Google losing ground; Zukerberg losing half of Facebook?

The felony is for fraud and mushrooms. If this is true it would be the third person that Zuckerberg has defrauded.

As for the book being one person's account, there are two settlements that back that person up.

 

I'm really not crying for the Winklevoss twins who settled for a quarter billion dollars or Eduardo Saverin who received a reported $1.1 billion.

Especially since it seems that Zuckerberg did the heavy lifting in the creation of the site (i.e., coding, etc.). Whatever, they're all richer than any of us will ever be. It's not as if he screwed some guy who is scraping by paycheck to paycheck to feed his kids.

 

Shut. The. Fuck. Up.

That is AWESOME.

 

Slate's tech writer makes a similar argument - Nobody involved in this stumbled upon the "original" idea of Facebook, which is essentially a yearbook online in any possible social discipline that you'd like. Rather, it was Zukerberg who actually executed and coded a service that a huge amount of people wanted to use, as opposed to the brothers who wanted to name it after Harvard:

http://www.slate.com/id/2291046/

 

As Zuckerburg said in the movie: "If you could have invented Facebook, you would have invented Facebook."

 

Zuck may be a dick, but it seems fairly obvious there would be no Facebook -- at least as we know it today -- if any of these other clowns had been in charge of anything. Maybe the Winkilvi's contribution was worth $200 million. Fine. But I'm kind of siding with the guy who actually put in 10,000 hours worth or work here.

Saverin didn't exactly get $1.1 billion, btw. He got his seven percent back on controlling interest in the company, which is valued at $1.1. billion. It's not like Zuck actually cut him a check or showed up with five dumptrucks full of $100 bills.

 

Winklevii say fuck it:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/06/23/facebook.winklevoss/index.html?hpt=hp_t2