Mark Zuckerberg might not be essentially the most likable determine in Silicon Valley, however we are able to empathize with him on this: it will really feel actually bizarre if somebody made a film about your life.
On YouTubers Colin and Samir’s podcast, Zuckerberg spoke in regards to the one and solely time he noticed “The Social Network.”
“It was bizarre, man,” he mentioned. “They obtained all these very particular particulars of what I used to be carrying, or these particular issues appropriate, however then the entire narrative arc round my motivations and all these items had been like, utterly incorrect.”
The fifteen-year-old film solely got here up in dialog as a result of Zuckerberg was carrying a t-shirt that Jesse Eisenberg wore when portraying the younger founder on display screen — Zuckerberg later purchased the t-shirt at an public sale. Although Zuckerberg was recognized for carrying plain gray t-shirts, he’s since paid much more consideration to his fashion, so it’s seemingly that his t-shirt selection was not an accident.
Zuckerberg mentioned that he knew his staff could be curious to see it anyway, so he organized for the corporate to go watch it collectively.
“The entire arc is like, I’m in some way motivated by looking for a girlfriend, [but] I used to be courting Priscilla earlier than I began Facebook.”
Perhaps this portrayal of Zuckerberg stems from one other infamous web site he created whereas a pupil: Facemash, an app the place college students might vote on which of their classmates was the most well liked. While the service was standard amongst some college students, it angered others who felt it was a violation of their privateness; he had scraped his classmates’ pupil ID pictures from non-public servers to make the positioning.
“It’s an unlucky a part of the web, how folks type of make up a number of the founding mythology to what they need,” Zuckerberg mentioned.
He denies the concept Facemash was a precursor to Facebook, claiming that after over 20 years, folks nonetheless hyperlink Facemash and Facebook as a consequence of “The Social Network.”
“I used to be only a child,” Zuckerberg mentioned.
