{"id":14299,"date":"2024-05-01T07:37:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T05:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/01\/its-mark-zuckerberg-as-weve-never-seen-him-but-whats-really-behind-the-new-look-arwa-mahdawi\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T07:37:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T05:37:33","slug":"its-mark-zuckerberg-as-weve-never-seen-him-but-whats-really-behind-the-new-look-arwa-mahdawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/01\/its-mark-zuckerberg-as-weve-never-seen-him-but-whats-really-behind-the-new-look-arwa-mahdawi\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg as we\u2019ve never seen him! But what\u2019s really behind the new look? | Arwa Mahdawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With his interchangeable T-shirts and short neat hair, Facebook\u2019s founder famously \u2018never tried to be cool\u2019. Is his makeover just a distraction from what\u2019s going on at Meta?<\/p>\n<p>A vibe shift is afoot in Silicon Valley. For aeons, the movers and shakers of the tech industry signalled that they were serious people working on serious things via their simple outfits. Crypto mogul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2024\/mar\/28\/sam-bankman-fried-sentenced-prison-ftx-fraud\">Sam Bankman-Fried (now in jail)<\/a> always looked as if he had rolled out of bed and forgotten to change out of his pyjamas. The late Steve Jobs famously adopted a uniform of black polo necks. Mark Zuckerberg, meanwhile, once boasted that he owned and wore multiple versions of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zuck\/posts\/pfbid02e1DYRpoZxkS5TCb9VQP3D2f2MadAkKuJF6CDNH8Sd7hhLztiQFthwGFTexXXKkhnl?ref=embed_post\">same T-shirt<\/a> because it was efficient.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not a cool person and I\u2019ve never really tried to be cool,\u201d Zuckerberg said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2014\/11\/07\/5-things-we-learned-in-mark-zuckerbergs-facebook-qa.html\">a 2014 Q&amp;A<\/a>. \u201cI really want to clear my life so that I have to make as few decisions as possible \u2026 I feel like I\u2019m not doing my job if I spend any of my energy on things that are silly or frivolous.\u201d That attitude seemed to extend to his hair, which has always been kept Lego-style short.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/apr\/30\/mark-zuckerberg-whats-behind-new-look-makeover\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/baa610f49be566961f462bb1707213e05addb694\/0_268_4000_2400\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=db42037be6a2b03de04e7c7372139b68\" title=\"It\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg as we\u2019ve never seen him! But what\u2019s really behind the new look? | Arwa Mahdawi\" \/>With his interchangeable T-shirts and short neat hair, Facebook\u2019s founder famously \u2018never tried to be cool\u2019. Is his makeover just a distraction from what\u2019s going on at Meta?<br \/>\nA vibe shift is afoot in Silicon Valley. For aeons, the movers and shakers of the tech industry signalled that they were serious people working on serious things via their simple outfits. Crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried (now in jail) always looked as if he had rolled out of bed and forgotten to change out of his pyjamas. The late Steve Jobs famously adopted a uniform of black polo necks. Mark Zuckerberg, meanwhile, once boasted that he owned and wore multiple versions of the same T-shirt because it was efficient.<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m not a cool person and I\u2019ve never really tried to be cool,\u201d Zuckerberg said in a 2014 Q&amp;A. \u201cI really want to clear my life so that I have to make as few decisions as possible \u2026 I feel like I\u2019m not doing my job if I spend any of my energy on things that are silly or frivolous.\u201d That attitude seemed to extend to his hair, which has always been kept Lego-style short. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With his interchangeable T-shirts and short neat hair, Facebook\u2019s founder famously \u2018never tried to be cool\u2019. Is his makeover just a distraction from what\u2019s going on at Meta? A vibe shift is afoot in Silicon Valley. 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