The evolution of Mark Zuckerberg as a leader

Mark Zuckerberg aced his interview at TechCrunch Disrupt.

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With Facebook's stock price crashing and employee morale sinking, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stepped up and delivered a home run he would never have been able to hit even just a year ago.

As you may know, Zuckerberg has been under fire the last few months for Facebook's plummeting stock price. A darling of Wall Street before its IPO, Facebook fell to half its IPO price in just a few months. As a result, a growing chorus of critics have called for new leadership at Facebook. Some have even called for Zuckerberg himself to resign.

While I've always thought that the calls for Zuckerberg's resignation were extraordinarily premature, I have been critical of Zuckerberg for not focusing on creating revenue-generating product and for not publicly commenting on Facebook's stock price or soothing the market's fears about the company's future.

Zuckerberg finally answered his critics this week, though, at the TechCr... [Read more]