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		oh_sigh on Sept 4, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business > The 20 year-old version of Mark Zuckerberg beats the 20 year-old version of me every time. What basis do you have for saying this? If Mark missed out on the social media boom, what are the odds that he would find another industry waiting for a multibillion dollar company to come along?

xiaoma on Sept 5, 2015 [–]

I couldn't really code a website when I was 20. He had already built music software that Microsoft offered $1,000,000 for when he was in high school.

There were many other social networks starting when fb did. They did not build and iterate at the same speed.

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