It's a story that begins with a series of rude awakenings.
Zucked is McNamee's intimate reckoning with the catastrophic failure of the head of one of the world's most powerful companies to face up to the damage he is doing. Still a large shareholder in Facebook, he had every good reason to stay on the bright side. He had mentored many tech leaders in his illustrious career as an investor, but few things had made him prouder, or been better for his fund's bottom line, than his early service to Mark Zuckerberg.
If you had told Roger McNamee three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself to stopping Facebook from destroying democracy, he would have howled with laughter. This is the dramatic story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it. Take a look at more stories and videos about Facebook.Print Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe The reality is Roger McNamee hasn't been involved with Facebook for a decade." Over the past two years, we've fundamentally changed how we operate to better protect the safety and security of people using Facebook. And all of them suggested that something was wrong with the algorithms and business model of Facebook that let bad guys hurt innocent people," says McNamee.įacebook has responded to McNamee's criticism, saying, "We take criticism seriously. "I saw a series of things across 2016, initially around the election, then a civil rights thing with Black Live Matter, then there was Brexit in the United Kingdom, and then a thing with housing and urban development that was again about discrimination. He was a huge fan and early investor of Facebook, but began seeing trouble just a few years ago. RELATED: Partnership announced to help solve housing crisis in Bay Area Long-time Silicon Valley investor Roger McNamee published a piece in TIME and has a book out "Zucked: Waking up to the Facebook catastrophe." SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) - An early Facebook investor shared his criticisms of the social media company in a new book. An early Facebook investor shared his criticisms of the social media company in a new book.
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