The life of Mark Zuckerberg

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He founded Facebook out of his college dorm. Today, he's one the most powerful people in the world, but that comes at a price...   This is the life of Mark Zuckerberg.

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00:00When we first launched we were hoping for you know, maybe 400 500 people and now we're at a hundred thousand people

00:05So who knows where we're going next?

00:19Right, what we're trying to do is have enough revenue to sustain ourselves, but we're not trying to optimize for profit

00:31We

00:32Were so into Star Wars, you know

00:35We were that super geeky nerdy household and we decided we were going to create our own Star Wars trilogy

00:42but a parody version

01:00Okay, we are now focusing on the newest or one of the newest members of Harvard's class of 2006

01:20Put up pictures of two women and decide which one was the better more attractive of the two, is that right?

01:25A congressman that is an accurate description of the prank website that I made when I was

01:31Okay

01:51On college campuses, it's called the Facebook trance

01:56Spending too much time in front of your computer glued to a website called the facebook.com

02:19We're really just focused on our mission just helping people share information

02:23We believe really deeply that if people are sharing more then the world will be a more open place where people can understand

02:30What's going on with the people around them?

02:36Are you buying things are you buying things that you wouldn't know?

02:40I have a little like one bedroom apartment with a mattress on the floor. That's the that's where I live

02:53You

03:15Is an alternative to Facebook in the private sector

03:19Yes, senator, the average American uses eight different apps

03:22I could communicate with their friends and stay in touch with people

03:25Okay ranging from Texas Twitter the same as what you do. It overlaps with a portion. You don't think you have a monopoly

03:33It certainly doesn't feel like that to me

03:49You

03:54Setting audacious goals is important and we need to think about beyond what's possible

04:02You

04:17We didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and I'm sorry

04:25You announced recently that the official policy of Facebook now allows politicians to pay to spread disinformation

04:31You

05:02You

05:04Facebook consistently resolved these conflicts in favor of its own profits

05:09The result has been more division more harm more lies more threats and more combat

05:26I started Facebook. I run it and I'm responsible for what happens here

05:31You

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