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Facebook Interviewer Heckled at Web Conference

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the go-home-and-cry-in-your-billions dept.

jriding writes "Zuckerberg, the 23-year-old billionaire, was the keynote speaker at the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. Business Week journalist Sarah Lacy took the stage to question Zuckerberg, but the audience quickly grew tired of the topics she focused on, claiming that the real issues were being ignored. "Never, ever have I seen such a train wreck of an interview," claimed audience member, Jason Pontin." The audience apparently wanted to know more about privacy and portability issues, which I guess shouldn't surprise anyone here.

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  1. TWiT and why the Interviewer sucked by strredwolf · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is on This Week In Tech #135 in which Robert Scoble reported from South by Southwest (SxSW) about the uproar: Sarah Lacy was playing softball and flirting with Mark Zuckerberg, and the audience as well as Mark was expecting hard though questions. At the right point the audience interrupted, which made Sarah go defensive -- a bad move that made her loose control of the interview.

    Jason Calacanis (in the TWiT podcast) then explained that Sarah's been flirting with Mark for a very long time, and these softball questions are very unprofessional of her.

    IMO She really needed a wake-up call -- SxSW live isn't print!

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  2. Re:Video of Sarah Lacy's version of what happened by MrMunkey · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's a video of the actual interview. I don't think it's the whole thing though.

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=LxZ6-O5R1zs

  3. Re:Too bad... by Furry+Ice · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's a video of the interview: http://www.austin360.com/news/mplayer/sxsw/73367