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Zuckerberg: 'Employees want to make a bunch of money'

SAN FRANCISCO--Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that in order to take his company where he wants it to go, he knows that he needs to help prospective -- and current -- employees "make a bunch of money."

Facebook's mission has been to build a great service and to put that mission in front of profit margins, Zuckerberg told a packed audience at TechCrunch Disrupt today (see CNET's live blog). The idea, he said, is that building a great service and a great company go hand in hand. And getting great employees to help with that mission … Read more

Salesforce.com's Benioff: Tech is not the 'Hunger Games'

For Salesforce.com co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff, business is more than creating disruptive technologies and changing business models. It's also about helping other people. He has been true to his word in donating $100 million to build a children's hospital in San Francisco, and the company's philanthropic arm has given more than $40 million in grants over the last 13 years.

But Benioff isn't all about helping other people. In a panel discussion prior to his interview at TechCrunch Disrupt with angel investor and TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, the CEOs from Asana, Box … Read more

Kevin Rose says key for startups is to 'edit your team'

SAN FRANCISCO--As a serial entrepreneur, Digg founder Kevin Rose no doubt had a lot of people telling him how to grow his businesses. But the best advice he ever got was to get rid of employees that don't fit.

At TechCrunch Disrupt today, Rose -- who also co-founded Revision3, Pownce, and Milk, and who is now an investment partner at Google Ventures -- told interviewer Colleen Taylor that Twitter and Square founder Jack Dorsey gave him the best business suggestion he ever got: "Edit your team."

Dorsey told him, Rose said, "'You're just going to … Read more

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee banks on tech startups

SAN FRANCISCO--"San Francisco is the innovation capital of the world," Mayor Ed Lee proclaimed to more that 3,000 techies gathered here at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference. He was preaching to the choir as he previewed a map showing more than 800 startups located in San Francisco. The map is part of InnovateSF, a month-long series of events in October to promote tech innovation in the city.

Legendary angel investor Ron Conway echoed Lee's cheerleading for San Francisco as a capital of Silicon Valley. "When Pinterest moved to San Francisco (from Palo Alto, Calif.) a … Read more

Path founder Dave Morin says app's No. 2 country is China

Although most of the people using Path are in the U.S., China has become the second-largest market for the social-networking app, founder and CEO Dave Morin

said today.

The entrepreneur, who left Facebook in 2010 to start Path with Napster creator Shawn Fanning, spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt today. Path aims to be a sort of modern journal, filled with photos and thoughts to be shared with only your closest friends.

Path's success in China is not surprising considering the recent explosion of smartphone users in the country. China has a huge population and many people living there own … Read more

Square's Jack Dorsey to tech founders: Question everything

SAN FRANCISCO -- Square and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey said today that founders must be willing to accept new ideas -- which can come from anywhere -- if they want their companies to evolve and to keep disrupting existing industries.

Opening his keynote address at TechCrunch Disrupt here today, Dorsey noted that he didn't grow up wanting to be an entrepreneur. Now that he's helped start two of the most important companies in Silicon Valley, though, Dorsey said he wanted to share some of the lessons he's learned during his career, ideas that he clearly thinks can … Read more