<story><title>Mark Zuckerberg on What Hollywood Doesn&apos;t Get About Silicon Valley</title><url>http://www.foundersatwork.com/1/post/2010/10/mark-zuckerberg-on-what-hollywood-doesnt-get-about-silicon-valley.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>michael_nielsen</author><text>Zuckerberg is flat-out wrong in his assertion that Hollywood doesn&apos;t understand people building something just because they like building things.  I&apos;m quite sure he&apos;s right when it comes to some people in Hollywood, possibly even many of the most powerful people.  But I&apos;ll bet that what gets a great writer like Aaron Sorkin up in the morning is the same kind of creative impulse that drives hackers.  Sorkin is a hacker - just in a different medium.&lt;p&gt;None of which is to say that Sorkin&apos;s portrayal of Zuckerberg is at all accurate.  In the West Wing, Sorkin once wrote: &quot;You think I think that an artist&apos;s job is to speak the truth [but] an artist&apos;s job... is to captivate you for however long we&apos;ve asked for your attention.&quot;  I think he&apos;s quite right, but it&apos;s a heck of a philosophy if you&apos;re making a movie about someone still living.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mark Zuckerberg on What Hollywood Doesn&apos;t Get About Silicon Valley</title><url>http://www.foundersatwork.com/1/post/2010/10/mark-zuckerberg-on-what-hollywood-doesnt-get-about-silicon-valley.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewljohnson</author><text>What most hackers don&apos;t understand is that they do in fact have deep-seated psychological motives for all the things they want to build.&lt;p&gt;I don&apos;t know if Sorkin&apos;s yarn was even close to reality, or whether Zuck&apos;s angst at the time was merely coincidental with the development of FaceSmash. But the motivation for building Facebook or anything else is always more complex than &quot;I thought it would be cool.&quot;&lt;p&gt;Hollywood may have missed the point, but they were right to look for one.</text></comment>