CS50 Lecture by Mark Zuckerberg - 7 December 2005

On 7 December 2005, Mark Zuckerberg joined CS50 for a guest lecture about Facebook and computer science. With Professor Michael D. Smith. Shared with permission.
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[@leopardduck4490]

Crazy that Mark Zuckerberg gave a lecture on computer science and only like 20 people showed up

[@thegoodthebadandtheugly579]

Who dat?

[@Diamondlight04]

@@nassiratti8542 yea and someone got there late lol

[@Vikasslytherine]

It's to ensure social distancing.

[@ev.c6]

This is not a lecture. He does not go into many technical details. I'd call it a presentation of a real world application of some of the things the students learn in the course. It's cool anyways, but ain't a lecture.

[@nicholasmaniccia1005]

@@ev.c6 it is a lecture

[@davidr4523]

Several thoughts 1. His communication skills and intelligence at the age of 21 is off of the charts. 2. He clearly saw the greatness in Google and Amazon back in 2005. 3. He was very open in his lecture here. He was not holding any information back. 4. If you could go back to 2005, what questions would you ask him? 5. These Harvard students asked some very high quality questions back in 2005.

[@Alex-wn8qh]

These are 5 thoughts

[@haidemsuk]

I would've asked him how he plans to scale the system, but i already know the answer now

[@PabloDiaz-lm2it]

@@Alex-wn8qh not too sure about the first one

[@jeanzhang6171]

@@Alex-wn8qh your mom a thought

[@sejiva]

@@PabloDiaz-lm2it true, lmao. Mark kept saying ‘like’ and took forever to get to the point of what he was trying to say.

[@smartereveryday]

Watching this in 2021 is fascinating. I just played the whole thing while editing a video. Seems like a nice guy with good ideas who is trying hard.

[@pewpew1005]

wait why is this suddenly being recommended to all?

[@youenjoy8468]

Love your channel, if you ever come to Utah I’ll take you to a soccer game

[@Reddblue]

Yeah, I know right? He should start a tech company or something.

[@DaGhost141]

I believe people stop seeing the human behind a person once he becomes that rich and exposed to the public. I'm pretty sure he's still somebody with good ideas it's just that it's hard to pull them off at such a scale. No matter what Facebook does it will reflect back on him and thus there will always be more bad than good PR about him.

[@mijo5964]

Brainwashed ^^

[@0rekeroni]

It's crazy how few people were in that massive lecture hall. All my CS classes are almost fully packed. It goes to show how competitive it is now.

[@D3RMA5T3R]

first lecture: even larger halls are crowed, but at the end the semester: only a fraction of the students are around. And once you reach higher levels: lots of people already stopped studying or won't visit lectures

[@The_Quaalude]

They didn't have apps back then 😭

[@derekmeade1741]

yeah it’s way too over saturated now

[@RevRundown]

@@derekmeade1741 no such thing as over-saturated. its just really competitive.

[@acraze2287]

@@RevRundown uh no there is definitely such a thing as over-saturated

[@commercio3564]

This feels like a rare look into a very important piece of history.

[@jettnash5217]

I wonder how many people have been adversely affected by Facebook

[@f_USAF-Lt.G]

The crowd exemplifies the enthusiasm in the field at the time... Back then, cloning a web page's layout & functions - wasn't availible, and MOOCs were the campaign for affordable education

[@Buttington_Headerson]

I don't think it's particularly important.

[@themollymachine]

It would be nice to take a time machine back in time and stop this piece of shit from hurting humanity

[@Boxscot49]

Nothing he has done could be considered “important” whatsoever

[@grandhighwizard7832]

This guy seems smart. He should steal data or something

[@zeitgeist2720]

Not stealing when you give it to them

[@dylanjulve5374]

@@zeitgeist2720 still is stealing when the consent is manufactured

[@ermwhatdaheck]

@@zeitgeist2720 yeah totally, the multiple lawsuits including one on the misleading of customers about their data privacy were all just for pretend

[@vl2663]

He should ban people for no reason on his own platform

[@vl2663]

Oh wait

[@stellar8689]

I undersand why he added a Like button on facebook

[@kurrasamanyu7238]

😂😂😂😂

[@MrEmrys24]

Like I know right

[@Skandawin78]

🤣🤣

[@wasiquehaider4727]

Awesome 😂

[@jolsson8816]

looooool

[@Catge]

He was 21 during this presentation!

[@KH_waebak]

Omg I'm 20 and I'm feeling like a lil kid

[@ansh4131]

@@KH_waebak same

[@Samikshagupta425]

I'm 19

[@G0ddEityawesome]

This is proof that the current mark is actually a synth. He used to be much more human than right now

[@TheRonway25]

Fallout gang

[@momscandaytrade]

Life happened

[@tonymk-ii2614]

Running the most popular social media platform probably sucks the life outta you

[@upliftsouls]

Running a multi billion dollar corporation will destroy your soul

[@stop_bringing_me_up_in_goo167]

Money is poisonous

[@MucciciBandz]

Did he just start his lecture by saying "Yo"?

[@erikrusso9808]

That's basically what university is like

[@aaquibtayyabi]

@@hwfq34fajw9foiffawdiufhuaiwfhw It still is.

[@mr.ketchup698]

@@hwfq34fajw9foiffawdiufhuaiwfhw yep

[@assootoshmotah2350]

@@hwfq34fajw9foiffawdiufhuaiwfhw zoomer

[@mihail263]

@@hwfq34fajw9foiffawdiufhuaiwfhw yes

[@szechjuan]

Professor: Here's a great influence in computer science, creator of an already popular social platform. He will be lecturing you today Mark: Yo

[@ng4318]

ngl when he opened with "yo!" i was like..."alright. i might work for this guy if he ever becomes big."

[@cezarstietot2417]

42(1) likes lol

[@ekkoekko4610]

He was pretending so hard to be a human

[@Hector012085]

🤣🤣🤣

[@victordogaru]

@Sigma Chadkiller having an idea and actually doing it are two different things. Maybe he was "inspired" by other people's ideas but he has actually done it.

