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ater this year, Facebook is expected to IPO at a valuation close to $100 billion.

More than anyone else, the person responsible for that success is Facebook's 27-year-old cofounder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.

What's it like working for him?

We know a lot about what he was like as a boss during Facebook's early days.

Along
with some Harvard friends and a buddy at Stanford, Zuckerberg started
working on Facebook in a dorm way back in 2004. Back then, according to
personal messages we've viewed and written about in the past, Zuckerberg
the boss was cut-throat, comfortable leading others, and sometimes
awkward about sharing success.

That was a long time ago, of course, and you have to assume Zuckerberg's leadership style has matured over the years.

Has it?

For
a long time, the best answer to this question was Facebook employee
Andrew Bosworth's blog post, "Working with Zuck." Its four main points
where:

Zuck expects debate.
Zuck isn't sentimental.
Zuck experiences things contextually.
Zuck pushes people.

More
recently, former Facebook employee Yishan Wong has written a long
answer to the question on Quora: " Is Mark Zuckerberg an autocratic CEO
with whom no one wants to work? Is he a pain to work with?"

The gist is "no" – that Zuckerberg is not a "pain," even if he " does have a touch of the Asperger's."

"If
your confidence in your own abilities is self-generated and emotionally
secure, and you are seeking someone who will pose to you ever-greater
challenges to surmount, then Mark Zuckerberg is a pretty good fit for
you. However, he is not there to "develop" you - that's your own job."

Here's the whole answer:

There are plenty of people who are happy to work with [Zuckerberg], though there are also plenty who find it difficult.

He
is not some sort of ideally charismatic person whose primary quality is
that he's easy to get along with. Rather, he's a demanding CEO with a
monomaniacal focus on making Facebook succeed in its mission. This is
not to say that he's mean - he's a perfectly nice guy on a personal
level; it's just that professionally, he is focused on getting it done,
and has a limited tolerance for emotional fragility in the people he
needs to help him execute on that mission.

In my study of
business leaders, I've yet to come across one who was considered "great"
who didn't also have a significant body count of ex-employees claiming
that they were autocratic and mean. Examples include Jack Welch, Steve
Jobs, Bill Gates, and Larry Ellison. My theory is that the level of
personal demandingness needed to drive a global enterprise to a position
of world-changing leadership is one that can be too much for some
people. Such leaders don't tend to provide much in the way of emotional
coddling, and Mark Zuckerberg is like that. If your confidence in your
own abilities is self-generated and emotionally secure, and you are
seeking someone who will pose to you ever-greater challenges to
surmount, then Mark Zuckerberg is a pretty good fit for you. However,
he is not there to "develop" you - that's your own job.

He does
have a touch of the Asperger's; in my experience this is primarily
manifested in that he does not provide much active feedback or
confirmation that he is listening to you. I have had multiple
experiences where he will ask for my opinion on something and even when
we're the only two people in the room, I wasn't sure if he had really
comprehended or cared about what I was saying (he doesn't do the usual
"oh, all right!" or "hmm, I see!" that most people do; he just listens,
sometimes while looking away from you), until later when some strategy
change was announced that integrated some or all of my opinions. I
think this leads many people to think that he's thoughtlessly
autocratic, but it turns out he is actually listening all the time to
anything that anyone is saying to him , but you will simply not receive
confirmation or acknowledgement until later when he announces his
conclusion or decision, whereupon you can observe that he has integrated
all his streams of information and advice together.

I would
characterize him as "tough but fair." He's not a pain in the ass to
work with if you're the type of person who is looking to achieve greater
and greater things in life, but if you just want to get something good
done once and then take a break, then he's probably not the guy for you.

We'd
like to hear more about what it's like working with Zuckerberg, Sheryl
Sandberg, Bret Taylor, Chris Cox or any of the other Facebook stars.
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