No, he’s just that terrible. Dude hasn’t had a successful original idea. Facebook wasn’t his original idea, and instagram and whatsapp were acquisitions. Everything else failed.
Sounds familiar. Why is this such a pattern with these people? They just keep falling up.
react was pretty cool but that wasn’t his doing, just his $
React sucks. It was built to solve facebook-scale problems that no one else really has.
state and virtual DOM management - there’s a reason it’s widely adopted, but yea I too hate jsx and react’s quirks
IMO virtual DOM was a hacky mistake. Maybe useful when you are trying to do some absolute bullshit but it’s a fundamentally bad idea.
Peter Thiel is the only reason Facebook exists, he was an early angel investor and kept Facebook afloat, the bill had come due, zuck is doing this for Thiel, Thiel needs his data lakes for palantir to usher in his stateless surveillance state.
Honestly I think he’s just… a maximalist (there’s probably a better word for it). Doesn’t know how to be satisfied with immense success and wealth, so he wants to be integral to whatever the next thing is.
It’s like a joke I saw here the other day, about being offered 10 trillion dollars or a chance to flip a coin for 21 trillion dollars, Zuck is flipping that coin again and again. Whether it’s the metaverse or AI, he’s come to terms with taking Ls on the chance to hit it unbelievably rich, even though, frankly, he’s already as rich and influential as could possibly affect a person’s life.
Silicon Valley kind of encourages maximalism. Companies are expected to grow and it is hard to grow beyond the monopoly you’ve built for yourself.
Also, not everyone is willing to take the deal where you go retire with your ballerina wife to go become a wildlife photographer. Some people like being a businessman.
No, he was always an autistic, Aspy weirdo who barely related to normal humans. Now he’s so out of touch he has no idea what society looks like, or wants.
So he’s just flailing randomly, desperately trying to look like he understands what he’s doing, but he’s clearly just throwing expensive wet stuff at the wall, and then throwing lots more money at it because it stuck a little, before finally figuring out it’s just a stain. The good news is, at least he didn’t waste all those billions on higher salaries.
He wants to hang with the big Sociopathic Oligarchs, but he’s obviously in over his head. He’s not a visionary, he bought or stole every successful element of his business, and ALL of his own initiatives have failed.
He’s officially a Loser.
