Wouldn't Choose Silicon Valley To Set Up Facebook Again: Ceo

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LONDON: [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Facebook"]Facebook[/url] founder [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Mark-Zuckerberg"]Mark Zuckerberg[/url] has criticized the [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Silicon-Valley"]Silicon Valley[/url] for having no long-term focus, saying if he were to start the social networking site again today, he wouldn't be doing it in the valley.

"If I were starting now, I would do things very differently," the Herald Sun quoted Zuckerberg, as saying.

"I didn't know anything. In Silicon Valley, you get this feeling that you have to be out here. But it's not the only place to be. If I were starting now, I would have stayed in Boston. (Silicon Valley) is a little short-term focused and that bothers me," he added.

Boston is where Zuckerberg started working on Facebook as an undergrad at [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Havard-University"]Havard University[/url].

It's a surprising turnaround for 27-year-old Zuckerberg, who once said he could not have built Facebook if he had not gone to the valley.

Zuckerberg talked about his first few years in Silicon Valley, which [url="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/The-Social-Network"]The Social Network[/url] portrayed as hedonistic.

"It was not like in the movie, there was no drinking. We all just lived in a house, iterated, kept going," he said.

"It wasn't until we got our first office in Palo Alto that things became more like a company. We never went into this wanting to build a company," he added.

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