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    Resign, Mark Zuckerberg, Resign

    Marc Andreessen joins eBay's board, will crush you

    Ning employees not normal, says CEO

    Gina Bianchini lurks outside the walled garden

    Former Ning employee fantasizes about kidnapping Marc Andreessen

    Valleywag mangles Marc Andreessen, and we think he likes it

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    Why Ning axed a widgetmaker

    Advertisers fighting with your friends and neighbors' sex lives for attention on Facebook

    VC Dennis Miller doesn't envy Ning and Brightcove's investors
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    Image of Figaro Figaro
    04/02/09

    In reply to Resign, Mark Zuckerberg, Resign
    Excellent post Owen! I completely agree with you!


    Long time ago, like a year ago, we argued about Mark on Valleywag and I told you then that Mark will be a disaster. You thought otherwise. It's great to know that you change your mind.


    Your choice of Marc as a replacement is an excellent one! Marc's amazing at what he does and he'd do a lot better job at FB.

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    Image of Accidental Billionaire Accidental Billionaire
    04/02/09

    In reply to Resign, Mark Zuckerberg, Resign
    You guys are "Begging the question" and giving Zuck credit where none is due.


    Zuckerberg has delivered nothing to Facebook from his talent.


    If it weren't for his Harvard connections, he wouldn't have the following:

    - Initial VC

    - The massive investment by Microsoft (Harvard budz)

    - The Buzz created by MS investment, the press drawing similarities (He's the next Bill Gates)


    Here is what is true:

    - He stole the idea, got sued.

    - He hasn't created any noteworthy profit, despite the site's amazing popularity

    - He has had many fallouts with his decisions, he manages his business like any other college kid. Straight into the ground.


    Talent? Wizard? Businessman? This kid couldn't even pass for a web designer.


    Zuckerberg is a fake. He's a crook.

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    Image of Shadowlayer Shadowlayer
    04/02/09

    In reply to Resign, Mark Zuckerberg, Resign
    I never get the people I need for my projects, meanwhile this dickwad gets the entire A-Team and still finds a way to screw it up.
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    Image of narnio narnio
    04/02/09

    In reply to Resign, Mark Zuckerberg, Resign
    Andreessen is not leaving Ning and FB would have no use for their technology.


    How's this for a thought - let someone from inside FB run the company... someone who's going to be accountable, but not beholden, to Zuck.


    Is bringing in a big swinging dick is going to add any value to the company?

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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    04/02/09

    @narnio: Karp?
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    Image of narnio narnio
    04/02/09

    @Phyllis Nefler: *we hear
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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    04/02/09

    In reply to Resign, Mark Zuckerberg, Resign
    My 78 yo great aunt friended me recently. I declined and have been able to bring myself to login again since. Facebook is so over!!!
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    04/02/09

    In reply to Resign, Mark Zuckerberg, Resign
    Only history will show what kind of entrepeneurial legacy he will leave behind. That is, when he appears on Dancing With The Stars.
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    Image of Michael Murdock Michael Murdock
    04/02/09

    In reply to Resign, Mark Zuckerberg, Resign
    Oh wait can I have his job? Would love to move back to Palo Alto again :) That's where I began my run in the Bay Area which lasted 20 years.
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    04/02/09

    In reply to Resign, Mark Zuckerberg, Resign
    There are very, very few examples of companies where the founder who presided over the fast-growth phase can transition successfully to managing it.


    Mostly, they have to be dragged kicking and screaming, after the stock has hit $2.

     Reply
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    Image of bmoreDLJ bmoreDLJ
    04/02/09

    In reply to Resign, Mark Zuckerberg, Resign
    I feel like he was smart enough to write the code for the Facebook matrix, but makes him a businessman, this does not. 24 is too young to be in charge of anything. I'm 24. I'm in charge of a cat, that's about it.
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    Image of narnio narnio
    04/02/09

    @bmoreDLJ: WHAT IS THE FACEBOOK MATRIX? PLS EXPLAIN
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    Image of Shadowlayer Shadowlayer
    04/02/09

    @bmoreDLJ: Do i get equity in said cat if I clean the litter box?


