The Era of “Move Fast and Break Things” Is Over

I can’t remember the name of the VC, but there was an interview in the PBS Frontline special on Facebook where he made the comment: “back in 2007 when Mark said ‘move fast and break things’ it didn’t yet sound completely sociopathic”.

There was also a funny moment where, again forgetting the interviewees name, recalled interviewing Mark Zuckerberg at a TechCrunch Disrupt even in 2012 or 2013. She described in graphic and vivid detail the unusual physical response Mark had to a question about privacy, especially the extreme face and neck sweating.

To be fair to Mark though, I have seen one or two quotes that are taken out of context from him if you look at the whole paragraph, so obviously there is a bias against him. But perhaps it corrects for the bias for him that existed previously.

Asking the questions proposed in the article requires long term thinking and it seems to me that long term thinking isn’t rewarded in the current version of the global capitalist market. I’d be interested if anyone can name any ‘unicorns’ that fit these requirements?

I can’t off the top of my head