[@budmb2]

40:57 “If people feel like their information isn’t private, then that screws us in the long-term…” - Mark Zuckerberg (2005)

[@BradleyG01]

i like how you have to put (2005) next to it as mark has since gotten numerous software updates and shares very few attributes that mark version 2005 had.

[@lil_buck3t616]

It didn't aged well xD

[@nick15684]

That aged like milk.

[@WatercraftGames]

now ppl don't know about it

[@sockettgirl]

ppl here are talking like they are the head of NSA huh, yall dont know jacksht

[@alistairblaire6001]

It's crazy how fast it all happened. I started college in 2003 and I believe I made a Facebook account in 2004 when they added my university. You could go in and add your specific courses and use it to easily contact people in your classes. Just a year later Zuckerberg is giving lectures? Currently I've disagreed so much with the company's actions that I've since deleted my account, but I still find it amazing how quickly Facebook took over the world.

[@iVinicius9990]

I wouldn't say amazing, but terrifying since it only got this big because of CIA's money trough In-Q-Tel. So it's just been an spying scam for so long

[@paulregener7016]

It’s almost like a plan is unfolding

[@artvandelay6306]

Once they went public, and really accelerated monetization efforts, the company really went from benign to malignant.

[@vimalcurio]

And now what do you think of Meta?

[@Cr5pt0Puzzl3B0x]

@@paulregener7016 not everyone is plotting to take over the world

[@muhammadshayanusman5540]

Harvard: "Mark Zuckerburg is a good influence" Mark: "This is like the first times I have been to a lecture at Harvard..."

[@Steph1]

Regardless of being a lizard, that was a good joke

[@salami99]

Good influence for stealing data and selling it to who know? Not mark. Just sell the data

[@abdielreyessarabia3367]

“Maybe some of you guys will come out of this thinking that taking CS or engineering stuff at Harvard is actually sort of useful” lmao

[@IanousGaming]

Listening to what he says, he clearly knew what he was talking about and was probably ahead of the curve. Why waste time in pointless lectures when you can be innovating.

[@tibofordeyn1529]

Harvard never thought that lmao

[@lucaciandrei]

The interesting thing is that in this video he's like just 21 years old, but talks with an experience of a senior software engineer. I'm amazed of how well he knows the system, and also, how well he managed to fix the problems, and do bear in mind that it's like 2004, where internet data wasn't that available... with most of the problems they've battled... it's awesome.... no wonder he went with Facebook where he went... he definitely was in charge of the situation!

[@iorekby]

It's more like a software manager or software salesman I'd say, albeit a very well read manager or salesman. This is pretty high level, it's not that technical. But maybe that was intentional.

[@ronaldo19832]

It’s actually almost 2006 In the video. He was on his way to get with Sean Parker and raise hundreds of millions in founding

[@jinfin221]

That's why he built fb lol

[@ExtraordinaryFate]

He's an incredibly smart dude, but also an asshole. Guess it comes with being a robot.

[@eixilek8407]

@@ExtraordinaryFate go play sonic dude

[@_sonicfive]

TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Mark Zuckerberg discusses how he navigated computer science education to scale Facebook 06:58 Scaling the website without exponential expansion. 14:57 Leverage small amount of money to get powerful technology 22:04 Successful companies start with a core idea. 28:49 Facebook overcame caching and network issues to improve photo uploads 35:28 Facebook values CS knowledge in both tech and business 41:51 Facebook's wiki-type profile feature fell short, leading to a better summation method. 48:17 Facebook is launching a feature that allows people to clarify their relationships with others through bi-directional, factual statements. 54:31 Facebook growth is driven by human desire to look up people 1:00:38 Take the hardest courses to challenge yourself and learn the most.

[@DreamingConcepts]

missing timestamps: how he stole the project initially how he partnered with DARPA to start monitoring the entire world (releasing military surveillance application LifeLog, as Facebook) how he swallowed his entire competition (e.g. Instagram, WhatsApp)

[@ahmedabdulmalik4792]

thx man

[@ZombieProdigyUS]

Unbelievable how this was recorded for all of us to view 15 years later...

[@abdullaannoman332]

Yeah its kinda hard to think!

[@nietur]

What about it?

[@clinteastwood3064]

Harvard and many Universities record most of their lectures. Espessially guest lectures.

[@miamitten1123]

Why is that unbelievable? There was cameras in the 1800's too. Mark just happened to be successful. I'm pretty sure there's 100's of videos of those who 'failed'.

[@pentexsucks43]

What's so unbelievable about it?

[@maximus2978]

"its really important to do something instead of worrying about what end result will be" -mark zuckerberg

[@natteravn252]

"its really important to do something instead of worrying about what end result will be" -adolf hitler

[@subscribeorsus6862]

@@natteravn252 foreal though?

[@matthewb.7172]

That philosophy backfired a bit.

[@nikhilsati]

I think this is why Facebook is now declining... they added whole new extra features without caring of the end result... Facebook is no as interesting as it was before.

[@AstroCool99]

@@nikhilsati and thats why came up with instagram, as the backup to catch up on the wave. hes the genius no doubt

[@stingr9137]

😂 The professor introducing Mark must feel very silly now. “Social media network or something” 😂

[@Sueloveschoc]

Actually no, that pretty much sums up Facebook today. It’s something - is it a publisher, advertiser, ad clear house?

[@trendeeprod]

Exactly what I was thinking... He clearly didn't believe that social NETWORKS would become a THING 😂😂😂

[@samanshp]

Trendee Prod Why did he invite him to his class then? 🧐

[@trendeeprod]

@@samanshp probably out of curiosity 😂 Professor : "oh yeah sure this kid is doing this "THING" let's invite him and see what it is all about 😏"

[@adip8]

You think researchers care about these silly industrial things like Facebook? They don't. Their work is infinitely more difficult and interesting.

