i'm sure dustin wouldn't remember me, but we were in a few meetings together a couple years back. he's a good guy and smart. however, the spotlight is now shining.... time to put on a little song and dance, or pull a britney.

i really need to finish valleycide...

-mike

babyjesus

Incidentally, I think if Charles Manson had been managing Obama's internet strategy the results would have been very similar. Any one person taking credit for that is kidding themselves.

Rick

Is your sense of character so fragile that valleywag can crack it? If so, you might want to go back to Harvard and see if they have a program in knitting or something else more suited to your sensitivity level.

Rick

tawni

The cap table decides who the founders are not Mark Zuckerburg. I don't believe that FB will be around in 20 years so this question may never have to be answered.

sggrf

michaellamb

I see nothing in this article that has anything to do with scrutiny about me.

It's not valleywag's fault bc they are exposing things I do that look bad in the public eye - it's valleywags fault because despite the fact that I don't do any of those things, I am given a bad name anyway. Therefore I am faced with only two choices: participate publicly in the tech industry and have my character destroyed, or non-participation. Seriously, nothing was written about me until I did that keynote and then all of a sudden three publications picked up this ridiculous story that is totally unlike anything I would ever do. I think it's entirely logical that I stopped after that (and entirely illogical that I decided to finally be offended by a joke I agreed to four years ago... that's retarded).

I don't understand the point about Obama's campaign... I think Chris has done fantastic work - how come nobody is correlating the whole "the internet decided this election" thing with the whole "one of the people who helped create the largest social network runs internet strategy for Obama" thing?

moskov2

Boy-o-boy... Facebook's fail will be EPIC!

Figaro

Fidel on the Roof

If I slighted Owen, I'd be all over the 'wag getting made fun of.

How about you leave Mark alone and focus on the VCs who are forcing the coders there to turn out annoying crap to monetize a side that got overvalued to begin with.

andrew_feinberg

You're the one that should be working Obama's campaign, instead of the Hughes guy; you'd have fit in better.

Rick

And yeah, the scandal surrounding him with Ann Coulter or whatever, but that's another story.

Zuckerberg doesn't have real charisma. He's awkward. People who praise him in groups don't know him for the real brat he is. Sure, he got some plebs from other countries to help with translating his software (which he profits directly off of) and what did they get? A facebook gift.

I say, CYF and wait to say what happens. People will be going around the valley as ex-facebook refugees, begging for work.

Bornean

donmiguel

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Owen Thomas

Obviously, Jimmy is using people around him. It's no secret that some Wikians have connections to money and talented people. Had this of not been, I assure you that the Jimbo would be cold calling dentists and morticians to by STRIPS from the Bond Dept at Jackson Steinham.
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moskov2

Zucker comes off OK when you think of it.

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michaellamb

giddieup

Obviously, he's using people around him. It's no secret Harvard students have connections to money and talented people. Had this of not been, I assure you that the Zuckmeister would be running the CS department's site at Harvard on a Mambo.

He'll continue to have this support just because he was formerly a Harvard student. Until then, I don't really see the genius in him. The evidence available shows everyone except him is doing the work at fb. JMO

Bornean