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Zuckerberg Stake Post IPO Greater than 10,000 Walmart Stores' Revenue

Zuckerberg has come a long way since his Harvard days of writing the source code for the largest social network in the world. Controlling over 1/8th of the world’s online experience, Zuckerberg sits tall as the CEO of the largest social network. Now Zuckerberg is part of an elite club that sits next to the president at the White House, discussing national strategies. 

While “The Social Network” portrays Zuckerberg as an awkward, lanky teenager who stole an idea, he is representative of one of the best execution artists. An idea is as good as its execution, and Zuckerberg had to battle Friendster, MySpace, Buddylists and social networks originating from similar Ivy League campuses. The Winklevosses had their own separate social network which never took off. Now imagine a world where Zuckerberg followed all the rules and collaborated with the Winklevosses. 800 Million Users? I think not. 

The History of Thomas Edison

Adam Lashinsky, author of Inside Apple, delves into the complex relationship between Steve Jobs and Apple employees. Jobs restricted the outside personal activities of Apple employees, with the exception of COO Tim Cook. Jobs was cultivating a personality very different from himself, believes Lashinsky, because “I think it would have been very difficult for Jobs to have tolerated being succeeded by someone like him.”

If Apple is Silicon Valley’s answer to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, then Lashinsky provides readers with a golden ticket to step inside. In a 2008 Fortune cover story entitled, “The Genius Behind Steve: Could Operations Whiz Tim Cook Run the Company Someday?” he predicted that Tim Cook, then an unknown, would eventually succeed Steve Jobs as CEO.

Inventor Portrait: Ralph Baer

Ralph Baer is often called the father of video games. His invention, the Magnavox Odyssey, was the first home console system.In this video, after 40 years of his legendary invention, Ralph talks about why he still invents at 90. 

“I am not a champion of lost causes, but of causes not yet won”

- Norman Thomas, 1930

The above quote was selected by Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, as her college yearbook quote some thirty years ago. Because of its author, a few have attacked Justice Sotomayor as having “socialistic tendencies”. But, if you consider the content of the quote rather than its author, does it really suggest a socialist world view? 

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The Secret of Life in 46 Seconds | Steve Jobs

“When you grow up you, tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world, try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.”

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