Zuckerberg: King of the Metaverse on Sky review - sure, it's terrifying, but you knew that right?
by Simon Hunt
Jan 11, 2024
3 minutes
Mark Zuckerberg sits in his dorm room messaging his friend. It is 2004, and the 19-year-old has just finished creating a website for fellow Harvard students to upload public profiles. Zuck boasts that he has collected over 4,000 personal emails, pictures and addresses using his new creation.
“What? How’d you manage that one?” the friend asks.
“People just submitted it. I don’t know why. They ‘trust me’. Dumb f***s.”
It is the early days of, and Zuckerberg’s casual admission about his business model – collect everyone’s data and to hell with the users – sets the stage for how the company would evolve over the next two decades.
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