Mark Zuckerberg may have spent the better part of two decades pushing back against how he was portrayed in David Fincher’s Oscar-winning film The Social Network, but there’s one aspect of the 2010 biographical drama that he admits hit the mark: his wardrobe.
“The whole framing of the movie is I’m with this girl who doesn’t exist in real life, who dumps me, which has happened in real life a lot,” Zuckerberg said at Stanford. “And basically the framing is that the whole reason for making Facebook is because I wanted to get girls, or wanted to get into some kind of social institution.”
“They got all these very specific details of what I was wearing, or these specific things correct, but then the whole narrative arc around my motivations and all this stuff were like, completely wrong,” he said.
Still, while Zuckerberg admits the movie has “a bunch of random details they got right,” he says the main problem with The Social Network is how it tells the audience his main motivation to build Facebook was all about being accepted, rather than a genuine interest in technology.
“It’s such a big disconnect from the way that people who make movies think about what we do in Silicon Valley—building stuff, right? Like, they just can’t wrap their head around the idea that someone might build something because they like building things.”
