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Zuckerbergian en · ADJ

Etymology

From Zuckerberg + -ian.

Meanings

1. (rare) Of or relating to Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984), founder of the social network Facebook.
   • If you aren't willing to work to create something new and different, if you aren't trying to do something Zuckerbergian, your goal isn't the problem. Your approach is the problem. If you aren't willing to find a new way to fill an ongoing and nearly universal need, if you aren't willing to do something Netflixian, your goal isn't the problem. Your approach is the problem. 2018, Jeff Haden, The Motivation Myth: How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win, New York, NY: Penguin Random House, →ISBN, page 89:
   • The only debate is whether it will end with Google gobbling up the globe while mouthing its brand mantra 'Don't Be Evil' or Facebook removing its Zuckerbergian mask to reveal an alien life form within. The invasion of the brand snatchers is upon us. 2016, Stephen Brown, Brands and Branding, page 143:
   • But of course, Silicon Valley is a mecca of counter-signaling—witness the superstatus Zuckerbergian hoodie—and it's no surprise to discover that in the land of the billionaire dropout, an Internet entrepreneur like Thiel sees evidence that higher education inhibits innovation. 2012, New York Magazine's Most Popular:
   • One: So. Another: Right? In their Zuckerbergian ultimate form, combined as a programmatic if-then connective move: Right? So. 2021 September 1, John Herrman, “The Rise and Fall of ‘ZuckTalk’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

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