Posted on 01/15/2017 1:27:36 PM PST by drewh
Facebook insiders have told how Mark Zuckerberg quotes Greek legends to staff and 'wants to be emperor'. In the latest indicator that he may one day run for president, Vanity Fair quotes several friends of the CEO who say he is well suited to politics and has designs for a career beyond Silicon Valley.
They say the 32-year-old is naturally drawn to leadership, with the phrase 'he wants to be emperor' apparently 'common' among his peers.
'He’s been incredibly careful about cultivating a specific type of persona over the past few years,' said one friend, suggesting Zuckerberg's move into politics is in the works.
His fascination with Greek legend also seeps into his management style. Zuckerberg is said to have once recited lines from the movie Troy to a packed room of Facebook staff.
When new employees ask why they should join the company, he apparently urges staff to tell them: 'Because people will remember your name.'
While Zuckerberg has yet to make any statement suggesting he will run for office, friends said he would most likely make a bid in 2024 when he is 40. Earlier this year, Zuckerberg fuelled rumors he was plotting a political bid when he vowed to visit every state in the US.
Announcing his New Year's resolution on his Facebook page, he said: ' My personal challenge for 2017 is to have visited and met people in every state in the US by the end of the year.
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“I think he’s a worm.”
Me, too. He is a false front information mining and selling operator, is into playing mind games with his unwitting subscribers, likes censorship, and is now ‘carefully creating his image’. He is a new generation Marxist-socialist proggie con man.
Identify, investigate, illuminate, ridicule, repeat.
He read the bible too quickly.
The geeks will not inherit the earth.
What emperor does he want to be, Caligula?
He probably wants to be Julius Caesar. He sees himself as being considered a great man who. Like Caesar, he wants to head the government and then abolish the rest of it.
He’s a spoiled child.
So he quotes from a movie not actual classical literature.
Wow I’m impressed.
Oh great. All the billionaires saw another billionaire become President and now they all want to do it. Good grief!
He is no Donald Trump. What he doesn’t have is charisma, and that is fatal flaw.
Hope he does, spends a billion or two, and loses.
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