#383 Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp

I really believe that if you're going to accomplish whatever, anything, a lot of it is just being willing to push through and having the grit and determination to push through difficult situations.

The heuristic that I always focused on... is that you should only hire someone to be on your team if you would be happy working for them in an alternate universe.

You'll have an assistant that you can talk to in WhatsApp ... I think, in the future, every creator will have kind of an AI agent that can act on their behalf that their fans can talk to. I want to get to the point where every small business basically has AI agent the people can talk to do commerce and customer support and things like that.

Everyone else is building, like, the one singular AI. You talk to ChatGPT, or you talk to Bard ... My view is that that they're going to be a lot of different AIs that people are going to want to engage with—just like you want to use a number of different apps for different things and you have relationships with different people in your life who fill different emotional roles for you.

Maybe to some degree, your ability to keep doing interesting things is your willingness to be embarrassed again and go back to step one and start as a beginner and get your ass kicked and look stupid doing things.

The thing that stresses me out the most is always the people challenges. You know, I kind of think that strategy questions, I tend to have enough conviction around the values of what we're trying to do and what I think matters and what I want our company to stand for that those don't really keep me up at night that much.

One of the things that's been pretty clear is when you have a team that's cohesive, you can get almost anything done.

Doing sports that basically require your full attention, I think, is really important to my mental health and the way I just stay focused on doing everything I'm doing.

I just think part of learning is failing.

I just kind of think that the moment that you decide that you're going to be too embarrassed to try something new, then you're not going to learn anything anymore.

Layoffs are uniquely challenging and tough in that you have a lot of people leaving for reasons that aren't connected to their own performance or the culture not being a fit at that point ... It's a kind of strategy decision and sometimes financially required.