I think that there is a role that Facebook can play in empowering community leaders, to strengthen existing communities, to help build new communities, to help look out for people in their community, to help keep people safe.

For the last 10 years, we've really been focusing on connecting friends and family, and now the next focus on top of that is going to be helping to build communities.

At Meta, we've been building social experiences for 20 years now. Originally, it took the form of a website, then mobile apps. But the thing is, I never thought about us as a social media company. We're not a social app company, we are a social connection company.

Hopefully in the future, asking if a company is building a metaverse will sound as ridiculous as asking a company how their internet is going.

In 2006, Yahoo wanted to buy the company for a billion dollars and everyone on our management team wanted to sell it and the board tried to fire me and basically in the next year, everyone else on the management team left because I hadn't done a good job communicating. I don't want to blame them. I hadn't done a good job communicating the long-term vision because I didn't, I wasn't thinking about that at the time.

The metaverse is a vision that spans many companies - the whole industry. You can think about it as the successor to the mobile internet.