> until it raised money at an outrageous valuation and had an outrageous IPO
Lots of companies go public without developing a psychopathic culture. As Tim Cook has said, supposed conflicts between privacy-versus-profits or privacy-versus-innovation are false choices [1].
These are strategic choices Zuckerberg made and which his employees fell into step to execute. They are strategic choices investors profit from and voters tolerate. Each of these constituencies could, relatively unilaterally, knee-cap Facebook.
McNamee is making good points. This is a classic case of ad hominum.
I don't believe any CEO taking stance on topic like this.
Tom Cook is picturing Apple as a privacy guard, while they deploy icloud servers in China. Take with a grain of salt everything that's said by people who want to sell you things.
That's literally a requirement of the Chinese government for anyone offering web services in China. What exactly would you suggest they do as an alternative?
The USA does too, as evidenced by the NSA’s spying and Trump being Trump. ICE issues iPhones as government furnished equipment. They’re almost certainly being used to help coordinate the caging of children.
So Apple just shouldn’t do business anywhere then?
Lots of companies go public without developing a psychopathic culture. As Tim Cook has said, supposed conflicts between privacy-versus-profits or privacy-versus-innovation are false choices [1].
These are strategic choices Zuckerberg made and which his employees fell into step to execute. They are strategic choices investors profit from and voters tolerate. Each of these constituencies could, relatively unilaterally, knee-cap Facebook.
McNamee is making good points. This is a classic case of ad hominum.
[1] https://www.ft.com/content/7fafec06-1ea2-11e9-b126-46fc3ad87...