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  • eDotd
    We ain't cool de la?
    • Jul 2006
    • 6284
    #1

    Mark Zuckerberg: The New Bill Gates?

    Yesterday, it was announced that Microsoft had bought a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $240 million, valuing the social utility site at roughly $15 billion. The deal makes geeky twenty-three-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, at least on paper, worth $5 billion. Talk about revenge of the nerds.

    Facebook began as a Harvard-specific site through which students could rate each other's hotness in Zuckerberg's dorm room (possibly with some other people who have since sued him).

    After reportedly almost getting kicked out of school for creating the site, and following the advice of hero Bill Gates, Zuckerberg dropped out to pursue Facebook full-time. Brave!

    http://news.aol.com/newsbloggers/2007/10/25/is-mark-zuckerberg-the-new-bill-gates/?ncid=NWS00010000000001


    Why didn't I think of that?? It seems like everytime one of these deals go down I find myself asking this question...

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    • Double Eights
      Banned
      • Nov 2005
      • 5733
      #2
      Re: Mark Zuckerberg: The New Bill Gates?

      Lucky bastard.

      I need to invent something. But what?

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        • elicoleman
          Im The Baby/Gotta Love Me
          • Sep 2002
          • 34655
          #3
          Re: Mark Zuckerberg: The New Bill Gates?

          You could always invent a sports gaming site where we can talk about sports games, actual sporting events, and just random crap.

          We could sure use one of those.
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            • SLAYER
              *n H**t*s..R*b**ld*ng..
              • Jun 2004
              • 1915
              #4
              Re: Mark Zuckerberg: The New Bill Gates?

              Originally posted by momentousceltic
              Why didn't I think of that?? It seems like everytime one of these deals go down I find myself asking this question...
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                • Blzer
                  Resident film pundit
                  • Mar 2004
                  • 42515
                  #5
                  Re: Mark Zuckerberg: The New Bill Gates?

                  Originally posted by Double Eights
                  Lucky bastard.

                  I need to invent something. But what?
                  How about a "Jump to Conclusions" mat?
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                    • theaub
                      Stop! Homer Time!
                      • Feb 2004
                      • 9643
                      #6
                      Re: Mark Zuckerberg: The New Bill Gates?

                      Originally posted by Blzer
                      How about a "Jump to Conclusions" mat?
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                        • Hooe
                          Hall Of Fame
                          • Aug 2002
                          • 21554
                          #7
                          Re: Mark Zuckerberg: The New Bill Gates?

                          Isn't he also getting sued by a rival social networking site for stolen code? I thought I had heard something to that effect.

                          Not to knock him or anything, Facebook is the ultimate procrastination tool, and for that I thank him (as I'm sure he thanks me for helping build his exploding bank account).

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                            • CMH
                              Making you famous
                              • Oct 2002
                              • 26203
                              #8
                              Re: Mark Zuckerberg: The New Bill Gates?

                              Whoever created MySpace should steal code from Facebook because MySpace is a piece of slow crap.

                              It's amazing how streamlined Facebook is despite all of it's additions.
                              "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

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                                • mgoblue
                                  Go Wings!
                                  • Jul 2002
                                  • 25477
                                  #9
                                  Re: Mark Zuckerberg: The New Bill Gates?

                                  I wouldn't say the new Bill Gates...If anyone I'd single out someone more like Kevin Rose who has done multiple sites. Zuckerberg's rich, and Facebook's hot right now, but I don't think it's got quite the long term appeal/room for growth like Microsoft did. Also, most of these social networking sites really only target the 25 and under crowd, older people (my parents, even me to some extent) don't really go to Facebook. I have a profile, but I was a few years after Facebook got huge.

                                  Not ripping on Zuckerberg at all, it's amazing what he pulled off, just not quite sure he's the genius people may think.
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                                    • jmood88
                                      Sean Payton: Retribution
                                      • Jul 2003
                                      • 34639
                                      #10
                                      Re: Mark Zuckerberg: The New Bill Gates?

                                      Originally posted by Krioniq
                                      Isn't he also getting sued by a rival social networking site for stolen code? I thought I had heard something to that effect.

                                      Not to knock him or anything, Facebook is the ultimate procrastination tool, and for that I thank him (as I'm sure he thanks me for helping build his exploding bank account).
                                      Yeah it was friendster or something like that, he used to work for them and they said that he took their code to make facebook.
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                                        • jmood88
                                          Sean Payton: Retribution
                                          • Jul 2003
                                          • 34639
                                          #11
                                          Re: Mark Zuckerberg: The New Bill Gates?

                                          Originally posted by YankeePride_YP
                                          Whoever created MySpace should steal code from Facebook because MySpace is a piece of slow crap.

                                          It's amazing how streamlined Facebook is despite all of it's additions.
                                          Myspace is really terrible now and it's filled with spam.
                                          Originally posted by Blzer
                                          Let me assure you that I am a huge proponent of size, and it greatly matters. Don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise.

                                          If I went any bigger, it would not have properly fit with my equipment, so I had to optimize. I'm okay with it, but I also know what I'm missing with those five inches. :)

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                                            • CMH
                                              Making you famous
                                              • Oct 2002
                                              • 26203
                                              #12
                                              Re: Mark Zuckerberg: The New Bill Gates?

                                              Well, friendster is another crap site. They had potential to do things right but they do everything MySpace does worse and don't offer the connectivity between friends that facebook offers.

                                              MySpace is pure garbage. I'm gonna continue posting in this thread with new negative adjectives to describe that site. The only reason I still have a profile on that abysmal pile of dog feces is because I have long lost dumb friends on it that still don't understand the greatness that is Facebook.
                                              "It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace

                                              "You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob Neyer

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