“Move fast and break things”, probably one of the most popular quotes among the people who write “Entrepreneur” in their Instagram or Twitter bio (shameless plug: I have done the same with my Instagram bio, but not Twitter, maybe check that out.) And this particular quote is from Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg himself.

In this recent situation of Cambridge Analytica, #DeleteFacebook and Iron man, sorry, Elon Musk asking “What’s Facebook”; we need to seriously question this quote which drives Mark and the team at Facebook.

Like other successful companies, Facebook moves really fast, which every company should, at least to survive in this disruptive & fast changing market . But, unlike other successful companies, Facebook doesn’t care what they are breaking on the way which is the root cause of all problems. Facebook have rolled out, or planning to roll-out features like

• Facebook Local, to compete against other event apps

• Watch, to compete against YouTube

• Job Listings, to compete against LinkedIn

• Page Subscription, which kind of competes with Patreon.

• Smart speakers, to compete against Amazon Echo and Google Home

And probably many other products or services which Facebook is secretly working on.

But the history says, opening up to many battle fronts leads to only one thing, failure. It happened with the most hated *insert any slang* Adolf Hitler, to, one of the most profitable companies in the world, Apple.

Hitler’s downfall was directly proportional to the number of battle fronts Nazis opened. Almost same with Apple, after Steve Jobs was kicked out of his own company, the series of new CEOs brought in different other products to increase Apple’s revenue but drastically failed because of the same fukin reason — opening up too many battle fronts, which led to the loss of nearly a billion dollars. Now the best part about this is, Mark can learn from Steve. No, am not talking about your high-school friends Mark & Steve, am talking about technology pioneers Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs.

As soon as Steve came back to Apple, the first thing he did was to take massive control of Apple’s product line. He deprecated all products that he thought couldn’t make Apple ‘Think Different’. And Mark can learn a lot from this. Rather than going against all his Silicon Valley friends(By the way, no one in Silicon Valley is friend) he should focus on 1 single mission that could drive Facebook and make it different from others.

The term ‘Omnipresent’ goes more with Mark Zuckerberg than God himself/herself(By the way, what you think about God’s gender. That’s for another article) because Mark Zuckerberg owns more private data and knows more about your private life than God. Now the only difference between God & Mark is that ‘God’ is a 3-letter word & ‘Mark’- 4, just kidding. The main difference between them is God doesn’t leak data, Mark does and have come under fire several times for doing that.

So after gaining over 2 billion users which made Facebook the biggest social network in the world, Mark should primarily focus on privacy of these people who trust him and gave him their personal data to use his service.

According to Mark, Facebook’s main mission is to connect people. But you can’t connect people by making them naked and risking their privacy. In recent testimony to the Congress, Mark couldn’t name a single company which he thinks to be Facebook’s biggest competitor and the reason is same again - opening up too many battle fronts. He himself doesn’t know which sector he wants to win. But on the other side Steve was very clear about the companies he want to crush and eventually crushed it.

And i will end this with two quotes, one from Spiderman to Mark:

And second one from Edward Snowden to the people using Mark’s Facebook:

Lastly, Mark, start learning from Steve and move fast but please don’t break things.

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