This is a fair point, but why do we as hackers and entrepreneurs place so much importance on what&#x27;s in a company&#x27;s &quot;DNA&quot; then? Because right here, you have a pretty damn stark view of the founder&#x27;s mindset at the genesis of his startup before and as it was taking off. It isn&#x27;t like he was chastened by external forces along the way or since - ostensibly everything that&#x27;s happened since has only been positive reinforcement (A billion+ users, 45 billion dollars).<p>I&#x27;m not saying he still feels this way or didn&#x27;t or couldn&#x27;t change his thinking and attitude. Common decency would behoove him to and it&#x27;s reasonable to grant that. I&#x27;m happy for him and his new family, but away from all that and his foundation (which sounds very positive), It&#x27;s hard not to view a lot of what Facebook does with its users through the kind of cavalier attitude embodied in that old chat log. In fact, it helps makes a lot more sense of some of their moves if you do.