It took Alexandr Wang a full year to land his first meeting with Mark Zuckerberg
davidsenra · x · 2026-10-20
Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang reveals it took him a full year to get his first meeting with Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg's calendar is "insane," Wang says, and he is extremely good at prioritization — spending a lot of time on the things that really matter, "in some ways, too much time." That ruthless prioritization is how he stays a good dad and partner while running Meta.
The anecdote shows both the bar for reaching Meta's top and Zuckerberg's intense focus — relevant now that Wang leads Meta's superintelligence efforts.
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