Mark Zuckerberg to new-hire Aditya Agarwal : “If I can build Facebook you can build a search engine”

Back in 2005, pretty close to when I first started at Facebook. Maybe, like, this is week two or week three, trying to figure out what to do. Nobody was really giving me much direction. And I remember Mark walking up to me and he's like, hey, dude, I think you should write a search engine for Facebook. Yeah, Just you? Yeah. It's like, you and what team, right? It's really important because when people come onto Facebook, the first thing they want to do is search for people. And then my first reaction is like, mark, I don't know how to write a search engine. I've never done this. Why don't we go hire somebody from Google or Yahoo to do this? And he looked at me, he's like, dude, if I can build Facebook, you can build a damn search engine. And you did. And I did. There's like. And when I say it was the, like, 30 seconds that I still think about, which is all of us can build whatever we put our minds to. And this is kind of the culture that, for me, still defines Facebook, right? Which is that there is this hacker can do total ownership culture that if I could actually tell every startup in the world to, like, take one thing, which is that all of you can do whatever you want as long as you put your mind to it, it's probably easier than you think.