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"You're never as good as they say when you're up, and you're never as bad as they say when you're down. You just have to stay focused and keep shipping over the long term."

—— Mark Zuckerberg, 2024.09.26, After 2024 Meta Connect

# *2012-2018 Planting the Seeds*

Excluding Netflix, from 2012 when Facebook went public to 2014 when it acquired Oculus for $2 billion, Facebook was the FAANG giant with the largest and fastest market value growth in these three years, with an increase of over 110%. However, Zuckerberg remained the most anxious CEO among the tech giants. The reliance on advertising revenue structure, the diminishing effectiveness of free games, and the dependence on the iOS and Android ecosystems all contributed to Zuckerberg's unprecedented obsession with "entry points". With mobile advertising starting to grow rapidly in 2013, using cash on hand to buy computing entry points became a necessity. In retrospect, the $2 billion might have been a placebo for Zuckerberg's anxiety, but at the time, it was the most valuable painkiller for Facebook as a whole.

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# *2018-2022 Life's Low Point*

The bet on the metaverse began in the two years before the pandemic. At that time, Zuckerberg's anxiety reached its peak. Data security issues, influence on elections, and endless public problems portrayed Zuckerberg as a clown with no bottom line for profit. The pseudo-progressivism aimed at exploiting the middle class made the term "Silicon Valley elite" exceptionally cheap. Children who once admired Zuckerberg because of the movie "The Social Network" all started giving him the middle finger.

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It also comes with a neural intelligence wristband that supports myoelectric signal input. This accessory was actually revealed to the media by Zuckerberg in February this year. The story goes back to the end of 2019 when Facebook acquired a New York startup called CTRL Labs, which had been researching finger-tracking wristbands since 2015...

Acquiring Quest, stockpiling GPUs, investing in the AI field, acquiring CTRL Labs - a true self-healer of anxiety disorder. Mysteriously, heaven helps those who help themselves.