Success Quote by Mark Zuckerberg

“Not originally created to be a company” is the kind of line that tries to launder ambition into innocence. Zuckerberg frames Facebook as an almost accidental corporation, a tool that simply grew too big to remain a campus project. It’s a strategic origin story: if the platform began as a “social mission,” then its later power looks less like conquest and more like destiny.

The phrasing is doing two jobs at once. “Make the world more open and connected” reads like a civic slogan, but it also functions as a moral shield for a business model built on harvesting attention and data. Openness is recast as an unquestionable good, while the messy reality - surveillance advertising, algorithmic amplification, privacy trade-offs - becomes a series of unfortunate side effects rather than design choices. “Connected” is similarly slippery: connection can mean community, but in platform terms it also means dependency, lock-in, and the conversion of relationships into measurable engagement.

Context matters: Zuckerberg offered versions of this claim as Facebook faced growing scrutiny and as Silicon Valley’s “move fast” mythos needed an ethical alibi. By insisting the company’s true purpose is social, he shifts debate away from regulation and accountability and toward intent. If the mission is noble, critics can be painted as anti-progress, anti-connection, even anti-human.

It works because it taps a real hunger for belonging while quietly redefining what belonging costs. The quote isn’t just about Facebook’s past; it’s an attempt to set the terms on which its present is judged.