[@ReplayEcho]

I’m actually glad I clicked on this video. Lot of useful information to anyone who is interested in carving there own way in the tech world.

[@pragbikramshah3658]

👍

[@pedrojosecastro4851]

Back in 2005 he was a guest speaker for 10 students, and now this lecture has been watched by more than 2.4 million users! I think the lesson here is to never feel discouraged by a small audience and for sharing your knowledge. You never know who, where and what can you reach. Great video to watch!

[@SurvivingAnotherDay]

Thoughts? Agree?

[@sunsetman22]

an awful choice for a role model

[@businessincorpoated]

this guy sucks

[@jesspeed]

@@sunsetman22 maybe back in the days, nowadays not such a good role model when you actually find out what he’s doing behind the scene when it comes to digital privacy and trust. Add to the fact that his social media platform became as shit and toxic as Twitter, you could say he created the deadly sins of modern times.

[@allanmountford21]

Given that Facebook is amongst the handful of most significant entities of the 21st century so far, perhaps it's more significant that this video has not had at least 250 million views. I presume the answer is that the same video can be accessed on many other sites.

[@inancgumus4125]

15:02 - small people have significant leverage. 22:31 - don't be just too careful; it's more useful to make things happen and then apologize later. 24:51 - surround yourself with smart people.

[@noedie4973]

thanks for this one!

[@clementyau7192]

i mean the second one is true in a way, if you ask for permission and get denied then nothing new will ever change. easier to ask for forgiveness than beg for permission. obviously that doesnt apply to him now

[@ronniekregar3482]

@@clementyau7192 hey, if it wasn't for the slaves we wouldn't have discovered the world. We just apologized for it after.

[@adeyemigbeleyi9677]

Funny, I was reading this particular comments, at the point the video got to that particular part, where mark made the statement.

[@abeidiot]

2nd statemtent makes a lot of sense if you view from a dev's perspective instead of CEO

[@eweeks101]

He is 21 years old in this video. He'd already been offered $75 million to sell the whole company! Six months after this video Yahoo would offer $1 BILLION! One year later, at the age of 23 years old, he became a BILLIONAIRE! Never Sell Your Dream!

[@UnknownUser-gd3ls]

Then a decade later, gets questioned by Congress over his purposeful choice on how he deals with private user information. While also having hundreds of people genuinely wishing he would die.

[@dancrooks1490]

@@UnknownUser-gd3ls and is worth 52 billion dollars and thus gives zero fucks what normal people think of him.

[@MusicGameFinatic999]

@@UnknownUser-gd3ls he is also the 5th richest man in the world. Who are you?

[@andr3s306]

Jacobs why is he an asshole?

[@rrmradi6868]

call him an asshole you probably have or had a Facebook account. Get a life you sheep@thomas jacobs

[@Ronalexandernyc]

This is proof that we learn by going through process, not the other way around.

[@MamaMia84oo7]

A wise man once said “You start learning when you understand a problem you’re having”. Something like that. But the point is, that wiseman, was me. Yes I just quoted myself. Thank you very much. -A wise man

[@The_Quaalude]

@@MamaMia84oo7 L

[@MamaMia84oo7]

@@The_Quaalude W son. Always W.

[@GillGrossPredictionTracker]

Hell nah I process by going through learn

[@yukein4242]

he seems extremely intelligent and aware of what he was doing even at such a young age. he was not just a CS nerd with a lucky idea, he had and still have deep understanding and instinct on how to make a company work, how to manage and organize a business. No surprise he became who he is now.

[@badcholesterol]

But I bet he doesn’t know how to manage his pointers

[@meruem6995ujjoooo]

@@badcholesterol what does pointers

[@badcholesterol]

Meruem variable that points to a memory location

[@Majibu101]

He stole the idea......

[@vijays296]

@@Majibu101 "Good artists copy, great artists steal"

[@zg3671]

He actually sounds human. Eventually he was replaced with a robot

[@user-kr2hd2fg8c]

Reptilian

[@logusgraphics]

The more intelligent one becomes, the less emotionally oriented one appears to others. That doesn’t mean he is not human. It just means he doesn’t have the emotional intelligence of an ape.

[@MrVecheater]

He said he was human. Seems this is from his transition

[@logusgraphics]

Flow Ryan but he is implying Zuckerberg is currently less human or not even at all human nowadays.

[@MrVecheater]

@@logusgraphics exactly. Now he is a robot

[@dnam82]

This guy looks very smart, he should look into entrepreneurship

[@secretprivate1171]

dnam82 lol 😂

[@biolaowolabi2407]

Lol

[@jones2914]

funny and original comment

[@Fanaz10]

@@gnx10111 sheeeeeeeesh, what a nerd

[@Steve_305]

Well he is Jewish so has the advantage to be 1

[@emilioandrescavanzo9879]

who in 2024 watching this? this video is gold, such an inspiration for me :)

[@juntjoonunya9216]

Why, you looking to manipulate people beliefs too?

[@thuggy67]

This guy looks like he'll be surrounded by senators someday.

[@passionisinspiration1912]

@@kxlee335 stfu

[@jacobdaniels3246]

@@kxlee335 stfu

[@jacobdaniels3246]

@@kxlee335 stfu

[@jacobdaniels3246]

@@kxlee335 stfu

[@peptobismolveins]

@@jacobdaniels3246 he actually stfu-ed 😂😂

[@Benderthegr865]

6:19 Stoner shows up late: I must be really high professor looks like Zuckerberg today

[@baiyuli97]

He’s incredibly insightful from both a technical and business standpoint here. If you met someone this young with this much knowledge on distributed systems even today you’d be shocked. Not to mention all the great points he brought up about where technology was headed (e.g. renting servers and cloud computing paradigm).

[@JoshOdhiambo]

this is basic for highschoolers now, idk what you mean

[@MegaGrawp]

He sounds surprisingly dumb actually.

