Mark Zuckerberg's Superyacht Arrives in Seattle as Meta Eliminate 1,400 Local Jobs

Here's an interesting follow-up to my May 24 post, "Meta's Final Email: Collect Your Belongings and Leave". If you recall 8,000 employees were fired as Meta shifted around their priorities on AI. 

As reported by Yahoo! Finance on Friday, "...(Mark) Zuckerberg himself decided to celebrate the sweeping layoffs, by bringing his 390-foot superyacht out to Seattle – a city with 1,400 newly unemployed former Meta workers". 

Zuckerberg's yacht, named Launchpad, docked in the city Tuesday according to the Seattle Times. The yacht reportedly cost $300 million, and was met with insults and jeers as it swept into the Seattle area. 

The co-founder of Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms (left) wasn't even present – he seems content to merely own the yacht, without having to go through any of the trouble of actually using it. The yacht has apparently remained a hatesink on its pier, with passing cyclists and joggers swearing at the boat as they go by. 

Zuckerberg's $300 million yacht cost more than a year of employment for every person in the Seattle area that Meta just dismissed – the company averages a salary of $162,700 for software engineers in the area, according to ZipRecruiter, and Zuck's big boat cost about 1,844 times that number. It almost seems like a trade: Seattle loses 1,400 jobs, and in exchange the guy who cut those jobs puts his boat there instead. 

It tells us a lot about Zuckerberg!