The New Yorker: Restore the real version of Zuckerberg

The frenzy for growth has led to the "big curse": every day, more than 1 billion posts are posted on Facebook.

Zuckerberg walks to the crossroads, Great or good? It connects 2.2 billion people around the world, it dissolves barriers, classes, dissent, but at the same time, it is suspected of being involved in the rigging of presidential elections, it is an accomplice to riots and riots, and it is suffering from antitrust questions and moral questions.

Since 2011, Zuckerberg has lived in a century-old whiteboard house near Crescent Park in California. The residential complex is surrounded by lush oak trees and is not far from Stanford University.

Since starting Facebook in 2004, his uniforms have been upgraded from hoodies and flip-flops to his current outfits, gray sweaters, indigo jeans and black Nike shoes.

Dick Costolo, the former CEO of Twitter, told me, "He's a ruthless execution machine, and if he decides to come and compete with you, you're going to get beaten." ”

Over the years, Zuckerberg has frequently used the word "Domination" at Facebook conferences.

He loves to take control of the company; In addition to serving as chairman and CEO, he controls about sixty percent of shareholder voting, which relies on preferred stock with ten times the voting power of ordinary stock. His personal fortune has grown to more than $60 billion.

During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, it was already accused of spreading false information and causing social unrest.

Until now, Facebook has been under investigation by the FBI, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission.

Critics still see Facebook as a company blinded by greed and profits.

In Zuckerberg's park, he was the king. Executives were overly appreciative of him, and employees were upset that he was being misunderstood by the public.

Zuckerberg is red-green and blind, and he chose blue because he could see it most clearly.

The historical Augustus, who established his power at the age of eighteen, conquered Egypt, northern Spain and much of Central Europe, and transformed Rome from a republic into an empire.

In 2012, Zuckerberg and Chen spent their honeymoon in Rome. He later said, "My wife teased me, saying she thought there were three people during the honeymoon: me, her, and Augustus. All the photographs are different sculptures of Augustus. The couple even named their second daughter August.

Zuckerberg carried two sets of business cards. One reads "I'm the CEO." whore! ”

Facebook has a pirate motto, "move fast and break things," which marks the idea that it's best to be flawed first rather than be careful and perfect.

In 2012, Zuckerberg paid $1 billion for Instagram, and the company had only 13 employees at the time.

As an engineer, Zuckerberg never wanted to get into content.

Zuckerberg's comics are an autonomous machine that doesn't care about the human aspects of his work. The truth is another matter: like Augustus, he traded trade-offs for a state of peace.

Between rhetoric and truth, he chose rhetoric. Between speed and perfection, he chose speed. Between scale and security, he chose scale.

A long time ago, he succeeded in making Facebook Great. The challenge now is to make it good.

In the latest issue of The New Yorker, an in-depth report on Facebook and Zuckerberg by journalist Ou Yiwen was published, translated and edited by Han Wei of the News Rangers (WeChat ID: media007), and the full text is linked as follows

https://xw.qq.com/tech/20181007001813/TEC2018100700181300