Zuckerberg is the twenty-three-year-old who turned down a billion dollars because he thought he was sitting on an idea that was even bigger. The gamble has paid off (at the time of this writing) to the tune of a nearly half a trillion dollars in market value. It helped that advertising against everyone’s personal lives also proved to be lucrative, and that the reverse-chronological scrolling mechanism of the News Feed proved to be perfectly suited for the coming age of mobile computing. But none of that would have been possible had Zuckerberg not matured into the sort of businessman who could
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