10.06.2010, 19:10:40
Facebook Kingdom
Mark Zuckerberg Photo © AFP
Article Editor's Blog Business Insider, dedicated to the founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg
Speech by Mark Zuckerberg at All Things D conference last week was a flop so that many - including previously supported him author of the blog Scobleizer, Robert Scoble - call for him to leave his post and hire a new executive director.
These people are crazy.
They are fools if they think that Mark needs to resign. They are crazy if they think that Mark leave resign.
Yes, Mark made some mistakes. When he was 19 years old, he wrote insulting things about users of Facebook, behaved unethically with business partners and perhaps even violated the law by breaking into email accounts, users sotsseti. Now Mark 20 with the tail. He - the head of a large company, and he performed poorly with the pressure of the press on the privacy of users sotsseti and simply horrible acts in public - whether in interviews or conferences.
But - like it or not - these bugs do not have any influence on the future of the company.
Facebook users do not know about them, and if they knew - they probably would not care. For them sotsset - especially handy product. Each month, Facebook enjoyed 500 million. Half of them are doing it every day. Revenue diversified as much as Google can not dream. In 2010, Facebook will earn more than two billion dollars, given that in 2009, was rescued about 800 million. In May, Mark proved to be the most incompetent of all time at the helm of Facebook. However, the increase in the number of subscribers sotsseti only increased. Obviously, the errors did not affect Mark's ability to offer Facebook users a good product.
And even if the various weaknesses and shortcomings Mark really mattered, we very much doubt that Mark would have left for them to resign.
After all, Mark stopped working together with the twins and Vinklvoss Divia Narendra Harvard Connection over the network and launched a Facebook just because I wanted to manage his own company. The desire to stand at the helm guided him in making important decisions:
- Mark the first time received funding from Peter Thiel, because Thiel wanted it, Mark was at the helm.
- Mark has received funds from the investment fund, Accel Partners, because Jim Breer allowed Mark to appoint three of the five members of the board of directors.
- Mark refused to sell the holding company Facebook Yahoo! Over one billion dollars, because he wanted to retain control over sotssetyu.
- Mark has sold 1.6 percent stake in Facebook from Microsoft, because that allowed him to control the company.
- Mark has received funding from the DST, because its director Yuri Milner not object to the fact that DST got ordinary shares without voting rights - Milner wants to control the company named Mark.
Facebook has already parted with many successful top managers, specializing in internet industry, who came to the company, full of confidence that one day they will stand at the helm. Fact: The current Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg holds office because she is the only one of all qualified candidates for this position has not expressed a desire to take the place of the head.
Another fact: Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg company. He controls three of the five members of the board of directors. In November 2009, Mark has manipulated the structure of shareholders Facebook in the image of Google Inc. and the managing company of the newspaper The Washington Post. After Facebook hold IPO, Mark and his allies will package of preferred shares that will give them 10 votes for each share at the meeting. Other investors would get shares of common stock with one vote. Mark is not really the executive director, he - the king.
So no, Mark Zuckerberg should not and will not go away. And the next director of Facebook, is likely to be his (until you see the light), the heir.
However, we, like other media, do not stop in the foreseeable future, meticulously examine all of the Mark. As vicious mob of participants All Things D, we envy him. His youth, power, wealth and popularity of Facebook users.
Translated Dmitry Reading
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