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Unpacking Mark Zuckerberg’s Midlife Crisis
Is Mark Zuckerberg's style transformation just a matter of a change in personal taste? Or is the infamous tech mogul trying to tell us something about Meta?
Lauren Goode: If we're talking about Mark Zuckerberg in his hoodie era and the message being, "I'm too busy building incredible products to care about what I look like," I feel like this really took a turn during the Sam Bankman-Fried FTX scandal in 2022. If you look at some of the older tech founders, I think that they're clearly influenced by the space race, and you can tell because of the billions of dollars that they're investing into their hobbies, which happen to not be Greek T-shirts that say pathei-mathos. Zoë Schiffer: I think that Mark Zuckerberg being in a more lovable kind of cultural era while he's simultaneously walking back crucial content moderation efforts and shying away from politics on Threads and cozying up to Trump is a really scary prospect.
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