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Whose idea did he copy? TheFacebook was nothing like Friendster or MySpace, it came from a completely different angle. Also, why do you assume he wanted to be famous, or had some realization about how to be successful?

The truth is, he executed the shit out of a scalable idea, and he had the vision to see it through many orders of magnitude growth. The idea that there was some master plan is just silly, his success, like most big companies was iterating over time and making a series of successful bets.




Let's start with Winklevoss Twins and early employees that might have given him an idea or two.


> TheFacebook was nothing like Friendster or MySpace, it came from a completely different angle.

In the early days it was more MySpace-like, and the parts that weren't were very much like LiveJournal. The UI was much better though.




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