Ben Gilbert: belief

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…It’s funny. As we were preparing to interview Mark at Chase Center last month, this was the question that we kept asking people. In some ways, I think it’s a little bit of a Rorschach test. Everybody’s answer was different, and it was always what they think is the most important thing. I think my answer for this is going to be a version of Mark as the answer. It goes back to Adam D’Angelo’s Friendster testimonial about him being way too lucky and then realizing it’s not luck at all. I think it is that, as Adam was telling to me as he reflected on this, it’s a very specific way of carrying yourself through the world where you don’t hold too tightly to the path you’re on. Obviously, Mark is incredibly driven to the goal of connecting all the people in the world and doing that through Meta, but he’s very, very open and flexible to the exact path that it’s going to take to get there. That combination I think has led over and over and over again to these threats emerging and Mark and the whole team there at Meta saying, okay, what is the way that we can neutralize this threat or defeat it? And we are open to anything on that front. And I think they are open to being whatever they need to be to make that happen. I think Meta might look extremely different 20 years from now than it is today, almost unrecognizably because this company moves like water in response to whatever the new shape of the world is. Hell, after trying Orion, I think there’s a very plausible reality five years from now where this company looks very, very different than it does today.…

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