the people they care about an

you make it so they can express new things about

themselves are

in communication with other people who take care about

than you just open up all these new possibilities to make it to people can

stay connected in ways vacant before they can

learn about new things whether it's

events there happen in the world tour

abode organizing things or learn about new products are new movies or music

that they wanna listen to

uh... is it opens up a lot of new possibility when you can keep

all these connections open to that to the people you care about so

obviously a big part of our mission

connecting all these different people on the world an

um... one of the things that we are really proud of is that

now eight hundred million people around the world are using facebook

every month and perhaps even

even crazier aidid's mind blowing from from my perspective but um... more than

half a billion people

use facebook everyday

yeah i i think those are all just coercion the needs and until three spoke

there wasn't

agree tool for doing that but

i think that a lot of that

and building up was the last five years i think the next five years

is gonna be about okay now you're connected to all these people

now you can have a better music listening experience you can have a

better movie watching experience you can

see we're friends a reading and learn what news uh... you should read first

uh...

all these things i think they're gonna are gonna get better and

that's

that's the thing that i must accept for the next five years and

if we do well i think fighter shock people really get a look back

and say wow over the last five years all these products in all gotten better

because i'm not doing this stuff alone and doing it with my friends

that social media's role as maybe

overblown in that

and the way that i think about is that

if people want change

they will find a way to get that change right so

whatever technology they may or may not have used

was neither a necessary nor sufficient case for forgetting to the outcome of a

got to

but having people who want to change what so

i i hope that

uh... face book and

other internet technologies

were able to tell people just like we we hope that they help them communicate

organized whatever they want to a personal day but you know that i don't i

don't pretend that in a face book didn't exist that fits the swim impossible of

course it

by literally

coated face book in my dorm from launch it from a dorm room

uh... original server for eighty five dollars a month and i find it by putting

and outside and we find ever since but putting ads on the side laid right then

but literally just starting small and growing it

so i think you need two things one is

the ability to have engineers rat ban

and educate

engineers who can just try out their own ideas that and the second is the ability

to try out their own ideas right in

and the freedom to do that an the u_s_ i think

historically has been extremely good at both we've led in education

and we've led in and freedom in supporting people trying risky things

uh... we have this culture where

we place a

a really big premium on moving quickly

one of the big here is that i had about dot

all technology companies and probably all companies

to slow down dramatically as they grow

but if we can focus at every step along the way and moving quicker

then you know maybe when where

whom were around twenty five hundred earth three thousand people now

you may be we we moved as quickly as

your company that only has five hundred people right because we've invested so

much in

in building up e infrastructure and tools wilson culture that tells people

take risks in try things out and

i think that that ability to uh... to build stuff quicker

uh... will be a big advantage for us and will help us build better products of a

long term

we really are focused

on users first and for the long term right we believe that if we

though the product where people can connect and to express all the things

that they want about themselves

that over the very long-term will

will have a lot of people

doing that because that's a course human thing where people want to do that

it'll be very active in

will have opportunities to sell advertising and do all these things

build agree business but none of that is the is the leading thing that were

pushing for

or pushing for is that his mission we think that if we succeed or not they

want to build a great business

if tom

icelanders the score part of people

within one or two sparse things about themselves so the question isn't what do

we want to know about people it's

what do people want to tell about themselves

one of the the the court things that first of all of this is that

i think that

proved this point still the vast majority of people

don't want to share everything

joins washer anything went with with everyone publicly

if you give people tools that they can share with

just their friends or

just one group of friends people

due to learning process to where

when when social networks were first ramping up on the web

some people shared few things to probably but i think that

that's park the reason why i think this because groan as i think they spoke

largely existed

after that difference during the my space is a very of

the social web

at a point where people were already sophisticated enough to real estate you

know i wanna share different things with different people

of any use these parts the controls the feast because given me that this was

really the first company

but his biggest bilbies controls

so that you can share things with chester friends or can

sure vacation photos from my family deficient just family if i want her i

can do all these stupid things and i think that's one big enablers the real

question

for me is

two people

have the tools that they needed

in order to make those decisions well ban

i think that

it's actually really important that face book continually

makes it easier and easier to make those decisions because the demographics of

people who are using face book are changing as well try we started off with

these people in college right for you

use computers every single day

and now

units were up to

eight hundred million plus users

we have people using this site

who it's one of the only things that they do on a computer and maybe they're

not

computer savvy redder they don't

have they don't spend a lot of time trying to figure out

approxi control so what we've done

in the last year's we made it so anytime you go to share anything

the president roles now right there and it says

exactly here to share with

uh... if if you're gonna be shown publicly there's a little globin it says

the word public in

between we share with friends there's

this icon of the few people in it in says the worst friends you can just

click and you can change that really easily every time you post anything

back we're getting started seven years ago i don't know if that was necessary

because

college students and early adopter tech folks

just have this intuitive understanding of how the service worked but now

i think that

the boundaries it's getting

more and more important to be increasingly clear and give people those

controls

enom that's or trying to do and i don't think we're the and i think we're gonna

need to keep on making it easier and easier but that's our mission right and

we we have to do that because

not if people

feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things then

then were failing and we're making it so they can share a lot of stuff that they

want to

and we're trying to build products for everyone in the world

you don't want to get isolated to do that

we have a very open culture at the company where

we foster a lot of interaction between

not just me and people but between everyone else and it's an it's an open

floorplan people have these desks where

no one really has an office uh... niver room where andy with people but it has

all class of everyone can see insurance see what's going on

how much think i think that

elections really connected to the mission of the company

i think that more

flow of information you go to stay connected to more people

makes people more effective this people uh... man

and that's true

socially it makes you have more fun credited it feels better to be more

connected to it all these people you have a richer life

how something in terms of during work

and terms of learning and evolving as a person

you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives and when you're

when you're more connected have more of a flow for people so

hello i think that that's really good i mean we we are really try to lift the

mission of the company

antibody that for the company

and keep everything else in my life extremely except

inability thinkin in some ways is more is more competitive and certainly is

is trying to build

their own little version of placement but um...

you know when when i look at amazon apple

and i see companies who were extremely aligned us britannia

uh... and

we have a lot of conversations with people at both companies

i'm just trying to

figure out ways that we can do more together and there's just a lot of

perception there and i mean i can't think of an apple product renowned zon

product if if apple or google wants

to build a product

uh... they typically go build

bratwurst

if face book wants to make it so that

you know we were culpa rethink the way the people listen to music or watch

movies

when we do we build a platform on top of which people cannot can act

and we enable

all these different companies dozens of companies to plug and i'm companies that

are big companies computer for small companies things they don't even exist

buying a company or sony company is necessarily a good or bad thing

actions of the key thing we need to realize is that

when you go through

a transaction like that

what you are changes

uh... if you're now owned by someone else

your goals are going to

your quickly or over time become their goals right so they're actually

but a lot of compelling reasons why someone would sell a company

and why would advance their mission

i'm i think for for example you chip might have been a good uh...

edited version of this artwork i mean they had this huge expanses in google

fun division has grown and that's that's a different i think there are really

good product

um... maybe it's it's hard to tell blending along the acquisitions that we

make it face book

you we we look it great entrepreneurs other were building things

and often

the acquisitions are given to him

to really by their compare what they're doing it's to get

the really told to keep you out there trying to build something cool and so

you know

if you join face book you could work on this completely different problem isn't