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post #1 of 121
8/5/12 at 3:28pm
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"Is Mark Zuckerberg a genius?"




I am kind of swaying on this. There was already very successful social media sites before Facebook, he got help writing the first version of Facebook, there has been a LOT of controversy about the site no matter what way you look at it.

However. Billionaire. Will never have to work again. Clearly a good programmer.

Was it a fluke that it got so big?

What's your thoughts?
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post #2 of 121
8/5/12 at 3:30pm
Fluke.
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post #3 of 121
8/5/12 at 3:31pm
i dont know... i mean with a bit of knowledge in programming, anyone can make a website. but, for that website to grow as large as facebook is, that is the hard part.
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post #4 of 121
8/5/12 at 3:37pm
He's lucky, nothing more. He created something and it just soared in popularity. Sheer luck.
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post #5 of 121
8/5/12 at 3:40pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Thingamajig View Post

He's lucky, nothing more. He created something and it just soared in popularity. Sheer luck.

I pretty much agree with this.
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8/5/12 at 3:40pm
I wouldn't call him a Genius. Would you call Steve Jobs a genius or Bill Gates? I wouldn't. I would call them an exceptional socialist. All 3 of them made a product and released it and the masses love their product thumb.gif

I bet I could beat all 3 of them at a game of Chess -- Let's see how much of a genius they are then rolleyes.gif
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post #7 of 121
8/5/12 at 3:41pm
I believe, getting something/website famous or "BIG" has nothing to do with computer knowledge biggrin.gif
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8/5/12 at 3:43pm
He isn't dumb, he had a pretty good idea. Not a genius, and pretty lucky.
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8/5/12 at 3:43pm
In the moovie "the social network" he stole the basic idea from some other guys from harward, I dont know how accurate that moovie is though(and to be honest I couldnt care less). smile.gif
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8/5/12 at 3:44pm
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In the moovie "the social network" he stole the basic idea from some other guys from harward, I dont know how well the moovie tells what realy happened though(and to be honest I couldnt care less). smile.gif

Yeah, the Winklevoss... rumour has it that he settled for $60M
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