Becoming a billionaire really does seem to get to people’s heads, the younger the billionaire the worse.
Zuck is being completely reckless, burning through hundreds of billions of dollars hopping on every futuristic idea, and doesn’t listen to anyone’s fair criticism anymore.
He probably even thinks he is some great visionary and everyone else is holding him back, and that’s why they work for him, not the opposite.
In a sane socioeconomic system we wouldn’t people get this rich and powerful for their own good, especially young people.
But it is better he spends the money than hoarding it.
How much money did he make? Not if it failed, maybe that didn’t matter. How many got fired because of it
Is that his real name!? I thought it is Fart Fuckerber
At least he didn’t have to spend all that money on higher salaries. How you boys liking the rocket game? I’m thinking about blowing a few dozen billion on that, just as a hobby. Not trying to make money off it.
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving bot.
Marky Zuckerberg may run Meta into the ground however the fucker will still be rich.
Which does piss me off, BUT the world would be better if we took Meta, Reddit, Twitter, and all the other social media giants and gave them the Ole Yeller treatment
Outside of Facebook what has he been responsible for that didn’t blow up in his face? The only other things Meta has that aren’t thus far miserable failures are Instagram and Whatsapp, both of which they bought.
And Google built a search engine. Everything else they’ve tried to build has failed, other than maybe Gmail which was just a Yahoo Mail / Hotmail clone. Everything else that has been successful has been an acquisition: Maps (Keyhole), YouTube, Android, Google Photos (Picasa), Doubleclick…
We really need robust antitrust. How many of these acquisitions would be thriving companies in their own right, competing with the big tech giants if the tech giants hadn’t been able to absorb them.
Google+ is an example of what happens when companies have to compete instead of acquiring other companies. Google poured billions into it and it flopped completely.
Reminder that he stole Facebook
Oculus perhaps, although also bought
And immediately blew it up after buying it.
What is the state of VR? Still super niche?
If you have to ask, you probably know the answer :)
always will be. I just don’t afford a couple hundred grand for the “bigger living room” optional accessory
amazing how many missteps you can make as a ceo these days without consequences…
Tells you a lot about success and merit. He has absolutely no fucking clue what’s going to be successful and what won’t. He was just super lucky with Facebook.
The reason he’s a billionaire is because the system is totally fucked up. He’s a bug, not a feature.
It’s what happens when you own a controlling share of the company. You can freely run it into the ground.
Such a punchable face. He and his wife are evil people. Stains on humanity.
It wont matter four shits to him, its all just playthings
I keep asking myself why he’s still there. Even Bezos retired at this point.
The only way to get him out of the CEO chair is for him to retire or die. He never gave up voting control during the IPO and controls more than 50% of the vote.
Gods I wish this was literal.
Has he picked a single winner since he stole the idea for facebook?
Probably only when he bought out Instagram and Whatsapp, that’s all I can think of
He bought 100 lottery tickets through acquisition (probably more) and 2 of them hit.
Those were already popular before he bought them, and then he made them worse.
…but no less popular
I feel like Oculus improved under them, but yeah - an exception proves the rule.
I don’t know if “improved” is as accurate as “accelerated” in that case. Oculus was already doing cool stuff they just needed the resources to really get going, and now Meta is all up in it so the service kinda blows.
And Oculus
He’s working hard on destroying that one, don’t worry. The quest experience has only gotten worse with every update.
Two other things I don’t use.
I thought he actually stole the source code, not just the idea.
They are automatically putting ppls pictures in image to video ai without permission and advertising it back to them
For real? That is some dystopian Minority Report level advertising right there.
Destroying civilization, and destroying shareholder value.
What is his actual function?
Shining a light on why rich people are the result of inadequacies in the system.
To be one of many examples of how a human can have net negative value?