[@rologee0444]

@@JoshOdhiambo basic for high schoolers??🤣😂🤣🤣😂, I j left high school 6 months ago in may, I can tell u rn….👀, no one Including me, knows a thing about wtf mark is sayin in this vid, at least rn I’m trying to learn but bro, don’t underestimate the current gen, they don’t give a fuck abt building an empire, they stuck.

[@xyjifr]

@@JoshOdhiambo fr? Maintaining redundancy requires consensus algorithms like Paxos. I think most of the undergraduates have no clue abt what Raft, Paxos or MVCC is rn.

[@Helpmegetsubswithnovideo-uv5bw]

@@JoshOdhiambo bullshit. tell me one school with this much cs in their correculum. but then again, youtube comments... full of pretenders.

[@palakdhingra2828]

Watching this video in 2023, gives you goosebumps with the fact that how enormously the tech industry has grown in the past few years. Mark talking about renting servers in room that's a history for newer generations now, given we have cloud now.

[@sweetsweet4390]

The data "cloud" is still hosted on physical servers.

[@mohamedamir5809]

How amazing it could be if Mark comes in 2022 with a new update of this lecture, enhanced with his 17 y experience in technology, business and senators

[@gokhan.]

he wouldnt be as open as this video probably

[@SaadPatel]

Ans senators lol

[@austinklohn533]

we could learn about how he ruined his entire business in a single year

[@spacegerrit9499]

"please put on your VR headsets, this is a META lecture, thank you.. Hello? Where is everyone?"

[@bevanmcnicholl2525]

META VERSE

[@ShakaUVM]

"Will this be on the final?" "No."

[@gierno4828]

could be Jesus Christ himself in there

[@anderivative]

wtf I thought for sure this was a guest lecture series type of elective and thats why it was empty. Nope, CS50 is their intro to CS lol fukkin scrubs

[@RamaSubbaiya]

22:37 *Mark:* I think its more useful to make things happen and apologize later. *Me:* Ah! Now I see your strategy.

[@Abhinavsingh-250as]

On point 🤣🤣😅

[@user-lw5oc1tt8k]

Very Underrated Comment.

[@Wolfenry]

It worked tho

[@charleserie6697]

"Move Fast and Break Things" - Break things and apologize later.... hahahaha Strategy on Point!

[@XenogearsPS]

That's actually deep.

[@Jackson_Zheng]

The part of the video where he mentioned how much work goes into open-sourcing software gave me a new appreciation for github.

[@trudyandgeorge]

Interesting. My take was that he didn't give a shit. It wasn't too hard, it was "nothing in it for us therefore too hard" sort of thing. Mind you I could be totally wrong. Just how it landed on my ears

[@mutumaraibumagiri9069]

Humble beginnings. Saying facebook is "whatever you wanna call it". 16 years later its a monster.

[@AvantiRold]

It was so new at that time, that there wasn't a definition for it. Right now we call them "web apps".

[@miscellaneousmedia3753]

The Zucc AI became corrupted and went rogue

[@lilronnyg5724]

I don’t know anything about CS or even plan to learn it, but I watched this lecture as a business major and I still feel like I got so much insight on entrepreneurship.

[@natedrake7163]

I just like alien history

[@ShaferHart]

You didn't get anything lol

[@cybercery5271]

@@ShaferHart I didn't get anything, the OP probably got something.

[@fictionisfake4280]

Idiot business majors think that every lucky guy that gets rich and has generic platitudes has "insights".

[@maximorodriguez6849]

​@@fictionisfake4280 Luck definitely plays a part but you can't deny that Facebook has not only remained relevant, but above the competition since its inception and Mark has definitely been key to their continued success.

[@PegassiLampadati]

13 Years ago: Lectures university students on Information systems and Computer science. 13 Years Later: Explains the definition of 'internet' to a bunch of confused Senators(Grandpas).

[@alexandrufilipescu1301]

I am actually a developer myself and I find it really interesting, even I have taken notes.

[@alexandrufilipescu1301]

@JHB Luck That is true, he changed very weirdly and I am not sure why....

[@kneesnap1041]

@@alexandrufilipescu1301 that's what corporations do to a person.

[@wouldbabyhitlerkillyou4217]

@@kneesnap1041 asif he wasn't always a snake...

[@kneesnap1041]

@@wouldbabyhitlerkillyou4217 don't kid yourself zuckerburg was just a smart dude. Corporations change people, money changes people. There isn't a way around that

[@romelbdp]

i would say mark is the most underrated CEO, while he is really technically sound and also have extensive understanding of the business side of product, quite a rare combination imo.

[@RazorIance]

not in tech these days, you heard of elon musk?

[@romelbdp]

@@RazorIance have you failed to fathom the essence of what i have just said there, or you just want to disapprove everything that doesn't seem suiting for your inferior mind?

[@Atroll995]

​@romelbdp haha that was such a good reply, he couldn't say anything back.

[@user-yf5xs2zf5l]

Most underrated CEO of all time ig

[@adamlee9347]

"Make things happen, appologize later" -Mark Zuckerberg

[@abdAlmajedSaleh]

he kept that one going

[@hariveturi4193]

@@abdAlmajedSaleh hahahhahaahha xD

[@dj3904]

smash cut to congressional hearing

[@imstupidbut1603]

Mark Zuckerberg: “Congresswoman”

[@ponguso1]

and thats why billionaires shouldnt exist

[@QuesoDipp]

I like how he continually fishes for "CS questions", but seems more than happy to give genuine responses to whatever anyone wants to ask.

[@williambuckelli8362]

how is it this lecture is empty of people?

[@imamulmalikchowdhury7659]

+William Buckelli it was 2005 you know , he wasnt as popular as he is now back then

[@mohitkumar_aka_minto]

Coz most of the people were busy building cool things in their dorm rooms. Those who build things are rarely seen in events. Just like Mark, he too used to skip classes and events.

[@EduardoKicks]

what a troll lmao

[@dcjunkieful]

this video is from 2005, maybe a lot of people didn't even know what facebook was

[@kendrickjg]

You're talking out of your butt. The internet was vastly popular in the year 2005 so your comment is irrelevant.

