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represent years of hard work Facebook has only been around for 6 years. The first investment of a half million dollars was made 6 months after the site had lau

• hardy263 16y ago
  Even though Facebook has only been around for 6 years, don't forget the years of him working on programming. If an engineer who has worked for several years on the field, but finally gets a big project that's completed in a year, you don't throw away his previous experience and say that he's just a lucky guy who landed a big job. It's the sum of all the work before that adds up to the current experience now.
  • ojbyrne 16y ago
    Only if you assume there are few others who haved worked for several years on the field. If that's not the case, then you have to attribute at least some of the success to luck.
• anamax 16y ago
  > I'm not diminishing Zuckerberg's insight or hard work but anything that takes off that fast involves a lot of luck. "take off fast" does not require luck. Yes, being lucky can result in take off fast, but there are things that took off fast that didn't involve luck. (Unless you think that "right place, right time, right thing" is an instance of luck, that is, happenstance.)