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You can only build Facebook/Meta if you have the idea that people having the right to express themselves is a good thing

Voice + Connection = Opportunit.

The challenging thing with free speech is that there is a line, the thing that everyone disagrees on is the definition of real harm...

Think about what you’re excited about for the future. Always keep sight of things that bring you joy

Surround yourself with people you want to be like. Mark only hires people that he could see himself working for in an alternate universe.

This advice expands to your friends and relati...

How do you replicate presence?

Mark says Meta wants to make the most human thing possible: visual presence, spatial audio, temperature, olfactory system, touch, etc.

Meetings over Zoom are a great counter-example to some of the goals at Meta

Many Meta product elements are develo...

An accurate characterization would have been that teens using Instagram are generally positive for their mental health, but of course, that was not the narrative that came out. Mark argues that other tech companies don’t even bother to perform the research

They want to do the research to im...

What grabs someone’s attention in the near term is not going to grab it over the long term.

Making a user angry isn’t going to retain that user, Facebook doesn’t have an incentive to do this. Products are not just their function and utility, it’s their feeling.

Subscription products c...