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I have heard this sentiment echoed by others - several industry insiders included - before.

If this is indeed true that the sales and marketing honchos are exclusively running large tracts of key operations, aren't the resulting missteps going to be deleterious to Mark's record as the chief?

This sentiment was echoed by Dalton Caldwell about Facebook's "M&A" team, last year:

  I am not sure if this bubbled up to you, Mark, but after this all happened I
  directly communicated my feedback regarding just how unhappy I was with this
  situation to one of your executives. The executive apologized and said he would
  take my feedback under consideration.

  Mark, I know for a fact that my experience was not an isolated incident. Several
  other startup founders & Facebook employees have told me that what I experienced
  was part of a systematic M&A “formula”. Your team doesn’t seem to understand 
  that being “good negotiators” vs implying that you will destroy someone’s 
  business built   on your “open platform” are not the same thing. I know all 
  about intimidation-based negotiation tactics: I experienced them for years 
  while dealing with the music industry. Bad-faith negotiations are inexcusable,
  and I didn’t want to believe your   company would stoop this low. My mistake. 

Does Mark maintain control of all of the operations or has he got petty feudal lords running various units and operations?

Source:

http://daltoncaldwell.com/dear-mark-zuckerberg

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