Ben Thompson reveals Mark Zuckerberg invited him to Meta to understand six years of Reality Labs criticism and then kept doing the same thing
“So this was in 2020. It was the week before everything shut down. He invites me in, and the reason he wanted to talk to me is he wanted to understand why, for six years, however long it had been, I had been relentlessly opposed to what they were doing with the metaverse and Reality Labs."
"And actually, it increased my respect for him a ton. He didn't want to argue with me. He did argue with me, but it was a Socratic sort of, I want to really understand what you think. I obviously didn't change his mind about it at all."
"But he's like, I just want you to come and meet because I want to really understand your thinking about this, because I want an outside perspective. Why do you think I'm doing the wrong thing?"
"We went back and forth, had a good discussion, and then he's like, okay, great to meet you, and then kept doing the same thing, which by the way is very Mark.”
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Ben Thompson says consumer AI is winner-take-all because Muse could become the “aggregator of aggregators,” mediating everything online through one Tamagotchi-like character
“And then number three, the implications of winning the space are astronomical. This is like, this is the
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