I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I'm generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we're providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we're doing so well on so many of these things. I think it's important to have gratitude for that.
We want to make it so that anyone, anywhere - a child growing up in rural India who never had a computer - can go to a store, get a phone, get online, and get access to all of the same things that you and I appreciate about the Internet.
About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.
The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.
Our goal is not to build a platform; it's to be cross all of them.
I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It's a pretty good test.
A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
When most people ask about a business growing, what they really mean is growing revenue, not just growing the number of people using a service. Traditional businesses would view people using your service that you don't make money from as a cost.
My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.
I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.
If you're always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.
You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.
The thing that's been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is - I think then, and I think now - that if we didn't do this, someone else would have done it.
It used to be the case, like you'd switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn't keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.
The main Facebook usage is so big. About 20 percent of the time people spend on their phone is on Facebook.
By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.
