Mark Zuckerberg may not be the biggest Likeable In Silicon Valley figure, we can sympathize with him: if someone makes a movie about your life, it’s really weird.
On YouTubers Colin and Samir’s podcast Zuckerberg’s speech It was about the only time he saw a “social network”.
“It’s weird, man,” he said. “They got all these very specific details that I’m wearing, or these specific things right, but the whole narrative revolves around my motivations, all of these things are totally wrong.”
The fifteen-year-old movie only appears in the conversation as Zuckerberg wore a T-shirt that Jesse Eisenberg portrayed the young founder on screen – Zuckerberg later bought the T-shirt at auction. Although Zuckerberg once known for his pure grey T-shirts, he has paid since Pay more attention to his styleso his t-shirt choice may not be accidental.
Zuckerberg said he knew his employees would be curious anyway, so he arranged for the company to watch together.
“The whole arc is like, I was trying to find my girlfriend somehow, [but] I was dating Priscilla before I started Facebook. ”
Perhaps this portrayal of Zuckerberg stems from another infamous website he created as a student: Facemash, an app in which students can vote for which classmate. Although the service is popular among some students, Angered others Who thinks it violates their privacy; he shaved his classmates’ student ID photos from a private server to make the site.
“It’s an unfortunate part of the internet, how people make up for many of the founding myths for what they want,” Zuckerberg said.
He denied the idea that Facebook was a pioneer, claiming that people still connect Facebook with it because of “social networks.”
“I’m just a kid,” Zuckerberg said.
