ClaimsMark Zuckerberg

“But for a combination of reasons, we just haven’t focused quite as much until the last few years, especially as we’ve worked on a lot of this metaverse work and virtual reality and things like that, we haven’t focused as much on things that are just awe-inspiring.”

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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Until the last few years, Meta had not focused as much on building awe-inspiring things, as opposed to widely used products.

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Reasoning

Subjective characterization of company focus with undefined terms.

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Mark Zuckerberg, “Until the last few years, Meta had not focused as much on building awe-inspiring things, as opposed to widely used products.” (said 24 March 2022). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_5d072d8f25da, method 0.1.0+3f84d14d, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_5d072d8f25da

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