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I really applaud Zuckerberg for positively embracing all the attention that's been shouldered on him, really. I think stuff like this SNL skit or him taking his core team at Facebook to watch "The Social Network" together at a movie theatre just shows tremendous inner strength and maturity on his part. It's great to see him be able to laugh it off and joke about it.

He's come a long way in his public speaking skills too, he was pretty natural and comedic during his talk at Startup School. I think he's only going to get better from this point on too.

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I seriously doubt this was of his own doing, more an indication his PR team is working hard on rebuilding his public image

I seriously doubt Mark is the type to appear on a TV show because the Facebook PR team convinced him to.

Right... his PR team couldn't have possibly told him to take his entire team to go watch "The Social Network" when it came out. Of course his PR team is going to guide him along the way, but it shouldn't discount how serious he is about confronting this stuff -- not for himself, but for the sake of Facebook.

Seriously? I think if someone makes a movie about myself (or my company), I'd be LOLing too, and certainly flattered.

Zuck is also human you know? There's nothing special about him embracing the attention, there's no "tremendous inner strength and maturity on his part".

In the end, he's a hacker and hackers don't care too much about their personal brand or public appearance. Don't you think he would be a better public speaker a long time ago if he actually cared about it? He's not Paris Hilton, his "fame" is not driven by his public apparences.

Zuck is concerned with the future of Facebook, as a company and as a service, far more than all this personal bullshit and his own brand, and I think that's what makes him a good leader irrespective of what anyone might think of his past.

When your company is servicing close to a third of the world's internet population and is actually making an iota of history, I'd like to see you LOL real loud when someone is out there trying to publicly defame you and ruin what you've built.

I know plenty of hackers who are obsessed with their personal brands. Every niche has their celebrities. And in turn, every niche has their Paris Hiltons.

As Sportsguy says, it's all about reps. I'm increasingly impressed but only because I've seen the money put into coaching and seen those guys since they moved to PA. He's learned well, but if your startup grows organically you get to practice (and sweat) all the way up.

And let's be honest, I know some of those guys and am amazed at how they've grown and what they've accomplished. But we're the same generation and we can do so much more. Don't forget, money is for poor people.

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