He founded Facebook out of his college dorm. Today, he's one the most powerful people in the world, but that comes at a price...
This is the life of Mark Zuckerberg.
This is the life of Mark Zuckerberg.
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00:00When we first launched we were hoping for you know, maybe 400 500 people and now we're at a hundred thousand people
00:05So who knows where we're going next?
00:19Right, what we're trying to do is have enough revenue to sustain ourselves, but we're not trying to optimize for profit
00:31We
00:32Were so into Star Wars, you know
00:35We were that super geeky nerdy household and we decided we were going to create our own Star Wars trilogy
00:42but a parody version
01:00Okay, we are now focusing on the newest or one of the newest members of Harvard's class of 2006
01:20Put up pictures of two women and decide which one was the better more attractive of the two, is that right?
01:25A congressman that is an accurate description of the prank website that I made when I was
01:31Okay
01:51On college campuses, it's called the Facebook trance
01:56Spending too much time in front of your computer glued to a website called the facebook.com
02:19We're really just focused on our mission just helping people share information
02:23We believe really deeply that if people are sharing more then the world will be a more open place where people can understand
02:30What's going on with the people around them?
02:36Are you buying things are you buying things that you wouldn't know?
02:40I have a little like one bedroom apartment with a mattress on the floor. That's the that's where I live
02:53You
03:15Is an alternative to Facebook in the private sector
03:19Yes, senator, the average American uses eight different apps
03:22I could communicate with their friends and stay in touch with people
03:25Okay ranging from Texas Twitter the same as what you do. It overlaps with a portion. You don't think you have a monopoly
03:33It certainly doesn't feel like that to me
03:49You
03:54Setting audacious goals is important and we need to think about beyond what's possible
04:02You
04:17We didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake and I'm sorry
04:25You announced recently that the official policy of Facebook now allows politicians to pay to spread disinformation
04:31You
05:02You
05:04Facebook consistently resolved these conflicts in favor of its own profits
05:09The result has been more division more harm more lies more threats and more combat
05:26I started Facebook. I run it and I'm responsible for what happens here
05:31You