Mark Zuckerberg
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Mark Zuckerberg, who has been all-but-silent since Facebook's May IPO, will sit down for live interview this afternoon at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco.
Admittedly, he'll be before a friendly crowd of startup founders and hard-core techies -- it's hard to imagine him appearing before, say, a Goldman Sachs conference -- but he'll surely be grilled on an array of topics. TechCrunch founder-turned-venture-investor Michael Arrington will conduct the interview.
Let's hope Zuckerberg is frank. For sure, he'll continue to talk about how Facebook is built of the long haul and that he's not going to cater to the short-term desires of Wall Street. We know that. And yet, given the stock's performance -- halved since going public in May -- he can't ignore that he has a short-term problem on his hand.
Tune in to CNET's live coverage here at 2 p.m. PT
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