Mark Zuckerberg. Let's face it, this guy is nothing more nothing less than the richest drug dealer on earth. His trick? to sell a LEGAL DRUG that has got everyone hooked up!
Mark Zuckerberg is the creator of Facebook. Now you see my point. He is what we can commonly call a nerd, a geek, a social misfit. A guy who created the most used social network in the world to date, and he did it from his Harvard dorm room, in 2004. He then developed it to become the billion dollar business it is today; in 2008, he was the youngest person to enter the club of self made BILLIONAIRES in the USA; Viacom, Yahoo, Microsoft have tried to buy his Midas-like enterprise, but he didn't sell it.
Mark is living the revenge of a geek, being the cool guy behind the coolest tool internet had to offer since iRC chat (do you even remember that?); he is young, talented and rich to an extent most of us would never dream to be at age 24. He made loneliness profitable, he helped millions to create the illusion they had thousands of friends, he helped match people with equal centers of interest, who would probably never have the opportunity or the guts to meet in real life...
But there is still something disturbing about that: despite being the hot guy of the moment, the center of attention, he rented an entire club to throw a gigantic party, spent 100 grand to satisfy people who went there to kiss his ass, and still, he was nowhere to be seen, playing wallflower at his own party! The man who gets the planet together, who creates millions of connexions a day, who allowed people to meet and get to know each other in a whole new and different manner seems to still have trouble mingling with the crowd. Like he created facebook for himself, to get "out there" because he couldn't do it in person. Seems like he still can't.
Once a geek, always a geek...
