Our goal is not to build a platform; it's to be cross all of them.
“Our goal is not to build a platform; it's to be cross all of them.”
— Mark Zuckerberg · Cross
The World Motivation
Our goal is not to build a platform; it's to be cross all of them.
“Our goal is not to build a platform; it's to be cross all of them.”
— Mark Zuckerberg · Cross
Our goal is not to build a platform; it's to be cross all of them.
If we're trying to build a world-class News Feed and a world-class messaging product and a world-class search product and a world-class ad system, and invent virtual reality and build drones, I can't write every line of code. I can't write any lines of code.
Now the playbook is we build AI tools to go find these fake accounts, find coordinated networks of inauthentic activity, and take them down; we make it much harder for anyone to advertise in ways that they shouldn't be.
When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don't want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren't. There are pranks, IMs.
Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.
I'm like a cross between Bettie Page and Lady Miss Kier but a guy.
To cross the line for the team, to have an impact on winning the game - that's why I play this game.
I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make a life, and how I could cross what is kind of trivialized as a domestic novel with a novel of ideas, a philosophical novel.
I feel, in 2015, when we see human beings and children dying to cross the ocean, trying to find safety, something more must be done to help them because refugees are just like me and you.