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The 8 Most Revealing Quotes From the Big Zuckerberg Profile

A massive new <em>New Yorker</em> profile of Facebook’s CEO reveals exactly as much as he wants you to know.
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Mark Zuckerberg is impossible to profile. He’s a narrative anti-catalyst, who takes all the elements of a fantastic story, and renders them lifeless, probably on purpose. The latest New Yorker contains about 14,000 exceedingly well-crafted words about Zuckerberg, and yet, not once do we catch a glimpse of the man outside his carefully managed cocoon of self-awareness. When there is a reporter around, he’s never thinking aloud, or hanging around with his friends, or talking shit. He is never in the heat of the moment. He is the anti–Elon Musk.

But Zuckerberg says what he means to say. If you , Zuckerberg has telegraphed what his company

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