    @narnio: Its a virtual world where the Zuck sits in a room full of screens reading everybody's status updates.

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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    04/02/09

    @narnio: This: [gawker.com]


    MINE HAD JOHN CARNEY ON IT.

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    Image of narnio narnio
    04/02/09

    @Phyllis Nefler: i disagree, i think our dear friend above was trying to talk about the "social graph" but it confused with Keanu Reeves.
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    04/02/09

    @narnio: "..."
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    Image of elscorcho elscorcho
    04/02/09

    In reply to Resign, Mark Zuckerberg, Resign
    Oh shut up. He's done more than basically any other 24 year old ever, and he's continuing to learn. Fb's growth over the past five years is amazing, and will continue to grow, corporate infighting or not. Long live the ZUCK. He's got it made, he'd be a fool to walk away now.
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    Image of Wendy_Kroy Wendy_Kroy
    04/02/09

    @elscorcho: @bmoreDLJ: By the age of 24, Orson Welles had formed the Mercury Theatre and executed his famous War of the Worlds broadcast; Alexander the Great was a successful general; F. Scott Fitzgerald had written most of This Side of Paradise; and Henry VIII ruled England. Zuckerberg's accomplishments are impressive, but only because most people these days spend their 20s fucking around, not running companies. Not that there's anything wrong with that - I happily spent my 20s fucking around, too, and would do it again - but being 24 doesn't mean you should get a special dispensation to be bad at your job.
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    Image of Jillian York Jillian York
    04/02/09

    @elscorcho: Seriously? More than any 24 year old ever? Give me a break. He created a website, big fucking deal. Google Balamurali Ambati, you idiot.
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    Image of nirreskeya nirreskeya
    04/06/09

    @Jillian York: To quote a fictional do-nothing 22-year-old: "Keats, big poet Keats, was *dead* by 24."
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    04/02/09

    In reply to Resign, Mark Zuckerberg, Resign
    Redesign, Mark Zuckerberg, Redesign!
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    Image of Awesome X Awesome X
    04/02/09

    In reply to Resign, Mark Zuckerberg, Resign
    Rather, Mark Zuckerberg is the "Desperate Housewives" of our time.
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    Image of Jackson West Jackson West
    04/02/09

    In reply to Resign, Mark Zuckerberg, Resign
    But he's CEO, bitch!


    BTW, nice work on the photochop. I approve.

     Reply
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    Image of oboesqueaks oboesqueaks
    04/02/09

    In reply to Resign, Mark Zuckerberg, Resign
    I found it strange that you can't really delete a facebook account, just deactivate it. So I deactivated mine, got an email saying that all I had to do was log back in and my info would still be there (wtf?), reactivated it, deleted everything, and deactivated it again. Worse than canceling AOL.
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    Image of macbeach macbeach
    04/02/09

    @oboesqueaks: I did the same thing. Just to be safe I populated my profile with fake information, like that I have 14 eyes, blue skin and come from Arcturus. Then I deactivated it.


    Only problem is I'm now getting some really weird long-distance telemarketing calls and the junk mail melted a hole in the bottom of my mailbox.

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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    04/02/09

    @oboesqueaks: I wish they made you send in a photo via snail mail of yourself holding a sign saying "YOU HAVE BEEN SUPERPOKED."
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    Image of SarahHeartburn SarahHeartburn
    04/02/09

    In reply to Resign, Mark Zuckerberg, Resign
    Not to mention my "what's on your mind" post of last night on Facebook seems to have been rejected for using a perfectly decent word like "fuck". Oh, what a world....
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    Image of PandoraSpocks PandoraSpocks
    04/02/09

    @SarahHeartburn: Can you Tweet the F word?
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    Image of Schm Schm
    04/02/09

    @SarahHeartburn: Wow, seriously? I had no idea they censored status updates now. Lame.
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    Image of i38warhawk i38warhawk
    04/02/09

    @Schmalerie: What if you connect your twitter to your facebook status update?Can you still curse?
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    Image of Schm Schm
    04/02/09

    @i38warhawk: I have heard stories from people about Twitter updates only being selectively shown on FB from people who have them connected, so I wonder if they fiddle with those too.
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