( Mashable ) -- Despite previous statements that he had no plans to see `` The Social Network , '' Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg did , in fact , watch the film on the company 's field trip to the movies last Friday . I just wrapped up an interview with Facebook 's iconic founder and Groups Product Manager Justin Schaffer at the company 's headquarters in Palo Alto , California . We discussed the new Groups feature and data portability , but I did also manage to sneak in a question or two about the film , specifically about Zuckerberg 's take on it . While Zuckerberg skirted questions about his opinion of Jesse Eisenberg 's portrayal of his early years , the 26-year-old CEO did say he 's interested to see what effect `` The Social Network '' has on entrepreneurship . He told me that he gets `` lots of messages '' from people who claim that they have been very much inspired by what he 's done ; some say he 's inspired them to go into computer science , others to start their own company . I could n't get him to rate the film for me , but I did get him to talk about what effect he thought it would have on the company he 's built . He 's been asked a lot of questions about what exactly happened during Facebook 's early years , he said in our interview . However , he added , `` We build products that 500 million people see ... If 5 million people see a movie , it does n't really matter that much . '' In other words , the movie is a drop in the bucket compared to Facebook 's bigger ambitions to make the entire world more social . It seems like he 's stopped worrying about the potential impact of the movie on Facebook 's image and is focused on building and launching new products . We 've said all along that Zuckerberg should like the Facebook movie . I do n't think you 'll see him promoting it for an Oscar anytime soon , but it does n't seem like he fears it anymore , either . © 2013 MASHABLE.com . All rights reserved .
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg once ` ` The Social Network '' on a company field trip . ` ` If 5 million people see a website , it does n't really matter that much , '' Zuckerberg said . One wonders what impact ` ` The Social Network '' will have on entrepreneurship .