected]> Cc: Andrea Besmehn <[email protected]>; Elliot Schrage <[email protected]>

Subject: RE: in case you have time We would love to make it work for this trip or another.
Andrea here to coordinate with you.

From: John Podesta [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 03, 2015 4:33 PM To: Sheryl Sandberg

Subject: Re: in case you have time

Sheryl, Happy to do. My schedule is a little squeezed on this trip probably my best times are Wednesday evening or late afternoon Thursday, but I'm back often and could get on his schedule in a more reasonable way. Looking forward to seeing you. John

On Monday, August 3, 2015, Sheryl Sandberg <[email protected]<mailto[email protected]>> wrote: John, I hope you are well – thinking of all of you often and following every move! I can’t imagine you have any free time at all, but in case you do on this trip to the Bay area or another, wondering if you would be willing to spend some time with Mark Zuckerberg. Mark is meeting with people to learn more about next steps for his philanthropy and social action and it’s hard to imagine someone better placed or more experienced than you to help him. As you may know, he’s young and hungry to learn — always in learning mode — and is early in his career when it comes to his philanthropic efforts. He’s begun to think about whether/how he might want to shape advocacy efforts to support his philanthropic priorities and is particularly interested in meeting people who could help him understand how to move the needle on the specific public policy issues he cares most about. He wants to meet folks who can inform his understanding about effective political operations to advance public policy goals on social oriented objectives (like immigration, education or basic scientific research). In case you have time on any trip, Andrea can schedule. And if it has to wait until after the campaign, we will all understand. Sheryl

[Hazaer]

(05-30-2014 12:52 PM)jariel Wrote:  

Quote:

Mark Zuckerberg met his wife Priscilla Chan in college at a fraternity party. They were both in line for the bathroom.

Zuckerberg then took her on a date. Chan recalled the line he dropped on her to "Today's" Savannah Guthrie:

"On our first date, he told me that he'd rather go on a date with me than finish his take-home midterm," she said.

Chan, who was studious and got voted "class genius" in high school, says " the type-A first child in me was appalled."

When they met, Chan says Zuckerberg thought he might get kicked out of school for a prank he pulled (the prank was likely "Face Mash," a hot-or-not for students on campus), so she thought he was kind of a slacker.

Apparently, she got over it. The pair got married right after Facebook went public.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/mark-zucke...56764.html

She knew she was dating up before his opener or his money.