McNamee presents a compelling case of what went wrong at Facebook, and how the top management was responsible for this debacle. Meet Vinod Rai Gupta, the face behind Havells and the fourth richest woman in India Know about her $3.9 billion net worth, family & more Mostly, with people having witnessed scandals arising out of Cambridge Analytica and the US presidential elections, Robert McNamee’s account is the “Oh! This is what happened account”, where you end up wondering why it took so much time to uncover all these. But this is no conspiracy theory account the author does substantiate his claims with facts and data. After a point, it seems like a script right out of conspiracy theory shows that are often featured on TV, concerning aliens. Although exciting at first, the pattern becomes repetitive. Methodically, each chapter starts with the author’s findings, and how he went about uncovering things. Not just that, in this 14-chapter saga, he also provides a historical perspective on the making of Facebook and the Silicon Valley phenomenon. McNamee, thus, presents an insider account of what went wrong with the largest social media conglomerate of our times. Robert McNamee being an insider - he was one of the early investors in the company - gives us a peek into the workings of the company and the constant shirking by its top management. Facebook is not the only corporation, but it’s one of the prime culprits in “that’s not our job” phenomenon. Robert McNamee’s book Zucked is a testament to how big corporations are willfully ignoring responsibility by simply resorting to, “That’s not our mandate”. All they have is a mandate to win, at all cost, and the rules have gone out of the window. At a debate, a person once asked a Congressman, “Sir, what is your take on foreign policy?” The politician, to the person’s amusement, replied, “That’s not my mandate.” The person countered with a question on economy, to which the politician smugly replied, “That’s not my mandate.” Tired after a few rounds of questioning and getting nothing but the same reply, the person frustratingly asked, “Sir, what is your mandate?” The politician, confounded by the question, said, “All I want is to win.” The story is not about Donald Trump, but today’s corporations.

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