[nickgeiger]

Is this really due to impatience though? You've picked the cream of the crop to make your point, but arguably I'd say these guys were visionaries that stuck to their guns (skated to where the puck was going) more than they were impatient. If anything, they were very patient to let the world catch up to their ideas.

[taphangum]

I would agree that with Zuckerberg, that is probably the case. Andrew Mason however, had only been doing ThePoint for a year before he decided to pivot to groupon.