Comments on: Mark Zuckerberg, Sarah Lacey Interview Disaster

By: Danny Kessler

Danny Kessler — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:49:51 +0000

The twitter back channel created a very interesting dynamic from the audience. The crowd lashing out to Lacy because they had the confidence that everyone was thinking the same thing. This is going to be interesting when the elections start heating up and how we influence what we all are thinking as we are sharing our thoughts in real time.

By: Baudelaire

Baudelaire — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:35:29 +0000

I was there: She was unprepared, she flirted, she giggled, she wanted to talk about his big $$$$ and she was just plain stupid. When he talked about how they had just launched Facebook in Spanish, she pumped her fist and shouted, “GO SPAIN!” The audience groaned. She missed the point time after time, she interrupted and she committed the cardinal sin of interviewing: She made it about HER. But obviously this young woman is madly in love with herself.

By: Glen Barnes

Glen Barnes — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:14:41 +0000

Sarah was horrible and enough has been written about her performance already but did Mark actually have anything interesting to say? All I heard was a repeat of the same phrase “Facebook is a platform to help people connect and communicate effectively.” Enough already!

By: Lori

Lori — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:48:17 +0000

Honestly, this looks like two kids going for course credit on their college public access channel.

Yippee, it’s SXSW! Let’s have some young, ill-prepared journalist interview some young, boring guy who doesn’t know how to hold the audience’s attention! If he were a better interview, she wouldn’t look so bad. If she were a better reporter, she would have been able to make him look good. Barring that, *splat*.

By: Montoya

Montoya — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:15:28 +0000

I don’t know why people are surprised about this. Sarah is like every other vapid talking head in the valley… promoting her book and her name more than actually trying to deliver a good performance. I was incredibly bored with the interview as a whole and everytime Zuckerberg sparked my interest with something exciting, she cut him off and brought the discussion back to superficial crap again.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:38:37 +0000

Yup, that was pretty bad. It is pretty easy to see how she got where she is…mostly DUMB LUCK…and I do mean DUMB. Neither one of them came across as being to bright. I am a little BORED with Facebook and maybe this will help the whole thing just quietly go away.

By: SpaceyG

SpaceyG — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:14:27 +0000

I thought getting caught being really stupid on TMZ was some kinda, like, goal or something of Interweb stuff like Facebook in the first place.

By: Jonathan Kleiman

Jonathan Kleiman — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:22:04 +0000

I just caught a clip of a piece of the interview. Looks like she has no idea how to run an interview. She’s not just unprepared… but her random questions are yes/no at best.

By: Jonathan Kleiman

Jonathan Kleiman — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:14:22 +0000

Thanks for reporting on this Nick.

Facebook has to keep Zuckerberg at a distance. With a shy, young, snippy CEO, and a company poised to go public, Zuckerberg can’t be running around getting filmed on TMZ acting foolish.

I know a ton of people who have the charisma and wit to keep a bad interview interesting as interviewers. I don’t know anybody who would take on the task of interviewing Zuckerberg without being able to keep it very, very interesting.
Maybe next time they should get you to do it, Nick!

By: ERIC

ERIC — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:26:39 +0000

I was there - it was a trainwreck. And I did not feel bad for Sarah for a second. Anyone who did must have thought she was hot or cute - the fact is that she was unprepared and totally full of herself. Very unprofessional. This is very bad for her career.