Mark Zuckerberg Says He Is "Not A Cool Person"; Watch His Q&A Session
For the first time in the history of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg faced an open Q&A session where he spent almost an hour answering numerous questions submitted from around the world. Some Facebook users have even come from faraway places to visit the company's California headquarter just to attend the function and catch a glimpse of the young entrepreneur.
The session lasted for around an hour and was later taken over by Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg. The session was quite interesting as the young pioneer opened up about himself and answered numerous questions including his modus operandi, Ebola and a messaging app.
CNN Money reported that various questions were raised during the session, which in actuality pointed out to one particular issue--how close is the movie 'The Social Network' with the actual reality. "I think the reality is that writing code and then building a product and building a company actually is not a glamorous enough thing to make a movie about," said the 30-year-old Internet Mogul. "So you can imagine that a lot of this stuff they had to embellish or make up."
Zuckerberg's statements also alluded to the fact that the movie depicted various angles, which were nowhere close to actual reality. For instance, the movie showed that he built Facebook after being jilted by a girl. He claims that this is absolutely false as he asserted that he was already with his wife even before starting the site.
His whole journey in building Facebook was rooted from hard work, as told by the Internet entrepreneur himself. Zuckerberg also shared that he found some stuff from the movie hurtful.
In another instance, Zuckerberg was asked for the reason behind his love for the same grey T-shirt he wears every day. The audience expected some light or funny anecdote regarding this matter, but Zuckerberg tackled the issue quite seriously saying that he prefers not to waste his valuable time and energy on frivolous silly things.
When told by one of the attendees that Facebook has become too boring and cluttered, Zuckerberg simply said that his goal was never to make the Facebook cool or exciting. He asserted that his actual motive is to make the site useful. "I am not a cool person," said the young billionaire to the astonished audience, "And I've never really tried to be cool."
Watch Zuckerberg answer smoothly all the questions fired at him: