Actually I think he's both, though maybe not diabolical. And I agree the guy is absolutely naive.
So I started this thread with a lot of background knowledge of Zuckerberg, but I wanted the thread to run it's course for a bit. I've heard tons of things about him and his own interviews and in the end the guy has a 100% focus on whatever he can do to grow Meta and doesn't care the results. One story that has always stood out to me was from Filipino reporter Maria Ressa, she met Zuck at a lunch and was discussing harassment on Facebook in the Philippines
Interviews with Frances Haugen (the Facebook whistle blower), she's talked about how Facebook knew discourse on the platform is divisive and a small change of their settings would make discourse nicer, but would potentially cost them a small fraction of revenue - NOPE.
The guy simply is all about money. Right now Facebook's share price is $594. Mark is thinking how to get it to $594.01. And he doesn't give a damn if anyone is hurt for that $0.01. Hell, Scott Galloway joked on his pod today "Zuck would fuck his own mother if it would drive up their stock price."
Beyond that, the guy is a fucking dweeb, but wants to be cool. Remember the year he had to make his own food? Either growing or killing it, because it was cool. At a large company event he wore a shirt that said “Aut Zuck aut nihil” Latin for “all Zuck or all nothing" because cool. Look at the picture in my first post. That perm, that shirt, that gold chain, the $900,000 watch. All trying to be cool.
And failing.
He made this, did anyone think it was cool or laugh at him?
He tries so damn hard to be cool, to be an Alpha, but he is nothing but a beta.