[@sanjay_singh]

For each technology or technique, he was talking, He mentioned " I don't know if you guys have used it". Just shows how he was ahead in the college days.

[@RJAY2K]

As soon as he said "Yo" I looked at the comment section

[@marekkhella3131]

Hahahaha

[@Poetry4Peace]

same tf ;LOL

[@matteo_gabriele]

Haahhahaha i did the same

[@flatline7310]

Ironically it's the only class that isn't spending time on Facebook.

[@A2Kaid]

+flatline7310 Lol that's so funny I actually had to take the time out of my busy day to write this comment.

[@asicaery7881]

flatline7310 they are looking at Facebook itself

[@whizzardblizzard5696]

flatline7310 software development weren’t hot back then

[@maryanne2025]

Uh I was a freshman at the time . Facebook was pretty popular at my university at the the time. I didn’t have a smartphone or the app at the time though

[@Tdymex]

They are doing a debug session on Facebook. That’s why

[@thomasn708]

The concepts he talked about are normal today but advanced CS topics at that time like microarchitecture, distributed systems, load balancing, caching layer, etc that big tech were just figuring out. If I was a first or even second year CS student this would flew over my head. But I’m amazed the students were asking some very good questions.

[@adamdubsky1105]

Agree, Im almost at the end of my CS degree and still had some stuff fly over my head

[@thomasn708]

@@adamdubsky1105 Don't worry that's normal. That's because most concepts taught in school cannot be easily fit into a hands on project that fit into a single semester. Thus the hands on portion barely scratch the surface. Once you go to work and see them in practice everything will click into place.

[@The.top.of.AI.]

I love when he talks about the "lawyer" issues... at the time we didn't really know what he was talking about, but now looking back... wow

[@aecet9652]

Wym

[@bluetech2809]

funny how the lecture theatre is almost empty. Imagine trying to get a seat at a lecture by Zuckerberg these days.

[@moose-1]

This guy seems smart. He should look into diluting my shares.

[@nghiatruong1315]

Underrated Comment right here

[@glipk]

Lmao

[@coin5207]

Have you asked him to dilute it yet? If so, what were your shares diluted down to?

[@adityap8387]

@@coin5207 0.05 percent

[@AmaanBilwar]

We got an Eduardo over here

[@aram00001]

incredible that at this time the website had 400M daily page views and there are 20 people attending the lecture

[@jonclement]

back when startups weren't cool and everyone thought that it took more then a few people to build something impactful

[@aram00001]

@@jonclement yes

[@jaaan2914]

Well, it didn't, so...

[@samsmusichub]

This Mark guy seems capable. I look forward to observing his career as he gets into tech.

[@litolitprindle4564]

“They started off trying to make something cool not trying to make a company” real spill

[@darkMuffin31]

Also a great way to burn out creating useless things that only you think are cool. These days he doesn’t invest in a business unless it has an Amazon-like obsession with customers.

[@Hammeredveracity]

@@darkMuffin31 False

[@megadeth_9611]

@@darkMuffin31 that's false

[@deathstar4794]

At 21, I discovered that you should not get drunk close to drains. That was my pinnacle of wisdom for that year.

[@Jack-cw8bw]

As a 20 year old, why not

[@aidanhowe2953]

what the hell happened

[@Zubayer_Islam_Rezoan]

@@aidanhowe2953 He got drunk close to a drain.

[@schmud143]

@@Jack-cw8bw Hey now that you’re 21 do you understand?

[@josephjoestar77]

@@schmud143 I just hit 21 last month and I'm still confused about what I should be doing for my future, currently majoring in Information Systems

[@ddys9824]

I see. People back in 2005 loved to sit in the middle rows too. This tradition carries on today

[@hm-uq6mc]

Came here after the announcement of CS2, didn't realize its already CS50 out there

[@Karim-Hamdi]

Lmaoo saaame

[@ilustrado7291]

"AS TECHNOLOGY BECOMES MORE GENERIC AND LESS EXPENSIVE, THE LEVERAGE POINT BECOMES MORE IN PEOPLE." - I couldn't agree more on this one.

[@knowiz8071]

I thought I was the only one who got that point. And the one about doing things then apologizing later (privacy issues).

[@aftabansari3845]

What does that mean? Please elaborate

[@dylanhood8311]

I think about streamers. Access to stream gear has become easier and streaming is oversaturated. Early adapters who were able to afford gear and have the knowledge on how to did well. Now, technology is more generic and less expensive. You’ve now got to have something that separates you from the rest. Leverage

[@Mrityunjay7]

@@aftabansari3845 I think something like how these days micro-transactions make more money than paid games

[@anggalol]

No one: KZbin algorithm: Here watch Mark Zuckerberg giving a lecture about CS for over 10 years ago

[@ethanvu7360]

it really be like that

[@WiteBot]

I watched the social network last night (on chrome). So Google knew. And they won, I clicked on this video obviously

[@andrescabrera6097]

Shit I’m hip, can’t say Facebook aloud cause google be listening to you

[@roastedpotato5514]

actually, 15 years ago

[@gseric4721]

xD

[@hemantsharma1834]

41:00 "If people feel like their information isn't private, then that screws us in the long term." LOL

[@orangemint2890]

Famous last words

[@markwashington7731]

wow you actually sat through this ?

[@nashsmith2303]

Cringed at that part. Also the lack of detail and awkwardness of the question "How did you come up with the idea for facebook?"

[@hackerprime9722]

It seems his sentiments on that changed over time.

