Facebook, 60 minutes, lesley stahl, mark zuckerburg

$4 billion doesn't do much for Zuck's wardrobe

With his 27 percent stake in the company, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is worth about $4 billion. (In an interview aired last night, 60 Minutes put the figure at $3 billion, but the venerable show is — how to put this delicately? — incorrect.) So what does a billion here, a billion there do for the 23-year old founder? Not much to improve his wardrobe, apparently. "You don't look like you're buying expensive clothes," interviewer Lesley Stahl tells him. Ouch. And it sounds like that paper wealth isn't doing much to improve Zuck's housing situation, either.

"I have a little one-bedroom apartment with a mattress on the floor," he told Stahl.

OK, so maybe we got it wrong when in early December we reported Zuckerberg cashed out. But Zuck's taste in Italian leather loafers — his only upscale apparel — tells us maybe he wishes we'd gotten it right.

10:40 AM on Mon Jan 14 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
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Ted Dziuba at 11:02 AM on 01/14/08
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Dude, shit. We have seen the interview. Do you have any thoughts of your own on the matter?
Alaska Miller at 11:13 AM on 01/14/08
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That's 4 posts on one 60 Minutes segment. That's amazing.
bgj at 11:29 AM on 01/14/08
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I like turtles.
BLAKELEY at 11:59 AM on 01/14/08
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Looks like he's taking a page out of Jakob Lodwick's lookbook.
macbeach at 11:59 AM on 01/14/08
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Well, I never watch 60 Minutes, TV in general, but if I keep checking back here I will have seen the entire interview!

Note to self: Find something better to do pronto.
benkessler at 01:37 PM on 01/14/08
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He might not be buying nice clothes (although he is rocking a pair of Uggs mocs now) but they did show him using a Lenovo ThinkPad Reserve which is a $5,000 turd of a computer.
octopus at 02:37 PM on 01/14/08
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since when did anyone give a flying toss about what silicon valley folks wear? if he'd worn a suit and tie, now that might've been newsworthy..
mandarin at 03:00 PM on 01/14/08
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In the Valley, no one dresses up anymore. The only ones who do are car and real estate salesmen....
The Brain at 03:34 PM on 01/14/08
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I can't believe you guys missed it. That's Ben Kenobi's robe. And he put a fucking zipper on it.
ScalaWag at 08:15 PM on 01/14/08
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@The Brain: These aren't the Beacons you are looking for!
vulturesquadron at 11:52 PM on 01/14/08
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@mandarin: "Dressing up" is something a 5 year old does. Wearing interesting and/or appropriate clothes is something adults do.
Fetterman_07 at 03:56 PM on 01/15/08
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this guys is scripted by PR
DanLar75 at 03:48 PM on 04/14/08
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No shit hes Scripted, either hes scripted or retarded!

"I still sleep on a matress in my 1br apartment" ok, and you are a billionaire stupid boy?