At Parker’s urging, Zuckerberg decided that Thefacebook shouldn’t just plan for the immediate future; it should plan for an exponential future. To prepare for the coming autumn and the anticipated influx of users, Thefacebook desperately needed new servers. Zuckerberg decreed that, rather than struggle to keep up, the site’s infrastructure should, from that point forward, be architected to anticipate ten times the number of users it was getting at any one moment. That would cost more money than Facebook was already generating. Zuckerberg and his family were forced to sink $85,000 into the
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