First Interview with Mark Zuckerberg — Transcript

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1. 0:03all right we are here in San Francisco
2. 0:05with an enormous statue of Christopher
3. 0:07Columbus who as we all know discovered
4. 0:09San Francisco in 1492 or his ships the
5. 0:13Nina the San Jose and the Palo Alto to
6. 0:16set the stage for a few hundred years
7. 0:18later when thousands of other foreign
8. 0:20information workers would come to
9. 0:22Silicon Valley and begin making millions
10. 0:25of dollars
11. 0:26he was the first we're actually gonna go
12. 0:28down to Silicon Valley and not speak
13. 0:30with the creator of Facebook today and
14. 0:31so let's get on that because I'm still
15. 0:38not actually I'm gonna mention to be
16. 0:42hard at work I'm here in Palo Alto
17. 0:46California chillin with Mark Zuckerberg
18. 0:48of the facebook.com for the uninitiated
19. 0:51or those without any computer so let's
20. 0:54you know simply what Facebook is like
21. 0:56that's so I think Facebook is an online
22. 1:01directory for colleges and then it's
23. 1:04kind of interactive so if I look you up
24. 1:06or get information about you I just go
25. 1:08to the Facebook and type in your name
26. 1:10and it brings me up like hopefully all
27. 1:12the information I'd care to know about
28. 1:14you or like a good amount of the
29. 1:16information I'd want to know about you
30. 1:17what is it that you think attracted
31. 1:20it's a lot of different individual
32. 1:22communities so I mean when we originally
33. 1:24got started at Harvard it was just me
34. 1:26programming what was a Facebook really
35. 1:30at that time for Harvard because didn't
36. 1:32have anything like that
37. 1:33so I realized that because I didn't have
38. 1:36people's information like a school would
39. 1:38and making a Facebook I needed to make
40. 1:40it interesting enough so that people
41. 1:41would want to use the site and want to
42. 1:43like put their information out there
43. 1:44else it wouldn't be useful for other
44. 1:46people and therefore would grow so
45. 1:48launched at Harvard and early February
46. 1:50of 2004 and within a couple of weeks
47. 1:53two-thirds of the school and signed up
48. 1:54so at that point my roommates were kind
49. 1:57of like you know this is pretty cool
50. 1:58like I thought this would work at other
51. 1:59schools but I'm we were all busy with
52. 2:01classes and stuff so we kind of just
53. 2:04wanted to make sure that it was gonna
54. 2:06work before going and like any further
55. 2:08with it so we launched it add three
56. 2:10schools that also had some sort of
57. 2:12online communities so those were
58. 2:14Columbia Yale and Stanford so um
59. 2:16launched at those three and within a
60. 2:19couple of weeks each of those three
61. 2:20schools also like had thousands of users
62. 2:23who are like alright this is pretty
63. 2:24sweet like let's just go all out and see
64. 2:26how many schools we can lock the Stata
65. 2:27script as possible so we closed out the
66. 2:29year with I think 29 schools came out to
67. 2:32Palo Alto for the summer which hung out
68. 2:34because Palo Alto has come this mythical
69. 2:35place where you know all the startups
70. 2:37come from got ready to launch and
71. 2:39another hundred and fifty schools when
72. 2:41the year started and now it's like we'll
73. 2:43go to parties on campus like we end up
74. 2:45this one's room like there's a Facebook
75. 2:46window open that's pretty cool you know
76. 2:48I mean work like one of my roommates was
77. 2:50traveling around Europe a couple of
78. 2:51weeks ago and he went to internet cafes
79. 2:53and like
80. 2:54Ireland in Italy then like when he went
81. 2:57to Facebook just to check out whether it
82. 3:00was like whether we're still working the
83. 3:02way it was supposed to he'd go to like
84. 3:05the login page and it would have like
85. 3:06someone else's login they're saved from
86. 3:08like the last time someone had been on
87. 3:09it and I think like in London he was
88. 3:12like two of the people in the internet
89. 3:13cafe were on the Facebook at the time I
90. 3:15mean nothing we were talking like it's
91. 3:16sort of inspires like people to actually
92. 3:19meet public yeah like it's not just an
93. 3:22online
94. 3:22have you noticed stuff like that yeah I
95. 3:24mean I think that the goal that we went
96. 3:26into it with wasn't to make an online
97. 3:30community but sort of like a mirror for
98. 3:32the real community that existed in real
99. 3:33life
100. 3:34so like the Facebook for your school
101. 3:37isn't somewhere where people actually go
102. 3:39to meet but like where do you go to see
103. 3:41like who knows each other you know it
104. 3:42may be like sort of an a groundbreaker
105. 3:45or like icebreaker you know so that way
106. 3:46you can find out something about people
107. 3:49and see where you want to be or maybe
108. 3:51like message them and it's just like a
109. 3:54really informal way to like start a
110. 3:56dialogue and where do you take a fist
111. 3:58but at this point you can expand to
112. 3:59those other schools that you're not
113. 4:01I mean there doesn't necessarily have to
114. 4:06be more you know I mean like a lot of
115. 4:09people are focused on taking over the
116. 4:11world they're doing like the biggest
117. 4:12thing getting the most users I mean I
118. 4:14think like part of making a difference
119. 4:16in doing something cool is focusing
120. 4:19intensely there was a level of service
121. 4:21that we can provide we were just at
122. 4:23Harvard that we can provide for all of
123. 4:25the colleges and there's a level of
124. 4:26service them to provide one where a
125. 4:27college network so we wouldn't be able
126. 4:29to provide if we went to other types of
127. 4:30things so I mean like I really just want
128. 4:33to see everyone focus on college and
129. 4:34create like a really cool College
130. 4:36directory product that just like it's
131. 4:39very relevant for students and like has
132. 4:41a lot of like information that people
133. 4:44care about when they're in college so I
134. 4:45don't know what that is and it's not
135. 4:47everything that's on the Facebook now