Like Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg is
someone who cares deeply about
creating perfect products, and he
pays close attention to detail.
Early employee Noah Kagan , who
now runs SumoMe , worked for
Facebook for nine months in 2005.
He remembers some startling ways
the young CEO reacted when he
didn't feel an employee's work was
good enough.
One time, Kagan recalls Zuckerberg
dumping water on an engineer's
computer and calling the product he
demoed "shit."
From Kagan's e-book about working
at Facebook:
While I don't remember the
feature we were working on,
engineer Chris Putnam and I had
spent almost a month building
something we thought Mark
would love. He walks to Chris'
computer and we demo the
product to Mark. Mark thought it
was shit. I know so because
instead of giving product
feedback, he screamed "this is
shit — redo it!" threw water on
Chris' computer, and walked
away. All of us stood around in
shock.
In other instances, Kagan says,
Zuckerberg had a samurai sword he
would fake-threaten employees with
when they produced bad work.
He'd walk around with a
samurai sword fake
threatening to attack you for bad
work. Where the hell he got that
samurai sword, who the hell
knows? Luckily, no employees
were harmed while I was there.
He’d come around and pretend
to cut you joking if you
take down the site he’ll chop
your head off. You have to
remember you have a 23-year
old uber nerd running one of the
fastest growing sites on the web.
As mature as he could be he also
was still immature.
...He had some great
motivational lines. With love,
he’d say "If you don't get that
done sooner, I will punch you in
the face," or "I will chop
you with this huge sword," while
holding a huge sword in hand.
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