Tech executives are usually known for their work ethic, bank accounts, ability to imagine a different world in the future, and some very weird hobbies. They are not known for their ability to communicate in a way that is calm, confidence-inducing or even, at the very least, kind. We saw that on display in 2021.
Tech executives said terrible things to their employees, tried to troll Congress, and told the story of their white, sunscreen-protected face in a way that makes them seem a little bit cool this year. Let's take a look at six of the craziest things tech executives said in 2021.
"You are a bunch of Dumb Dolls"
The CEO of Better.com wrote an email to his employees that was so out of the ordinary that I have never seen it before.
Garg told employees to wake up better in an email obtained by Forbes. You are too slow. You are a bunch of dolphins and they get caught in nets and eaten by sharks. Stop it. Stop it. Don't let it happen right now. You are confusing me.
Garg was involved in a larger controversy this year after he laid off around 900 employees in an impersonal and devastating call that leaked online. According to Insider, three of Better.com's top executives have resigned.
Yes or no? Yes or no? Yes or no?
Congress brought the CEOs of the tech companies to a hearing in March, but they wanted them to say "no" or "yes" The CEOs were asked if their platforms contributed to the storm on the Capitol.
"Just a 'yes' or 'no' answer," he said. The Democrat was angry that Mark Zuckerberg did not answer with a simple "yes" or "no". Jack Dorsey replied with a "yes, but..." and then he sent a message. A question mark and a poll with two choices, "yes" or "no."
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More than 100,000 people voted, with 64.4% saying "yes" and 35.6% saying "no".
Mark is wearing sunscreen.
This is one of the CEO trends that doesn't stop after a while. The CEO of Meta wants everyone to know the details of the photo that took the internet by storm. In it, he is hydrofoiling, which is basically surfing but less cool, and his face is covered with a layer of sunscreen.
In a live video between Facebook and Adam Mosseri, the two men said that they were "efoiling around" with pro surfer Kai Lenny, when they noticed a man following them. He put on a ton of sunscreen because he didn't want to be recognized.
"That backfired," he said.
Of course it did. Sunscreen is a bad disguise. He defended his sunscreen in the past.
During a leaked Q&A from 2020, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that he spent all day playing in the sun before seeing a photo that did not make him look good. He didn't mention seeing the photographers.
"I don't think I look particularly cool at any point with what I'm doing," he said during the leaked Q&A. When you visit the coast of Hawaii, it just feels like it is awesome, and then you come back online and see that the photo is what you look like, it's like. Alright. I thought I was wearing sunscreen.
He said that he was not going to apologize for wearing too much sunscreen.
He said that he was behind the sunscreen.
Mark was bold.
The head of the social media platform doesn't want to hear about Siwa being under the age of 18.
In June, Adam Mosseri, the head of the social media site, was chatting with a young person on his platform when she spilled a secret about her experience.
I know you are not supposed to have an account until you are 13 years old. Siwa said that he had an account.
Mosseri didn't want to hear that.
"You didn't hear that," Siwa said. Nobody else heard that.
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This was made even more interesting by a series of disturbing leaks about young people on social media. According to documents leaked to the Wall Street Journal, Facebook research found that "Instagram is harmful to a sizable percentage of teenage girls." It showed that social comparison and body image issues impact teens more than adults, with some of the most intense experiences being loneliness, stress, and depression. Almost half of all teen girls on the platform feel they compare their appearance to others on the platform, and a third feel intense pressure to look perfect.
Jeff Bezos thanks us for sending him to space.
billionaires traveled to space for fun. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson both took separate flights to the edge of space. Bezos would like to thank the people who paid for his trip, the Amazon employees he has mistreated.
He said that he wanted to thank every Amazon employee and customer. "Thank you from the bottom of my heart."
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The trip to space that Amazon employees paid for was not given to them. Some employees were forced to pee in bottles because of unsafe conditions they were working in. Many people tested positive for COVID-19.
Most of the time, Musk has said something.
There is no shortage of weird comments from tech executives, but there is only one list that includes everything Musk has said. There isn't enough characters to fully describe this, so here is a taste of his best and worst tweets.
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