It's Called Mommy and Daddy's Money

Image via Wikipedia

Mark Zuckerberg

All the rage right now is The Social Network. Include me in it as well cause I will surely watch it. Maybe not at the movies but I will rent it on DirecTv when it's released. Not to take away from Mark Zuckerberg's genius, or from his rival Adam Goldberg who also created a college network interface. Both are owed and given their due diligence when it comes to brainyism.  What I don't get about the whole 'create a really hip social networking device and change the world' sensation that is currently sweeping this nation is the lack of attention given to parental wealth.

Sure Zuckerberg created Facebook and I don't buy the notion that he stole it for one minute.  Goldberg also created a similar device but eventually lost out to Zuckerberg's strategy.  In addition to being a genius coder, Zuckerberg is an even better businessman.  And even better than being smart with computers and with money is being smarter with other people's money, namely that of your parents.  I don't know too many people who can afford to take some time off from college, move to California and mess with code all day long without capital of their own.  It just doesn't happen all that often in Middle America.

That's not to say that Zuckerberg couldn't have invented Facebook without coming from a rich family.  He could have.  It's only to say that someone else given the means he had easily could have too.  I think Zuckerberg knows this, hence his gracious gift to a New Jersey school district for a pocket change amount of $100 million.