There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program was this program called Match. People could enter the different courses that they were taking, and see what other courses would be correlated with the courses they are taking.
We know that for every 1 person who get access to the Internet, one new job gets created, and one person gets lifted out of poverty. So in theory, going and connecting everyone on the Internet is a large national and even global priority.
If I could snap my fingers and do one thing in science, I would get more funding for basic science. But the level of funding that needs to be done is not on the order of millions, like the cost of the Breakthrough Prizes. It's billions to tens of billions.
Facebook and Instagram are both really popular with teens, both in the U.S. and globally across the world. I think what you're starting to see is that there are all these different ways that people want to share and communicate.
A frustration I have is that a lot of people increasingly seem to equate an advertising business model with somehow being out of alignment with your customers. I think it's the most ridiculous concept.
Fungsi dari Facebook di dunia adalah memberikan suara kepada orang-orang dan menyebarkan ide dan rasionalisme.
Saat ini, dengan jejaring sosial dan alat lain di Internet, 500 juta orang ini memiliki cara untuk mengatakan apa yang mereka pikirkan dan agar suaranya didengar.
The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.
I remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, 'Maybe someday we'll build a company. This probably isn't it, but one day we will.'
I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I'm generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we're providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we're doing so well on so many of these things. I think it's important to have gratitude for that.
If you grew up, and you never had a computer, and you've never used the Internet, and someone asked you if you wanted to buy a data plan, your response would be 'What's a data plan, and why would I want to use this?'
Saya benar-benar ingin membersihkan hidup saya sehingga saya harus membuat sesedikit mungkin keputusan tentang apapun kecuali bagaimana cara terbaik melayani komunitas ini.
Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn't have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.
Ketika Anda memberikan suara kepada setiap orang dan memberikan kekuatan kepada semua orang, sistem biasanya berakhir di tempat yang sangat bagus. Jadi, apa yang kami pandang sebagai peran kami, adalah memberi orang kekuatan itu.
Ketika saya memulai Facebook dari kamar asrama saya pada tahun 2004, gagasan yang saya dan teman sekamar saya bicarakan sepanjang waktu adalah tentang dunia yang lebih terbuka.