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In my experience, the better CEOs have vision, execution, charisma, massive egos, luck, high paranoia, no problem with selling out their mother to further their business and decisiveness or more bluntly, balls.

Gates, Jobs and Zuckerburg possess all those qualities in varying levels.

It's these things that let them do things that most people might view 'insane' today but in retrospect will be viewed as 'awesome'.

There are plenty of examples in history, and Zuckerburg's best one is probably turning down a billion dollars for Facebook in the beginning.

He had the vision, massive ego and balls to say No.