Zuckerberg '05 talk fascinating in hindsight

Zuckerberg ‘05 talk fascinating in hindsight

Thanks so much, Matt Koidin, for tipping me off to Zuckerberg’s talk at Stanford from 2005 (opens iTMS).

The points I found most interesting were:

His quote that “Language is an inefficient form information transfer”, and as a result he encourages community at his company to fill the gaps in communication
He got excited about another idea after he’d coded Facebook and had it up for a while. He almost ditched Facebook. His idea was a web app that scraped AIM for away messages. This was the genesis for Twitter (and Facebook status updates), and he not only articulated the value of such a site back in ‘05 (before Twitter was created), but believed it had nearly as much inherent value as Facebook. It’s hard to overstate how prescient was.
When asked why he was uniquely qualified to lead Facebook, he detailed his programming credentials, then said “In terms of management, though, I have no idea what I’m doing.”