[@HtheKing]

@@markwashington7731 we just built different bro

[@_sidrs]

This video was sitting in my Watch Later for very long time, I tried watching it a few years back, but it didn't make much sense, I couldn't understand much of it. But now that I have some more context, a lot of what Mark said is actually making sense and I am able to understand it and see where I can possibly use it. What I took away from this: - One recurring topic I'm noticing everywhere, even here is the 'breaking down' or 'Discretization' of the problems and then coming up with solutions for those smaller discrete parts, but we tend to overlook this approach kind of. So yeah start discretizing things. - Building efficient frameworks and architechtures is as important as having optimized algos and stuff. This ensures scalability and helps in mitigating in case something goes wrong at the implementation level. - Spend more time designing rather than implementing. - Premature optimization is the root of all evil, so just get your hands dirty. - Do the hardest shit you possibly can.

[@wallstreettalks101]

When you feel like you're failing just because few people willing to listen to you, remember how many people attended this Zuck's class in 05

[@karis7539]

dont forget he had 60 000 000$ worth of Facebook shares on Jan 1 2005

[@chubbypompie553]

this is insane that only like 15 people showed up to hear advice from Mark Zuckerburg, if he were to do something like this today an entire football stadium would be filled.

[@theastuteangler]

facebook was barely in the mainstream at this point, if at all. it was a niche website in use in universities and colleges. not really insane if you think about it. everything starts somewhere. oh wait, Gen Z thinks everything began with them.

[@FlockofSmeagles]

Would the whole school show up? Sure, but a football stadium to hear a computer science lecture? I don't know. Definitely would be a turn out, but no where near that crazy.

[@ngndnd]

@@FlockofSmeagles everyone and their mom wants to go into computer science now

[@FlockofSmeagles]

@@ngndnd Mm, computer science is appealing to most people. I'll give you that. At least up to a point. A lot of people see the aesthetic of programming. Once they realize that it's mostly trudging through data day in and day out. They skate on it. I still doubt that a football stadiums worth of people would show up to a computer science lecture.

[@0dayyy]

@@FlockofSmeagles that’s true, i’m in my first year of cs and after the first algebra exam we had, almost everyone dropped out

[@theludvigmaxis1]

What’s strange is he sounded fairly normal here. Seems like his robotic demeanor came later

[@uziboozy4540]

The elite bruh, they conquer 'em all.

[@hyperreal]

He's worried about every word he says will get scrutinized by media and critics as he represents one of the largest tech companies in the world now. People truly hate the rich.

[@liamcawley6440]

when your daily decisions affect a couple billion dollars i bet that comes immediately

[@rodney_jaspers]

Downsides of being a face of a corperate. You loose your own identity to the outside world and have to be carefull with what you say and do

[@zacharymcafee8295]

Idk man. He’s got a lot on his conscience. Facebook has exploited and demonstrated evil in this world unfathomable to sane individuals. He’s seen a lot, and pays people a fuck ton of money to sit through the trauma of witnessing and filtering out all the most messed up content that gets reported. Include litigation issues he’s faced with left and right, and the kind of lobbying people are trying to do with him *always*. All the while continuing to pursue revolutionary tech (meta. The idea must’ve been in his mind since this video.) it’s a lot. I’d lose my humanity too, or at least, it would be at the bottom of my list of concerns. But hey that’s not to say I’d be surprised if he came out as a reptile or robot or some shit later lmao.

[@Haidersyed_1]

I have watched this lecture 8-10 times over the past five years, yet it always feels fresh to me. It doesn't seem like the 2005 lecture where he discussed interesting things at that time.

[@Erlingfc09]

Helped you in your career?

[@cameronmetz5044]

22:10 "amazon was a little more calculated ..." even Zuck knew Jeff was an evil mastermind compared to all these other tech startups . . .

[@SuperAmrTube]

That’s why he said it was more “calculated” not complicated lmao

[@aabc]

He meant that in a positive way.. i think he was trying to say how visionary bezos was

[@eazyblstr6482]

I feel like the audiance doesn't really know this guy that much... If they only knew what was gonna happen in the years following

[@myiq170]

Tangent Theta Are you kidding me who ever said he was a great programmer, a genius...... he is a rich man.......you all watch too many movies, he's a good programmer, sub par compared to his peers then and now.... Dustin M. is the person that you're thinking of.... wow its so crazy....but expected even if you saw the movie, where would you obtain hes a great programmer.... anyway i am not trying to bash him, if i was to sum him up in a phrase I would say.... "he has incredible timing" as a programmer I would rate him on a scale from 1-10 a (4) you want to know a great programmer check out my old professor from Harvard David Malan... cs.harvard.edu/malan/cv/malan.pdf

[@wopmf4345FxFDxdGaa20]

+Tangent Theta Well if you ask from anyone, why do they use facebook, probably nobody is going to answer: "Because their database management is great". Technical details are of course important part, but it's just one part among many other important things. Often a technically better solution does not get people's attention and trust. I think about how certain social medias get popular, it's a lot like a snowball effect. People join because their friends are in there.

[@Beingskilled]

+Dylan Barton Yes probably they don't. Video was recorded in 2005.

[@fancypanda]

+wopmf4345FxFDxdGaa20 This is a COMPUTER SCIENCE class. People are there because they think of stuff like "database scaleability."

[@wopmf4345FxFDxdGaa20]

Erebus Yes of course it is, but the discussion above was about social networks and which of them got popular . . . :) And that is not only about computer science, it has very much to do with other things too.

[@HandlewasNo]

One of the most influential people in human history, being awkward as hell and genuine. Glad to see it

[@ShaferHart]

He was not awkward here just regular dude giving a presentation. _Now_ he is awkward.

[@cat3584]

He wasn’t awkward at all, he’s awkward now because he’s not being genuine

[@fruitygranulizer540]

@@ShaferHart he's not awkward here because here, he was just a knowledgable man sharing what he learned in the process of making an innocent social media application. now, he knows his app is a shitty cesspool of poor censorship and blatant data theft, and can't present himself innocently in public. he has no choice but to be awkward in public.

