I don't expect highly successful people to be gods, or even heroes. I'm nowhere close to being either. I merely expect them to be as talented as I am, or at lea

I don't expect highly successful people to be gods, or even heroes. I'm nowhere close to being either. I merely expect them to be as talented as I am, or at least on the same order of magnitude. Zuckerberg fails. Frankly, the blowout nature of his success results mainly from luck and positioning, as has been well-chronicled. If Zuckerberg had started Facebook at a state university, it would be just another obscure social networking site that was eventually clobbered by a superior competitor, instead of running over its then-superior competitors, as Facebook did in its early days. Facebook is now a reasonably strong product, but that has everything to do with the momentum it has developed (Harvard is high ground for prestige marketing, and it's easy to gain speed when each cardinal direction is downhill) and the quality of engineers it can get now, and absolutely nothing to do with Zuckerberg and his "vision".