Zuckerberg has “f--king destroyed this town,” says one V.C. “Any time there’s an inkling of innovation here, any time a new idea comes up, Zuckerberg either buys it and shuts it down, or copies it and shuts it down anyway”
to rethink his stance on allowing fabricated political ads to be hosted on the site, Zuckerberg had to have the last word. HeThese moments may be cathartic for Zuckerberg, but they don’t play well in the court of public opinion. Another investor described Zuckerberg and Facebook in their current instantiation as “frightening.” Still another said Zuckerberg shows “no self-awareness.
In Silicon Valley, as in life, there can be second acts. If you were to pick up a newspaper two decades ago, you would have inevitably come across a story aboutthat portrayed the youngish Microsoft cofounder in much the same light as Zuckerberg: flouting regulators and trouncing any competitors who got in his way. Like Zuckerberg, Gates showed contempt for Congress, and went to the mat to fight the U.S. government when Microsoft was accused ofin 1998. But then something about Gates changed.
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