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by ritchiea 1697 days ago
He's lived a different life than nearly anyone else. Certainly so caught up in his responsibilities to Facebook that he's been unable to grow and change and branch out and fail, and be rejected and forced to reinvent or repurpose himself the way most people do. It's impossible to imagine what my life would be like or how my perspective would be different if I was caught in a bubble of a project I started in my late teens turning into a near trillion dollar success that only grew and grew from the moment I started on it.
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I was involved in a startup project the first couple years of college. We didn’t know anything about what we were doing so it languished in development hell and is still in it as far as I know, with a new crop of kids. I can’t imagine being stuck in that mindset, there’s a lot of maturing that happens when you have a boss and need to work with a team and he’s always been the head of this college project that’s worth a trillion dollars now. Doesn’t sound healthy at all
I think him being rejected by most people drove him to do what he does