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Meta exposé tops bestseller chart despite company’s attempt to ban its promotion
(www.theguardian.com)
Picked up the audiobook, narrated by the author herself. I'm about 9 hours into the book, and nothing has really shocked me, more reaffirmed my thoughts on tech companies as a whole.
Every time I see Zuck talk in public, I can easily picture myself in his shoes: a software engineer way out of his depth. The fact that the engineers rule Facebook is exactly how I would run a tech company, obviously there has to be business people but I'd want my friends and the people like me to be the ones I'd deal with most and the ones making decisions.
I'm at the point where zuck is finding out from his senior execs the role Facebook played in Trump's win. And then him getting a taste of real power, not just billionaire CEO power, as the world leaders start sucking up to him knowing how big a role FB will play in their own countries elections.
I like the book so far, and the author really paints a picture of who she is as a person. So you easily understand how she's feeling during every part of this. She went into the business wanting to save the world, and while Facebook had the ability to be that, the senior execs clearly had a different goal in mind, alot of them came from Google and probably left because they didn't click with the "Don't be Evil" thing. I think Google had to drop that too because all these executives are just naturally evil.