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Rolling Stone replows old ground on Zuckerberg, Facebook
By Gary Jacobson | June 18, 2008 at 4:20pm | 0
Don’t bother reading the Rolling Stone story (dated June 26) on Mark Zuckerberg and “The Battle for Facebook.” It has been done before. And better.
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg unbound
By Gary Jacobson | December 3, 2007 at 11:00am | 0
Writing the first draft of history is always perilous.
In September 2004, in a story about a then new lawsuit that accused Mark Zuckerberg of stealing the idea for Facebook from fellow Harvard students, The Boston Globe wrote: “There isn’t much money at stake.”
Oops.
Today Facebook is valued on paper at $15 billion or so, making Zuckerberg’s 20 percent stake worth $3 billion. The 23-year-old is well on his way to becoming the second richest Harvard dropout in history, behind Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft.
