That's a false argument: If Zuck was really just a "code monkey who got lucky" he could never have built that business up into anything. The problem with your p

That's a false argument: If Zuck was really just a "code monkey who got lucky" he could never have built that business up into anything. The problem with your premise is that it assumes that a site or a company is "one great idea" — that's the case to a degree but it's really "one great idea + execution + the right team to grow it". Honestly Facebook was far from the first social website — in fact during the web 1.0 era theglobe.com went public and once upon a time there was a great site called SixDegrees.com which lasted from '97 until 2001 and used the same formula that facebook did. But the difference was execution, execution and execution. On a side note techies get screwed over by business people more than the other way around. For every Gates there are dozens of inventors who lost out on their patents and the like. So your real question should be "How to avoid be Winklevossed?"