Finding your purpose isn’t enough. the challenge for our generation is creating a world where everyone has a sense of purpose.
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.
I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
I started the site when I was 19. I didn’t know much about business back then.
My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.
A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.
My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.
I think humans are just hard-wired to process people’s faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.
The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.
The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.
The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.
By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn’t had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.
The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It’s just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.