Love the way Zuck responds to Charlie Rose’s questions.
Zuckerberg: Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga (which are going public soon and will be valued most likely at multibillion dollar valuations, and basically all of their games are built on top of Facebook for the most part) And a huge number of other companies as well.
So I mean, does Facebook build any games? No. We build no games.
Rose: You say that today –
Zuckerberg: No, we —
Rose: You say that today –
Zuckerberg: No, I’m pretty sure we’re not going to build any games.
Rose: I’m only saying this because people thought that Steve Jobs would never go into retail, and he did.
Zuckerberg: I’ll tell you why. Because building games is really hard. And what we’re doing is really hard. And we think that we’re better off focusing on this piece. I think that building a great game service is really hard. Building a great music service is really hard. Building a great movie service is really hard. And we just believe that an independent entrepreneur will always beat a division of a big company which is why we think that the strategy of these other companies trying to do everything themselves will inevitably be less successful than an ecosystem where you have someone like Facebook trying to build the core product to help people connect and then independent great companies that are only focused on one or two things doing those things really well.