[@UberBossPure]

@Charles White at the time he was worth more then ten millions of dollars of course he don’t shakes

[@Tendertroll1]

What makes you think that he’s awkward

[@juanpablo2097]

Seeing Mark talking about PHP and the connection that usually does with Apache Xampp to a MySQL database, 17 years ago is just amazing mate

[@reymartcanuel7151]

For those who are here and asked this same question: What's CS50? It's actually "Introduction to Computer Science"

[@Juniperus_Godegara]

Thank you for explaining, the title makes sense now.

[@enzoys]

That was in their first period?! Damn, for 20 students just after their high school they made some good questions and followed up really well in that class

[@MaricarManalo-ed9so]

Listening to him, 16 years later now, he was able to achieve what he wanted for Facebook. I am studying CS50 now. Thank you for this lecture, Harvard.

[@NeThsDomain]

You also want to follow in his footsteps to ruin the world?

[@ringofdreal1374]

@@NeThsDomain Wow, you're so cool. Is Dota really fun to play?

[@ArchMithrillas6976]

@@ringofdreal1374 lol seethe

[@mango-strawberry]

@@NeThsDomain if that makes op a multi billionaire then why not?

[@Luix]

probably the best mark zuckerberg video I've seen so far

[@SharifAlkatib]

Protip for this talk: turn on KZbin Captions and you can read people's questions.

[@staceman7981]

At the time of this lecture, Facebook had raised about $12 million in capital and was already valued at $150 million. Mark held nearly 50% of the shares. So he was coming back to school a year after founding Facebook, with a net worth of tens of millions of dollars. And based on how he presented himself in this lecture, you can see he was worth every penny and more. Having a great idea (or stealing one) is step one, but that idea doesn't turn into a trillion dollar company without the key people being damn smart and very strategic. Kudos to Mr. Zuckerberg.

[@bossgd100]

@Charles White lol

[@AbOrigineFidelis]

Exactly, everyone has ideas...an idea holds no value in itself, the value is in execution

[@Beverly_007]

Well said.

[@nsebast]

He was worth millions of dollars on paper only though. The company was making losses. So let's say if he quits, the company could easily turn to zero.

[@havoknightO]

I disagree

[@IARRCSim]

Facebook's like feature had a bug back then that redirected all likes to Mark's speech instead of the website. Mark sounded ditzy for years until that bug got fixed.

[@lumanation2032]

lol

[@DrJonesJazzMore]

hahaha

[@itsbalake6964]

Honestly Mark is amazing and highly intelligent. Set aside all the lizard and robot nonsense

[@gitgudnga]

He seems to be more like a lizard robot now than then he seems like ur everyday confident adult in this

[@sergiopepe2210]

Yeah, intelligent enough to become a billionaire by selling your data...

[@gavcom4060]

@@sergiopepe2210 well sounds like an intelligent thing to do.

[@itsbalake6964]

@danny supersell good save 😅

[@jamescricketson9464]

You brought it up

[@LeadRakFPS]

The people that decided not to show up that day....oooof. No one will ever believe their story about how they decided to skip their CS50 class that day and it's hilarious.

[@johnworden5633]

everyone will believe their story they went to harvard

[@LeadRakFPS]

@John Worden No, not really. There are a lot of people that have gone to Harvard. I personally know 2 people that graduated from Harvard and have a friend that did his fellowship in medical bioscience at Harvard. So, a lot of people have been to Harvard, but not everyone was in a lecture with Mark Zuckerberg.

[@tonyisnotdead]

is mark zuccerberg that special?

[@dannyfar7989]

@@tonyisnotdead His Political Influence is well above That of an average Harvard student, so is the Magnitude of his company. He might not be the Person anyone with a sound mind "aspires" to become. He had a lot of luck and "right place right Time Moments so as a Human beeing you might not Consider him that special. His Impact, The Political Power and the magnitude of the effect his actions had to this Planet are far avove average so yes: he is that special

[@1ariveradms]

Imagine being enrolled in that class and missing that lecture. Ouch.

[@ksun8993]

@Susuya Juuzou haha.savage comment. But surely he isn't Richard Feynmann or Walter Lewin to feel sad about .

[@julian92]

Susuya Juuzou yeah you’re right because cs is totally and easy subject to master. You would shit your pants trying to do what he did. Stfu and don’t speak on something you know nothing about.

[@princealmighty5391]

@Susuya Juuzou luck exists as much as your next level grammar does

[@princealmighty5391]

@Susuya Juuzou I know english isnt your first language but atleast try

[@princealmighty5391]

@Susuya Juuzou stfu

[@dayamayak6753]

This went from CS class to business class real quick

[@peterkovinski8476]

Bill Gate is now working at drug store

[@iorekby]

Like I keep saying though, Zuck was NOT a CS major. He was a Psychology major who took a couple of CS electives. He was Steve Jobs, not Steve Wozniak.

[@calamorta]

@@iorekby Maybe I need to watch more Jobs content but I've never seen him say technical stuff your regular salesperson wouldn't already say. Mark did here + Mark was a programming prodigy. He's not Wozniak but he's not Jobs either

[@EvanKiser]

20:17 "Theres not much corporate bureaucracy yet so I don't have to waste much time on that" If he only knew...

[@susannnico]

The most important thing that should be on everyone's mind currently should be to invest in different sources of income that doesn't depend on the government. Especially with the current economic crisis around the word. This is still a good time to invest in various stocks, Gold, silver and digital currencies.

[@lailaalfaddil7389]

That's so true. but if i may ask, do you trade all by yourself?

[@willhocks19]

This whole thread reads like it was written by AI😂

[@Manus_0813]

@@willhocks19 that’s because it was 😂 bunch of clowns I swear

[@trippy_b]

"Congressman!" "Congresswoman!" "Senator!" hits different now

[@AryanChaurasia10]

"Make things happen, appologize later"

[@shubhk782]

He means stupid by senator

[@user-pe9qg3hg3k]

14:45 Most underrated part of the entire thing. A website is a powerful thing, traditional websites are no longer just signposts for your business. Dynamic websites driven by content, sites where you don't even think about the site, where you don't even realise you are browsing a site, are the biggest businesses in the world.

