On a March episode of Lex Fridman’s podcast, the Meta CEO explained why he thinks college students should be selective about who they hang out with.
story. But according to Mark Zuckerberg, you might have learned the wrong lesson from it.
On a recent episode of the"Lex Fridman Podcast," hosted by MIT computer scientist Lex Fridman, Zuckerberg said his initial ability to launch Facebook back in 2004 wasn't because he dropped out of college or abandoned any of his other interests. Rather, the Meta CEO said, it was due to the personal connections he made while he was still in school.
Who you spend time with in college, Zuckerberg said, is"the most important decision" any student can make on campus."You become the people you surround yourself with," he explained."I think probably people are too, in general, objective focused, and maybe not focused enough on the connections and the people who they're basically building relationships [with]."
Zuckerberg met his Facebook co-founders — Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Andrew McCollum — while the five were students at Harvard University in the early 2000s. Their business went on to revolutionize social media and become one of the world's largest companies: Meta has a market capitalization of $582.58 billion, as of Friday afternoon.
The group ultimately split up in an infamously messy fashion, roughly detailed in the 2010 film"The Social Network." But Zuckerberg said on the podcast that he still tries to prioritize relationships over objectives today. That applies especially to hiring, he said: When evaluating a job candidate, he imagines what it would be like to work for that person, instead of being their boss.
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