more. the story of facebook booe c beacon is when they got really dark. one of the darkest moments of my time there. facebook s head of public relations brapdy barker was dealing with the backlash. we pushed the boundaries and we pushed them too far. the company debated how they handled the outrage. there are just different points of view within the company that ranged from the engineers that felt stronger, so the sales reps that felt new and unique, to privatety advocates. what was mark saying at the time? i think he was among the people that were initially advocating to keep it with the belief that there might be a way to keep it and create it so that some people could use it if they
oh, come on. saved by the bell. so you get to take a peek, but how did you feel? it was tough. you don t need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this, if you were the inventors of facebook, you would have invented facebook. i wish that no one made a movie about me while i was so young. it was so early in the journey and it mischaracterized so much about what we re doing, but it set the first impression for how a lot of people think of me and the company. that is unfortunate, they made up a lot of stuff. the idea that we started the company because we re trying to make money or trying to find a girlfriend or something like that, i was dating priscilla at the time. wait, have you two not met? no, no. awkward. while we tried to laugh off the movie facebook s privacy policy is the issue here.
facebook is in transition. many executives have left over rumored disputes about the company s direction, including the founders of instagram and what s app. amidst all the controversy, there s been speculation. should zuckerberg, who is c.e.o., chairman and the majority shareholder in facebook, step aside? that s not the plan. that s not the plan. would anything change that? i mean, eventually over time. i m not going to be doing this forever. many of the employees you ve met in the show have left. hopefully it will give you kind of a pretty good understanding including alex stamos who is now teaching future entrepreneurs at stanford university. doing better means doing things like this, bringing people together to think about these problems early and not be reactive. having a real diverse set of people work on these work in tech and silicon valley is going to be critical for that. randy zuckerberg focuses on
talking about what we knew right after the election. probably even before the election. obviously there are internal miss dm miscommunications. miscommunication that s seemingly came to a head in the board room in the fall of 2017 where stamp os revealed the company didn t yet have a grasp on russian influence. that came as a surprise to cheryl. i had not briefed her on what i was going to tell the board. she got mad at me and in the end the real root responsibility for why these things happened was not in cheryl s control. whose control was it in? facebook wasn t measuring the bigger impact and thinking about the ways people could twist it and be misused. in the end that was mark s responsibility. what was your feeling kind of walking away from facebook? the truth is there is a bit of a game of thrones culture among the executives. one of the problems about having a tight-knit set of people making all these decisions, if you keep the same people in the
grow as facebook grew. they were gearing up for the massively anticipated ipo. is facebook living up to the hype? smartphones were on the rise, and facebook wasn t a mobile first app. it was easier to access it from a computer. so zuckerberg did something atypical. he bought a company during what is called the quite period. why the need to buy companies? it was a transition for mobile phones being the way we use technology. instagram was one of the mouse downloaded applications. he went out and put a hue huge amount of money on the table and sapeople said he was cad. a billion dollars, right?