21 year old Mark Zuckerberg explains why he isn’t worried about competition from Google

The fact that we could sort of rent machines for $100 a month and use that to scale up to a point where we had 300,000 users is pretty cool. And it's a pretty unique thing that's going on in technology right now. It makes it so that instead of worrying about just who's sort of the big player and what is Google going to do next, you could just get a lot of stuff done. You're leveraged to do a lot more on your own now. At no point in the past could you leverage such a small amount of money to get powerful enough technology to really touch people in the way that you can today. So Google does about 250 million page views a day. They have hundreds of thousands of machines and 5,000 employees. Facebook does 400 million page views a day, and we have hundreds of machines, and we just passed 50 employees. As you grow, the most important thing is to have smart people. As technology becomes sort of more generic and less expensive, the leverage point becomes more in the people. Because of technology now, people are much more leveraged to kind of do more things and just be more important in the equation. Because of that, it's really important to get the most intelligent people. And also, I mean, it's like when you're a small company, then you can be really nimble and get a lot of stuff done, and there's relatively little bureaucracy. So if you have smart people who can take advantage of that to build cool things, then that's awesome.