Across its 20-year history, the company now known as Meta has weathered multiple technology waves, from TikTok to ChatGPT. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared the formula that gives Meta staying power in a live podcast interview at Chase Center in San Francisco, California in front of 6,000 people earlier this month.
Speaking to Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal, co-hosts of the business strategy podcast Acquired, Zuckerberg addressed the common thread within Meta’s DNA that keeps the company relevant. He said it boiled down to a mindset.
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“I think it’s that we’re a technology company that is focused on human connection, not a specific type of app,” Zuckerberg said. “We never thought about ourselves as a website or a social network or anything like that.”
The Meta smart glasses, for example, which have Meta AI built-in, are “the natural continuation of the kind of apps that we build today,” …