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A nobody nerd becomes a billionaire...


Funny how a guy has become one of the richest men of all time over a really *beep* idea... He created a website where you put photos on it...how the hell is that worth billions...

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Because the CIA saw the potential in it, and backed him through the surveillance state.

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I hate this man with a passion. Want to take away our 2nd Amendment meanwhile his company spends 18 millions bucks last year keep a private army around him 24/7. Classic liberal elitist. No guns for you little goy your not as righteous as tho

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A nobody nerd becomes a billionaire it said. So.... Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, etc etc. Notice a pattern here? Ok.

I’m sure many of the *beep* ideas they had would have been laughed at by someone like the OP. And no, a Zuckerberg fan I am not (hell no). But, those like the op clearly jelly AF. Lol

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It's a data harvesting enterprise. Data is the new oil. Even the advertisements are secondary at best.

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He created an extremely efficient system to data mine and advertise to billions of people on the planet… and you can’t grasp why that is worth billions of dollars?

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Yea it too far fetched. Think its a plot hole

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