Facebook CEO and Founder, Mark Zuckerberg will ‘check in’ at IIT Delhi for the much-awaited Townhall today. Mark Zuckerberg will hold a Question and Answer session in Townhall at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. The questions posed to the Facebook CEO are likely to range from those about Facebook’s Internet.org initiative to many more questions that may even include tips for blocking CandyCrush requests. Zuckerberg arrived India so as to connect with Indians, whom he described as “one of our most active and engaged communities” on the social media.

Live Updates:

1.00 pm IST: Can you share an anecdote of how you dealt with being demoralised?

The reality is that as strong as any individual is, no one person can deal with all the challenges, and one way to deal with that is to have partners and co-founders who can keep pushing each other. There is data that shows that companies that have several co-founders are likely to be more successful.

1.00 pm IST: What according to you are the elements of an ideal start-up?

Every good company started with someone who cared about something. Building a company is hard, and you do need to care. You should start a company when you think your work is pretty good.

12.54 pm IST: What was your Eureka moment for creating Facebook?

There is no Eureka moment, or a moment of revelation that Facebook was going to be awesome. You start off building something you care about, and I had built it to be connected to my school community.

I assumed someone like Google or Microsoft would build something like this for the world. We just kept doing one thing at a time and kept going.

Many people thought it wouldn’t make any money. But pretty soon, we had a service bigger than many others.

12.52 pm: Did people recognise you when you visited Taj Mahal?

The Taj Mahal is great, even better than what it looks in pictures. There are monuments built for governments or for military victories. But the Taj is a monument of love, and I am glad I got a chance to go.

There was one girl trying to take a photo of me and fell into a bush. I gave her a pat on the back and told her to be careful.

12.44 pm: Does Internet.org support net neutrality completely?

Absolutely. We do a lot to support net neutrality. In terms of regulation, countries are figuring out what rules they want and we are supportive of that. Around the world, all the regulations are honouring this principle, prioritising zero-rating necessary to connect everyone to the Internet. If Zero Rating allows people to access internet, then who is going to get hurt by that

12.42 pm: How do you use your superpowers (if you have) for the betterment of the world?

With technology, we can build superpowers for people around the world. With Oculus, we are helping people teleport, even to places impossible to go to.

12.37 pm: How can Facebook help illiterate (below-poverty-line) people?

Our mission is giving people the power to share and making the world more connected. We have a few big projects and the graduate rate in the city where we have tried it has increased in just five years.

Internationally, we are creating new types of schools in Africa and also want to bring it to India. For people who don’t have access to good schools, they can be helped by getting access to education material online.

12.32 pm: What are your plans behind investing a lot in Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

We have this goal that in five to ten years, we want to build computer systems that can conceive better and recognise things and have a better sensory system than humans. It is more about increasing intelligence. AI can help visually-challenged people know what is in a photo by reading out the description of the photo. We wish to build computer systems which can recognise things around the world, translate language better, understand any language in a better way.

12.30 pm: Mark speaks about the baby he is expecting with his wife Priscilla Chan. I want to take a video to share that experience with my family and friends who may not be able to come. For this, we are moving towards richer and richer communication.

12.25 pm: Third question: How do we avoid CandyCrush requests?

I saw that this was the top-voted question on my post. We have prioritised to give a solution to this problem.

Here’s The Video:

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