Mark Zuckerberg: Experience isn’t that important

If you think about it, I started the company when I was 19. Right. I can't institutionally believe that experience is that important or else I would have a hard time reconciling myself and the company. So we invest in people who we think are just really talented, even if they haven't done that thing before. And that applies to people who are fresh out of university, as well as people like the CFO who took the company public. Had not taken a company public before. Right. And a lot of his background was in production development at Genentech before. Just focus on really talented people. And so if you don't have the experience to look for, how do you assess someone's raw talent? Often you can tell from different things that they've done. Obviously, everyone's done something right. Even if you're 19. Right. You've done side projects and interesting stuff. And I think what's important is not to believe that someone has to have specifically done the job that they're going to do in order to be able to do it well.