

He also encouraged exhausted employees to use their vacation days. The social media giant is thinking of extending existing three-day holiday weekends, Zuckerberg said, responding to a question on burnout. Meta is already talking about ways to retain staff amid the stock rout. Zuckerberg’s own wealth dropped by US$31bil (RM129.56bil). Others fretted about what a continued decline might mean for their net worth, according to people familiar with the matter. Some were discussing buying shares during the dip, believing in Zuckerberg’s long-term vision for the metaverse, an immersive version of the internet. Facebook lost a record $251 bil (RM1.05bil) of value in a single day. Meta’s Instagram app has a copycat of TikTok called Reels, which the company is now prioritising.Įmployees were glued to the stock price. Zuckerberg echoed his remarks of a day earlier to investors, telling employees that the social networking giant faced an “unprecedented level of competition,” with the rise of TikTok, the rival viral-video platform.

It is important to focus on growing Facebook’s short-video product, he said. His red, teary eyes were the result of a scratched cornea, the Facebook founder said Thursday, rallying employees as Meta Platforms Inc.’s stock price lost more than a quarter of its value.Īt a company-wide virtual meeting, Zuckerberg explained that the historic stock drop was a result of Meta’s weak forecast for revenue in the current quarter, according to a person who attended and was not authorised to speak about it. Mark Zuckerberg quipped that if he started to cry, it wasn’t because of the day’s news.
