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Facebook can be well run without that being due to Zuck.

There are literally books that make this argument from insider perspectives (which doesn't mean it's true, but it is possible, and does happen regularly).

A basketball team can be great even if their coach sucks.

You can't attribute everything to the person at the top.

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That is true but in Meta’s case, it is tightly managed by him. I remember a decade ago a friend was a mid-level manager and would have exec reviews to Zuck, who could absorb information very quickly and redirect feedback to align with his product strategy.

He is a very hands CEO, not one who is relying on experts to run things for him.

In contrast, I’ve heard that Elon has a very good senior management team and they sort of know how to show him shiny things that he can say he’s very hands on about while they focus on what they need to do.

He created the company, if it is well run it was thanks to him hiring the right people. Regardless how you slice it he is a big reason it didn't fail, most companies like that fails when they scale up and hire a lot of people but facebook didn't, hiring the right people is not luck.

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