Mark Zuckerberg on Messenger

While our strategy is designed to stand the test of time, our execution and focus must be responsive to the needs of the current moment. Today we see a shift towards social media products serving as “discovery engines.” We’re sharing an updated articulation of our near-term priorities that are aimed at strengthening the Facebook discovery engine. T... See more

Mark Zuckerberg in 2019 “Today we already see that private messaging, ephemeral stories, and small groups are by far the fastest growing areas of online communication”

This is a very deep memo about VR and AR that was sent by Zuckerberg in 2015.In this memo, he shared that VR / AR was going to be the biggest technology ten years from then (by 2025). Mark mentions their urgency about developing a brand, financial, and strategic goal in order to not be left behind by Google and Apple which have an advantage because... See more

Mark: Centralized systems, if you are a serious company, can allow you to train systems that will do much better personalization.

“One lesson that I've taken from running Facebook over the last five years is that I used to think about our job as building products that people love to use. But you know, now I think we just need to have a more holistic view of this. It's not enough to just build something that people like to use. It has to create opportunity and broadly be a pos... See more

“If it’s obvious to everyone that we’re going to be able to do each of the things that we’re working on, then I don’t feel like we’re making the most of what we need to do.”

So I think Facebook runs into the challenge of, "Okay, we're trying to shift people into stories, we're trying to shift people into the marketplace, we're trying to get people to use messenger and build this WeChat-like ecosystem within our messaging product. But our Feed makes so much money, it's on autopilot right now, so how do we make that tran... See more