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can you give me 3 interesting question Ben asked Mark

Here are 3 interesting questions Ben asked Mark during the interview:

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Do you have a reasonable framework at this point for like, okay, here's the stuff where I feel like we actually do want to take responsibility for it, and here's the stuff. We're like, no, that's not our fault.

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If you were to be self-critical of your own company, of your own creation, of all the criticisms that have happened over the years, which do you believe is the most legitimate and why?

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So I'm building to this question of, uh, to you, is product creation an act of invention or discovery?

These questions delve into Zuckerberg's decision-making process, self-reflection on the company's challenges, and his philosophy on product development, making them particularly interesting and insightful.

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Can you expand question number 2 with Mark’s answer?

Certainly. Here's the expanded question and Mark's answer:

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If you were to be self-critical of your own company, of your own creation, of all the criticisms that have happened over the years, which do you believe is the most legitimate and why? I mean, there's so many things that we've messed up, that there are many criticisms that are legitimate. Um. But if that was a year and a half mistake, I think one of the things I reflect on over the last ten years or so was, you know, the political environment just changed dramatically, right? It's like before 2016, there was like not a month that went by, except for maybe this IPO period where the sentiment about the company was anything but positive. And then after 2016, after the election, basically there was not a month for a while where the sentiment about the company was positive. And we I think so much of this stuff is correctly understanding your place in the world and in history. And so I think, you know, we talked about before how it's like I think we understood that we are a technology company and that you have to be a technology company to build this kind of thing. I think we understood that we're not a social network company. We're a human connection company and that will take different forms over time. The political environment, I think I didn't have much sophistication around, and I think I just fundamentally misdiagnosed the problem. So I think that there was this basic challenge and there were a lot of things. I don't want to simplify this too much. I mean, there were a lot of things that we did wrong. There were some things that we did right. But I think one of the things that I look back on and regret is, um, I think we accepted other people's view of some of the things that they were asserting that we were doing wrong or were responsible for that. I don't actually think we were. And now that's it's, um, there are a lot of things we did mess up and we needed to fix. But I think that there's this view where when you're a company and someone says that there's an issue. I think the right instinct is to take ownership for it. Right? Say like, okay, like maybe. Maybe it's not. Like maybe it's not all our thing, but we're going to fully own this problem. We're going to take responsibility for it. We're going to fix it. But when it's a political problem, I actually think a lot of the time, sometimes there are people who are operating in good faith who are identifying a problem that wants something to be fixed, and there are people who are just looking for someone to blame. And I think to some degree, if you if you take responsibility for things because you think it's a corporate crisis, not a political crisis, and your view is like, okay, I'm like, I'm going to take responsibility for all of this stuff. Like people are basically like, like blaming social media and the tech industry for like all these different things in society. And if we're saying, okay, we're going to really like do our part to go fixes like this stuff. I know there were a bunch of people who just took that and were like, oh, you're taking responsibility for that. Let me like kick you for more stuff. And and honestly, I think we should have been firmer about and clearer about which of the things we actually felt like we had a part in and which ones we didn't. And my guess is if the IPO was a year and a half mistake, I think that the political miscalculation was a 20 year mistake. And so it started in 2016. And I think that we have been working super hard to fix a lot of issues and to figure out kind of what the right tone is for navigating what is a very kind of fraught political dynamic across both the country and multiplied across all these places around the world. And I think we've sort of found our footing on like, like what the principles are like, where we think we need to improve stuff, but where, you know, where people make allegations about the impact of the tech industry or our company, which are just not founded in any fact that I think we should push back on harder. And I think it's going to take another ten years or so for us to kind of fully work through that cycle before our brand. And all of that is back to kind of the place that it maybe could have been if I hadn't messed that up in the first place. So but look, in the grand scheme of things, 20 years isn't that bad either. And we'll get through it and I think we'll come out stronger. But I do think that is one of the kind of more interesting critiques that I think people get. And we get critiques on both sides on that. There are people who don't think we've taken enough responsibility. But but I think certainly there's one line of critique which is, you know, you kind of bought into too much of the stuff that you shouldn't have. And, um, yeah, I think it's going to take us a long time to dig out of that.

Can you add to it, the beginning where they introduce Mark?

Certainly. Here's the introduction of Mark followed by the expanded question and answer:

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