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Colossus just published a 10,000-word profile of Mark Zuckerberg (months with him, his parents, his MMA coaches, and his rivals). The thesis: he's a Roman emperor running the largest empire in history from inside a prison, and he will never, ever stop. 🦷 His dad, "the painless Dr. Z," says "He didn't stand out as the bright one in the family." Middle daughter Donna was the nerd. At 12 he wrote ZuckNet in Atari BASIC in two days so the dental office wouldn't have to drill wires through walls.…
colossusmag@colossusmag4h ago
Mark, by @colossusjeremy. This is a story about the head of history's largest nonterritorial empire, who nonetheless remains a prisoner of his rivals. Has he finally found a way out? The profile has been nearly a year in the making. Stern interviewed three dozen people, including Zuckerberg, his MMA coach, and his critics and competitors at the frontier AI labs. He spoke with his parents, Karen and Ed, and watched their son get punched in the face. The story spans Meta HQ in Menlo Park, the Zuckerbergs' homes in Palo Alto and Lake Tahoe, and a party in a Manhattan warehouse with Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet. There is also a sneak peek of Aaron Sorkin's forthcoming sequel about Zuckerberg, sourced via a Hollywood fixer Stern first encountered in Russia. The result is a profile unlike one you've read before. https://t.co/uO3zL1HKDl