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When Twitter Meet Facebook, Zuck has no sense of humour.

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"We had to wait on this huge line for lunch," he recalled. "Evan was like 'Aren't you the boss? Can't you like kind of cut the line a little bit here?' And he's like 'That's not how we do things here'."

Well I respect the fact that Mark respected his employees.

Honestly I would have no idea whether that was a joke or not, about cutting the line. I would probably laugh if he said that to me because it's a safer response, Mark went the other direction. I'd like to hear a better example of these solid gold jokes they were throwing at him.

Absolutely.

As a manager you can either see yourself as the grand poobah or as somebody who's there to support the people who are actually doing work. Sounds like Zuckerberg's the latter.

Seems like Mark is damned if does and damned if he doesn't. He even gets bashed for not cutting in line?! lol. Give the man a break, jeez. He's human just like the rest of us.

"Do you want me to close the door or leave it open?", to which Zuckerberg replied, "Yes".

I would guess this is how it happened:

    Stone:  "Do you want me to close the door..."

    Zuck, thinking the question is complete, starts to say:  "Yes."

    Stone adds the unnecessary:  "...or leave it open?"

So maybe Zuck was just thinking too fast. :)

open | closed -> true

:-)

Zuckerberg's response of "Yes" to "Do you want the door open or closed?" seemed humorous enough to me. Stone just didn't get it.

Yeah, it's even arguably a programming joke!

Here's a link to the original interview audio and transcript: http://www.npr.org/2011/07/16/138160765/twitter-co-founder-b...

No need to call Zuck out on that.

Love the star trek references... :)

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