Stanford University.
>> I remember this one conversation right after
I'd
launched the first version of Facebook at
Harvard.
It was like, you know, this is great that
we have
this community that now people can connect
within our little school,.
But clearly one day someone is going to
build this for the world.
So one of the big surprises for me looking
back on
this ten years later is that it actually
was us, you
know who, who kind of played some role in,
in kind
of leading this and developing some of
this infrastructure for the world.
I think a lot of this, what it just comes
down to is like doing things that
you believe in and pushing really hard and
some number of those will end up working
out.
I think that, that we sometimes say great
entrepreneurs see the glass as half full
rather than half empty and they're willing
to try to fix the rest of it.
And I think you gotta have that vision.
You gotta have that commitment.
So in this very tech centric world that's
emerged here I found
it interesting to hear about your
interests in the humanities and the
classics.
How do we think about their role and the
importance of them in this world
where everybody wants to start the next
Facebook
or the next Google or the next Snapchat?
>> I actually wasn't a Computer Science
major, I was
a Psychology major and I just took mostly
Computer Science classes.
You know, I think a lot of times
interesting
work is done at the intersection between
these disciplines.
>> Hm.
Right, so.
>> Absolutely.
>> You know, technology is a tool that you
can use to solve different
problems but you know one of the things
that I think you learn in
college is that often picking what problem
to go try and solve is a
much bigger and more important challenge
than even being able to solve the problem.
>> Facebook and the whole social media
thing has been such a big part of
sort of the tech revolution of the last
decade or so since you've started the
company.
If you look out ten, twenty years, what's
going to be
the new, new thing ten or twenty years
from now?
>> One of the things I think over a five
or ten period will definitely exist is
just like the ability to ask more
questions than
you can really reasonably ask a search
engine today.
Something that we're pretty actively
working
on, because we really want Facebook
and this whole kind of movement of social
apps to not just be
about kind of sharing moments in the day
to day, but also
like really utility and being able to
learn and, and solve interesting problems.
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entire united
states where you can get a nerd nation
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Please join me in thanking Mark for
spending his time with us.
>> Thank you.
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