SAN FRANCISCO – Steve Jobs, who mentored Silicon Valley technology leaders in the months before he died, said he admired Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg for “not selling out.” “We talk about social networks in the plural, but I don’t see anybody other than Facebook out there,” Jobs told biographer Walter Isaacson in excerpts of an interview released online by “60 Minutes,” the CBS television show. “Just Facebook, they’re dominating this.”
“I admire Mark Zuckerberg,” Jobs said of Facebook’s chief executive officer on the recording. “I only know him a little bit, but I admire him for not selling out, for wanting to make a company. I admire that, a lot.”
Jobs, who co-founded Apple Inc and died on October 5, told Isaacson his opinions on competitors, including Google Inc and Microsoft Corp, and of his struggles with cancer. The biography, which goes on sale on Tuesday, was based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs and was previewed in tonight’s “60 Minutes.”
