Facebook
founder Mark Zuckerberg will hold a Townhall Question and Answer session at
IIT-Delhi later this month to connect with Indians, whom he described as “one of our most active and engaged communities” on the social media.
“More than 130 million
people use Facebook in India. I’m looking forward to
hearing directly from one of our most active and engaged communities” Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook post, wherein he announced to be
hosting his next Townhall Q&A in Delhi on October 28.
“If you have a question,
please ask below in the comments. To vote for a question, just like it. I’ll be answering questions from across Facebook as well as from a
live audience at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi,” Zuckerberg said. Last month in Palo Alto, Zuckerberg hosted Prime
Minister Narendra Modi for a Townhall Question and Answer session. ”India is personally very important to the history of our company
here. This is a story that I have not told publicly and very few people know,” he said at the Facebook headquarters on September 27.
“Early on in our history,
before things were really going well and we had hit a tough patch, and a lot of
people wanted to buy Facebook and thought we should sell the company, I went
and saw one of my mentors, Steve Jobs, and he told me that in order to
reconnect with what I believed is the mission of the company, I should visit
this temple that he had gone to in India early in his evolution of thinking
about what he wanted Apple and his vision of the future to be,” he said.
“So I went and I traveled
for almost a month and seeing the people, seeing how people connected, and
having the opportunity to feel how much better the world could be if everyone
had a stronger ability to connect, reinforced for me the importance of what we
were doing. And that is something I have always remembered over the last ten
years as we built Facebook,” Zuckerberg said.
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