I am genuinely not sure why this is a controversial statement. Allow me to rephrase this in a very quantifiable way.

FB IPO opened at $38 ( https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/11/17/if-you-invested-50... ). Today it trades at $346 ( https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/FB?p=FB ). That is 9 times the initial investment value.

Now, we can argue how much of that increase should be given to Zuckerberg in the form of credit for directing the company, but I am relatively certain that the answer is not zero.

I stand by my initial post. It is very much arguable.

edit: Hatred of Zuckerberg really should not be blind. I mean there is enough there to dislike him for. There is no need to invent stuff.

> It is one thing for the media to say false things about my work, but it's crossing the line to say I'm riding an electric surfboard when that video clearly shows a hydrofoil that I'm pumping with my own legs.

Just read that incredibly smug quote from him in response to the many recent articles critiquing Facebook.. It is not blind hatred, I would say it is very well targeted hatred of someone who has an enormous impact on the world while only caring about Facebook. His denial and stubbornness is approaching that of a very recent ex president.

https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10113917270654841&set=...

"That was on Thursday. What did he do on Friday?"