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Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.
Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.
Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
Facebook is a platform inside a platform.
Facebook is at the forefront. It's the company that can fundamentally change the way information is being exchanged and processed. It can be the basis for artificial intelligence to develop over time.
Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.
Google never knew how successful key words would be.
Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
I have invested in four social networks. More than any other.
I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.
I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.
I must analyze, from what I do now, what will be the impact two or three or five years in the future. What is the statement I want to make?
I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.
I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.
I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world.
It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.
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