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Gambling <— Zuck is here

This man struck gold exactly once with social media and, rather than being content with his billions, will forever chase that high pursuing the latest fad and drag his company through failure over and over again.

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He has already finished the game and just explores the side quests. He is more than content, he’s way more content than the rest of us.

he is richer than any of us, but he doesn't strike me as someone who is even remotely content.

Those two things are not the same thing.

The parent seems to mean that he is content financially, which is why he can now play around with whatever he feels like and if it costs copious amounts of money to do so who cares?

He will never be generally content, no.

Zuck's a bit more private, but Musk putting his time into moderating Twitter demonstrates some of these people will never be content with finishing the game.

not to mention rage posting dozens of time a day doesn't scream contentedness

But wait, there’s more! Mark is also a big Dana White fan so now you also have Meta AI UFC Fighter Rankings

https://www.mmamania.com/ufc-mma-rankings/452601/ufc-finally...

The guy has zero imagination, I guess. Even Facebook was a stolen and mostly unoriginal idea, it was just executed well for that era. I can only feel sad for him, all the money in the world yet not a single creative or interesting idea to allocate it on. And the unoriginal things it is allocated on end up being pretty bad most of the time.

He's a bit of a wuss though. Not betting it all, just slowly iterating on the next miss, can never be fired. Pretty damn funny actually. Sad if you work there though.

> He's a bit of a wuss though

No no no, didn’t you see the MMA training. He’s a real tough guy. Very masculine and strong.

Okay, imagine if he did, he would've lost everything 4 times

The fact that someone has billions of dollars and still chooses to spend 40-60 hours/week going to the office to work on Facebook seems psychotic. He can do practically anything he wants, and he chooses to work on Facebook. It’s mind bending.

At that level it’s not the luxury hotels and fresh mangoes flown in from Miami that appeals, but the influence to effect outcomes on a global scale. Megalomaniacal more than psychotic.

all he needs to do is put a competent CEO

Agreed that Zuck is not very impressive, but what would another CEO do differently at this point? It's got a ton of money, and they are trying this and that. But the market wouldn't let them sit on a bunch of money either.

1. Rename the company to "Facebook"

2. Spin out the other garbage into different companies.

> rather than being content with his billions, will forever chase that high pursuing the latest fad

He is content with his billions. That is why he can piss it away on stupid ideas now.

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