Mark Zuckerberg

One-line: Facebook/Meta founder; source of the “young people are just smarter” line Kyle interrogates in The Rising Generation.

What we know

In 2007, when Facebook was ~3 years old, told a group of Y Combinator founders: “Young people are just smarter. Why are most chess masters under 30?… Young people just have simpler lives.” Kyle uses this as a foil — the dominant players in tech are no longer 20-year-olds. (source: The Rising Generation - Research)
On Meta (Company)‘s Q3 2025 earnings call, said the company would rather monetize overbuilt AI compute externally than hoard it — quoted in It’s Not a Lie if You Believe It.

The Rising Generation - Research — the Silicon Valley vibe-shift thread.
It’s Not a Lie if You Believe It — quoted on Meta’s plan to monetize excess AI compute.