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Steve Jobs coached Facebook founder

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LONDON, UK: The success of Facebook has a touch of Apple's co-founder Steve Jobs. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has revealed that Steve Jobs advised him how to improve the social networking site and ensure the company had the right people in place.

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According to media reports, Zuckerberg said how Jobs coached him on building a management team that is "focused on building as high quality and good things as you are."

"I had a lot of questions for him. How to build a team around you, right, that's focused on building as high quality and good things as you are. How to keep an organization focused, right, when I think the tendency for larger companies is to try to fray and go into all these different areas," CBS News quoted Zuckerberg, as saying.

He was all praise for Apple. "Apple is a company that is so focused on just building products for their customers and their users. And - and that's like -it's such a deep part of their mission to build these beautiful products for their users," Zuckerberg said.

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"And I think we connected a lot on this level. Facebook has this mission that's really more than just trying to build a company, right, that has a market cap or a value. It's like we're trying to do this thing in the world," he added.

Zuckerberg also said that they talked about "the aesthetics and kind of mission orientation of companies."

However, it is unclear when Zuckerberg and Jobs met, but in a recently published biography, author Walter Isaacson quoted Jobs as saying that he admired Zuckerberg for not "selling out."





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