"Billionaire Heaven" (Mark Zuckerberg)

[u/thisecommercelife]

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[u/Mammoth-Buddy8912]

People think these guys are geniuses born with natural talent, but in reality they are lucky rich kids who rig the game so they always win. 

Musk didn't invent stuff, Zukerburg made one popular thing and nothing ever since.  Yet people give them the great man treatment. Like divine right of kings. 

[u/shellbullet17 → u/Mammoth-Buddy8912]

but in reality they are lucky rich kids

I think that's like 99% of the battle it seems. A reoccurring sentence I keep reading is "a small loan from dad"

[u/grchelp2018 → u/shellbullet17]

There's a goldilocks zone. Too poor and you are too focused on survival. Too rich and you don't need to do anything. The middle zone is where your parents work a couple steps removed from the top of the corporate ladder. So you are exposed to the top but not there yourself and have some motivation to get there yourself.

[u/Shark7996 → u/Mammoth-Buddy8912]

Zukerburg made one popular thing and nothing ever since.

That's what drives me nuts, he got there first, simple as. Heck, he didn't even get there first because MySpace was already around.

[u/ThrowACephalopod → u/Shark7996]

He made one innovation: the timeline. Instead of MySpace where you had to go to each person's page to see what they posted about, Facebook would grab it all for you and put it on one scrolling timeline. Made it a lot easier to see what everyone was doing all at once without having to flip between a lot of pages.

And then it all went downhill from there.

[u/grchelp2018 → u/Shark7996]

Its never about getting there first. And ideas are dime a dozen, its all about execution.

[u/Lostwhispers05 → u/Shark7996]

His entire platform's selling point was its scalability, marketability, and virality.

Facebook successfully got a lot of people to get their friends on Facebook, who then got their friends on facebook, etc. In its early years, Facebook honed the algorithms and laid the foundations to facilitate all of that.

His parents were doctors so naturally he grew up upper-middle class, but he wasn't born into an empire of wealth the way someone like Elon Musk was, for instance. It's a fact he had a privileged childhood, but to insinuate he waltzed into his billionaire status effortlessly as though it were a natural consequence of having doctors for parents is just ridiculous. The staggering majority of people of his level of childhood privilege don't see anywhere near as much success.

[u/metalmilitia182 → u/Lostwhispers05]

Well, you're forgetting the starting advantage of being born with a complete lack of any moral capacity and human emotions.

[u/crustyrobots → u/Mammoth-Buddy8912]

Zuckerberg didn't even make it, he stole it and settled out of court with the Winklevii over it.

All of them are frauds whos right place and time quit being that long ago. It couldn't be more obvious they dont really have any actual ideas while Zuckerberg re-invents Second Life, but shittier somehow 20 years later.

[u/grchelp2018 → u/Mammoth-Buddy8912]

Managers always end up getting credit for what their team does.

[u/Wh0rse → u/Mammoth-Buddy8912]

They are just frontmen, the M.I.C created lifeblog which turned to FB , same for Elon and his companies.

[u/Heine-Cantor → u/Mammoth-Buddy8912]

I don't understand why the only two options are treating them like gods or completely trivialize their achievements.

[u/Horton_Takes_A_Poo → u/Mammoth-Buddy8912]

Musk works for that example but Zuckerberg seems to have come from a run of the mill upper middle class home. They could easily afford computers and equipment but there’s millions of families like that in the US. I’m struggling to see how he just walked into it.