Mark Zuckerberg Boasted About Being Bigger Than Taylor Swift
Mark Zuckerberg proclaimed himself “the most well-known person of my generation” in an email with another tech billionaire who was urging him to start a makeover.
The millennial Facebook founder made the boast to Peter Thiel in 2020 when Thiel, the PayPal co-founder and Silicon Valley’s longest-standing conservative voice, told him he needed to change his image. The e-mail correspondence came to light when Facebook’s parent company, Meta, was sued by the attorney general of Tennessee, the Washington Post reported.
Thiel wrote to Zuckerberg, then 36, to say, “As the head of the most successful Millennial tech company, it makes more sense for Zuckerberg to present himself as ‘Millennial spokesperson’ rather than Mark as a Baby Boomer construct of how a well-behaved Millennial is supposed to act.”