What Mark Zuckerberg thinks about startups

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1. 10 Jun 2026

   Our readingTools this complicated need a ten-to-fifteen-year horizon, which is why they belong in a philanthropy rather than a startup.

   Their wordsI think part of the theory is like if you're building tools that are this complicated, you kind of want to have a 10 to 15 year time horizon on on building out these efforts.

   ↗“Curing All Disease by next century is too conservative" - Mark Zuckerbergyoutube.com 5th of 15 in this recording