There’s no better way to woo a crowd than by speaking to them in their own language. And Mark Zuckerberg did just that when he gave business advice in a 20 minute speech in Mandarin at Beijing’s Tsinghua University. In the speech, he insisted that it is important to stay true to your vision, care more than anyone else and fight to stay relevant and ahead of the game. As an example within the Facebook experience, Mark explained that when the company introduced the New Feed in 2006, 10% of its users threatened to quit.
Today, that would be like 150 million people telling us they were going to quit. We care about what people think. But we also know that connecting people is important. Most companies would be afraid of losing so many people, so they would take the easy path and give in … We knew News Feed was important for our mission, so we stayed strong.
Mark is actually on the board of Tsinghua’s School of Economics and Management and took part in a 100% Mandarin question-and-answer session in 2014. Go Zuckerberg.
[source: mashable]
