Mark Zuckerberg - Visionary
Going into business, I felt myself getting pushed and pulled into many different directions from the beginning. EVERYONE seems to have an opinion… You eventually shrug them off, meanwhile feeling a little anxious but what happens when a TITAN expresses his opinion or questions your actions?
This is the moment when you hit a WALL, come out dazed and wonder WTF?!?
The answer was made clear for me as I was reading Time Magazine’s Person Of The Year article with Mark Zuckerberg. Mark has a crystal clear vision. He identified a void. When earlier entrepreneurs saw the internet as being a network of computers, he saw a network of people. He knows exactly WHO his client base is, WHAT they are after even before they know it, WHEN they would use it, WHERE they would use it and WHY they would use it. He is a man on a mission with a bulletproof mission statement.
Will you face criticism? Sure, but you can feel confident when you stand your ground. Will you make mistakes? Absolutely, as long as you can admit to yourself that it is a mistake, your vision will only become more empowered. A vision follows the path of blue chip shares of an enterprise with an ever widening economic moat (think of a castle and an increasing moat), has its ups n downs but strengthens with time.
When people ask Mark whether The Social Network movie will have an effect on the company he built, this is the moment he can confidently say “We build products that 500 million people see… If 5 million people see a movie, it doesn’t really matter that much.”
