Three versions about the possible purposes of the visit of the founder Facebook to Russia

Yesterday, September 30, in Moscow, the founder of the Facebook network Mark Zuckerberg was closed. Even before the official visit, the California millionaire managed to dine at McDonald's and star against the backdrop of the St. Basil Blessed Cathedral.

Today, Tsuckerberg meets with the famous blogger and part-time Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev. A businessman and prime minister will discuss interaction in the field of IT technologies and a number of startups in Skolkovo. Rumor has it that Deputy Prime Ministers Arkady Dvorkovich and Vladislav Surkov will also be invited to the meeting.

The editors of Look At Me decided to collect all the versions of the visit of Mark Zuckerberg to Russia.

Conspirological version:

It was the participation of officials that alerted Western analysts : they believe that this is due to investment in Facebook shares Yuri Milner, who helped social networks at a difficult moment. It is possible that now in Moscow they are waiting for retaliatory courtesy. The director of the Skolkovo Foundation Victor Vekselberg hopes for Facebook entering the number of Innograd sponsors and investments from an American company.

Market extension version:

Another version of the visit is an audit on the grounds of the reasons for the Facebook lag from VKontakte. Surprisingly, Runet is one of the few industries where local talents lead in Russia. It is difficult for world Internet giants to take into account all the nuances of the local ecosystem. Foreigners cannot believe that on VKontakte today you can find almost any audio and video content, if desired, it can be almost autonomous, while Facebook still remains a communicator.

Version "Theft of the Brain":

However, the main goal of Zuckerberg’s visit to Moscow is considered to be a search for new ideas and developers, especially since it is timed to the Facebook World Hack Tour - an event created to get acquainted with the potential of local specialists and the selection of the best. The winner-the author of the best application-is awarded a trip to San Francisco and work in the Facebook team.

The competition is good, but the founder of IBS Group Anatoly Karachinsky claims that several cool Russian programmers have already received an invitation to an interview with Zuckerberger himself without any competition. According to him, those who went, said that they were offered work and an “immediate evacuation to America”.

The industry experts recalled that in the late 90s, Microsoft tried to crank something like that, but then through reasonable officials it was possible to quickly stop this, explaining the corporation that it would not work to export from Russia and the money at the same time. This time, a meeting with Medvedev and aggressive recruiting is held simultaneously. However, those who are most outraged by nonpatriotic programmers in the end say that, except on Facebook, specialists of this class have nowhere to work in Russia.

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