Mark Zuckerberg says there's a gap between building good products that work and building awesome ones that inspire people. Facebook and Meta reach over 3 billion people daily. His goal for the next 15 to 20 years is shifting toward building more awesome things.
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September 22, 2024.
More than 3 billion people.
The next 15–20 years.
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Some of the early Oculus guys used to say to me that there's a difference between building good things and awesome things. And like, good is good, right? It's helpful, it's useful. It's things that people use on a day to day basis because it adds something to their lives. But awesome is different. Awesome is uplifting and inspiring and leads you to just be way more optimistic about the future and is just like this uplifting thing about humanity. I think a lot of what we've done with social media so far is very good. We built these products, more than 3 billion people use them on a near daily basis. And they use it because it is useful in their life. It helps people stay connected, helps people build businesses, it helps people form communities. It's good. There aren't that many people on a day to day basis who get out of bed and are like, yeah, social media, like it's like, that's right, it's. I mean that's not like for the next stage of the company, the next like 15 years, I want us to build more things that are awesome in addition to things that are good. And I think that they both matter. And that's maybe it's also just like where I am in my life, right? I'm, I'm like, like to think I'm young, I'm a little older, right. But a lot of what I personally value is doing things that are inspiring with people who I find inspiring. Trying to do really high quality, awesome things with awesome people. If that's what I get to do for the next 15 or 20 years, then like it's going to be a good 15 or 20 years. What's.