The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Mark Zuckerberg embodies The Visionary through the sheer reach of his thesis, that smart glasses will displace the smartphone as humanity's primary computing platform and carry personal superintelligence. What distinguishes the reading is coherence, hardware design principles, neural interfaces, AI model strategy, and social behaviour woven into one arc rather than a list of bets.
“I think at that time too, Snapchat came last after Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, like you name it, all of those services had come first. And so I think the idea that, and that was still at the time when people believed that network effects meant that you couldn't compete, right?”
“Oh my goodness. I don't know. They might all have different perspectives because I really try to like bring out the best in our team members by showing different parts of myself. I'm not the same leader to every individual. That would be terrible.”
“You know, you learn a lot, I think, growing a business and really understanding how people do business. And I think it shows you a lot about the world.”
“At that point before we had scaled to a lot of thousands of people, I think we could have been much more clear on the culture, the kind of smart creative piece, and really embedded that in the team prior to scaling.”
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