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Seriously? I think if someone makes a movie about myself (or my company), I'd be LOLing too, and certainly flattered.

Zuck is also human you know? There's nothing special about him embracing the attention, there's no "tremendous inner strength and maturity on his part".

In the end, he's a hacker and hackers don't care too much about their personal brand or public appearance. Don't you think he would be a better public speaker a long time ago if he actually cared about it? He's not Paris Hilton, his "fame" is not driven by his public apparences.



Zuck is concerned with the future of Facebook, as a company and as a service, far more than all this personal bullshit and his own brand, and I think that's what makes him a good leader irrespective of what anyone might think of his past.

When your company is servicing close to a third of the world's internet population and is actually making an iota of history, I'd like to see you LOL real loud when someone is out there trying to publicly defame you and ruin what you've built.


I know plenty of hackers who are obsessed with their personal brands. Every niche has their celebrities. And in turn, every niche has their Paris Hiltons.




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