Mark Zuckerberg Says ‘Fuck That’ to Closed Platforms
In his two decades of running the company known as Meta, Mark Zuckerberg has gone through many changes. Lately, he’s been showing a less filtered version of himself. But during a live-streamed conversation with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, the Meta CEO seemed to speak a little differently than he intended.
The conversation started out normally, with the two billionaire executives congratulating each other on their AI dominance. Zuckerberg made sure to talk about the company’s recent AI Studio announcement before getting into his usual talking points, including his recent sharp criticism of Apple.
Zuckerberg then went on to give a lengthy speech about his frustrations with “closed” ecosystems like Apple’s App Store. None of this is new, as Meta’s founders have been feuding with Apple for years. But then Zuckerberg, who is usually quite controlled in his public appearances, revealed just how disappointed he is, telling Huang that his reaction to being told “no” is “fuck it.”
“I mean, it’s kind of selfish, but, you know, having built this company for a while, one of my things for the next 10 or 15 years is I just want to make sure that we can build the foundational technology that we’re going to build social experiences on, because there are so many things that I’ve tried to build and then just been told ‘no, you can’t actually build this by the platform provider,’ that on some level I just think, ‘no, fuck it,'” Zuckerberg said.
“Our broadcast opportunity is gone,” Huang said. “Sorry,” Zuckerberg said. “Let me talk about closed platforms, and I get angry.”
