Mark Zuckerberg revealed that his employees at Meta refer to him as the “Eye of Sauron”. Moreover, he claims they do so in a loving way, such as when you would call a close friend “Cthulhu, destroyer of worlds.”
Appearing on The Tim Ferriss Show, Zuckerberg said his hands-on approach earned him the friendly nickname, referring to the all-seeing flaming eye adopted by the Dark Lord in the Third Age of Middle-earth in JRR Tolkein’s fantasy books: “Some of the people I work with say this with love. But I think they sometimes see my excessive attention as the Eye of Sauron.”
Part of his nickname may be due to his hands-on approach, his relentless energy to work on something, and his tendency to call meetings out of the blue instead of pre-arranging them.
told the Podcast, “I just think about the interaction of having an instant feedback loop to think about something… and then talking to the people working on it is much better than going and scheduling a meeting in three weeks.”
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