ClaimsMark Zuckerberg

“So there’s six or seven key unknowns that we just have multiple teams going out and trying to attack different approaches at that.”

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO, interviewee 24 March 2022 The Tim Ferriss Show #582: Mark Zuckerberg transcript (The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss)

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Zuckerberg said that a 15-year project he described has six or seven key unknowns, and that multiple teams are trying different approaches to them.

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Describes Meta's internal team organization.

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Mark Zuckerberg, “Zuckerberg said that a 15-year project he described has six or seven key unknowns, and that multiple teams are trying different approaches to them.” (said 24 March 2022). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_102eeef8a75b, method 0.1.0+3f84d14d, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_102eeef8a75b

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