Profile of Mark Zuckerberg

Jeremy Stern for Colossus: For 23 years, the single fact dominating every moment of every room he’s been in is that he is Mark Zuckerberg. It’s been true not just at Meta but in his Congressional testimonies and court proceedings, at Taylor Swift concerts and the Prada runway show at Milan Fashion Week, at dinners with friends and the birthday parties of his daughters’ friends. It’s been true even in his meetings with heads of state, including his own commanders in chief, to whom it must occur as they’ve tried at various points to squeeze and threaten and blame him for everything from electoral outcomes to ethnic cleansings, that one day they will be out of office, and eventually dead, while Zuckerberg—whose unique majority control of Meta’s voting power makes his removal effectively impossible—could in 50 years still be ruler of his empire. Today, that empire has 3.6 billion users, a market capitalization of $1.6 trillion, and has averaged, over nearly a quarter century, the addition…