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It wasn't like he alone created that half a trillion in value. Facebook employs thousands of people. He was at the right place at the right time.


Yes, but if not for him, those thousands of people would be creating that value for people other than Facebook stockholders.


A lot of these stockholders are institutional investors or people investing through them in index funds, mutual funds, ETFs and such, so for them it probably wouldn't matter - if another company had taken place of Facebook, they'd invest in that instead, with the same result.




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