[@Aestheticfreak]

“At no point in the past could you leverage such a small amount of money to get powerful enough technology to really touch people in the way you can today.” He said that 15 years ago. I believe it’s now even easier than it was in 2005 and endless amount of opportunities now than there were 15 years ago.

[@KACZMARCZYK4369]

What's your startup idea??

[@howardlam6181]

meaning way more competition.

[@landrybiangongone2583]

Here in 2023. Thank you so much fir the person who filmed❤

[@AlexReyesInHD]

This is a fascinating video. Mark Zuckerberg had a background in CS before college, but his level of knowledge in this video (2? Years after starting fb) is incredible. It really goes to show how much you can learn in a short period of time, and the value of just believing you can and will learn something as complicated as scaling fb to millions as a 21 year old. This video makes me want to start a company in order to learn like crazy

[@m_r2215]

Work experience makes you learn incredibly fast. School and classes do, too, but "real world" experience is a bit different.

[@komorebi4045]

This learn as you do method really makes you do something you think you cant

[@AlexReyesInHD]

Happy to say that a couple of months after watching this video I ended up leaving my job to start a company. This video continues to be an inspiration :)

[@fodaley]

Like Bill Gates, Zuckerberg was already creating software before he went to Harvard. He had several applications, the most renowned Synapse that received acquisition & job offers. I'm sure he had connections and mentorship of senior engineers along the way (like Gates).

[@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies]

@@AlexReyesInHD Hope its going well!

[@advitiayanand5974]

Hey, that's Pied Piper's CEO.

[@harrisonsherwood4028]

though this exact same thing lmao

[@bh33shma]

Richard Hendricks, the great!

[@Oliver-b7j]

XD

[@roy04]

Now he's more like Gilfoyle

[@bh33shma]

@@roy04 Gilfoyle doesn't talk much. And when he does, he'll be a literal savage, unlike Mark!😂😂

[@jamess.2491]

I double majored in CS and Economics in college before I got my MBA and I agree with him so much. The knowledge I gained in my CS Courses helped me in business incredibly and is one of the reasons I was lucky enough to be pretty successful. Just a tip for people who want to work in the business/management field: take some CS courses!

[@IhateAlot718]

When I taken Java programming, it reformatted my way of thinking logically and as a by product helped me with math and also breaking down problems to solve them.

[@binh]

I really hope that one day I'll come back to this video after I've achieved some success in tech.

[@noellenakaoka3709]

I would love to hear what the students in the room are up to now

[@aidanchang4429]

all working for him or google prob lol

[@sorkoh]

The red head in the middle is my sister, she’s dead btw

[@duyvo9148]

@@sorkoh oh shit

[@SeductiveSushi]

@@sorkoh LMAO

[@SeductiveSushi]

@@sorkoh not trying to be disrespectful but bro you cant just drop that out of nowhere lmaooo

[@Rauly_Caribe]

A piece of history was made on that day! Those students are so lucky to have had the chance to attend this lecture by Mark Zuckerberg (I have enjoyed their high-quality questions too!!)

[@rolandcucicea6006]

@@jon7707 probably wouldn't forget if u went to harvard

[@pragbikramshah3658]

@@jon7707nah way, harvard stays with you till you die

[@maxxxmodelz4061]

This might be one of the most intriguing and valuable lectures I've watched in years. This is the earliest days of FB development being discussed by the founder, who later went on to become one of the richest men in the world. Astounding bit of history here, folks.

[@dunkmm6]

I wonder where are the people that listened to this lecture in-real-life are now, and did they become successful.

[@thecsciworker291]

40:56 "If people feel like their information isn't private then that screws us in the long term" Wow.... Such a visionary lolol

[@aspiretoinspire3713]

Felt awkward hearing him say that haha

[@rohithm681]

Man why did he stop at 12:52?! Pity none of the audience was really interested in actual physical architecture of Facebook and what went into building it. It's even more sad cause I'm pretty sure at that time the tech he was taking about MySQL instances, Memcached, apache, etc wasn't as well documented or available as it is now.

[@I_dont_want_an_at]

Privileged information. Privy.

[@Baober]

CS50 is an introduction level course, I'm pretty sure the students were worried about loops, arrays, dictionaries, and barely dove into SQL by that point of the semester.

[@schizophrenicenthusiast]

0:14 "Mark Zuckerburg, *which* is one of our guest speakers..." He knew all along.

[@aniketagarwal3992]

For the people who didn't get the joke, the professor should've used *who* but he didn't coz he knew since then that mark isn't human

[@schizophrenicenthusiast]

@@aniketagarwal3992 king

[@ranasaani]

Thank you so much for such a great lecture.

[@earthling6869]

Mark?

[@eterty8335]

@@earthling6869 No, GFXsxusjBQJJSVZKABZHDDJRJISBZ...

[@johnrafferty7972]

Watching this for the first time in 2021 is nuts, fair play to this young man he changed the world

[@eclipsesolar8345]

To worse.

[@mango-strawberry]

So true.

[@TheBrandonn]

Yea thanks to the zucc, reality as we know it will cease to exist one day and we'll all just be avatars in the cloud

[@paradox3103]

I cant believe this immense resource was expended on a nearly empty CS50 class lmao

[@hermanwaterford2892]

With a crap title like "lecture". Great technology history and decisions here

[@plutobaby9996]

Well it was pretty early on it appears and by the way the professor introduced him it didn’t seem like too many people had an idea of what he’d become later on. It would’ve been so dope to be there though, I probably would’ve asked a millions questions tbh

[@harrisonsherwood4028]

at least they recorded it and posted it for millions to watch

[@KACZMARCZYK4369]

IMAO IMAO

[@zedd4733]

Bruh..these kind of lectures suck big time.

[@rojhon23]

I can't believe I'm only watching this in 2021. This inspires me in my ongoing project.

[@almightydummy]

just don't become a lizard at the end.

[@thefifthwall5259]

it actually seems like he has a soul here