A young Mark Zuckerberg's early mistake

As he testifies before Congress, a look back at 60 Minutes' interview with Facebook's founder 10 years ago

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[josephkrol]

"Facebook has yet to figure out how to make money off its huge audience."

They sure figured that out.

[xitheon]

Time is flying, this video looks like something from the 90's

[allisonrogers]

"addictive waste of time" is the most accurate description of FB I've heard.

[thesupergreenjudy]

2008: Are you on Facebook yet?
2022: Are you on Facebook still?

[diodeiva]

Mark: "Is that a question?"

The Social Network portrayal was accurate.

[ikmnqvz]

3:52 he tries so hard not to lick his eyes

[AlgoCurioso]

At least we can all agree that he hasn’t change a bit.

[stalecornchips]

Gotta say knowing he hacked into the Harvard database as a kid to get student information really explains his continuous issues with Facebook and privacy

[jscorpio]

He secretly hacked and stole information from other students at his college, got caught and punished? Interesting. So, we should have seen Facebook's privacy violation practices coming from the beginning.

[MS-]

“We were warned he could be awkward.” 💀

[MarchOnRome]

"you're just staring at me..."

"Is that a question?"

[Noner]

7:05 “Hillary Clinton is hugely unpopular” well some things never change lmao

[benjiboi]

Interviewer: "Your running this huge company"
Mark: "Its not that big"
Market Value: 541 Billion USD

[cytrexo]

2:41 his walking skills was still on pre alpha back then

[lotsofe-mr]

Lady: "Guess what my favorite tv show is?" Mark: "I Cant" 10 years later: "Give me a run down of her top 100 favorite shows that we data mined from her web history"

[drdanoosh]

I worked at a company as a cloud engineer as my first job out of college.

The smartest engineer in that company was 20 years old, the VP of the company would constantly ask him for help, along with everybody else, including me.

That being said, when 60 minutes started roasting Zuckerburg for being a "toddler CEO" in a condescending way, I thought back to that first job. Why does age matter, if a person makes it happen, it happened.

[crevthabeing]

2008: “Facebook is a threat to Google”
2020: “What was she talking about?”

[xsquaredthemusician]

60 minutes literally a decade ahead of the us congress

[cortster]

Her condensending attitude makes Mark actually seem sympathetic. Which is quite the feat.

[haydenmacfarlane]

“Are you changing the way candidates are running for president“. Not sure she saw this coming but man she was spot on