The World At His Fingertips

Rating: 9/10 (9 December 2010)

Mark Zuckerberg  And His Lessons For Entrepreneurs
Mark Zuckerberg is a genius who used the power of his mind to see the invisible needs of visible human beings. Something that management guru C K Prahlad called as "Strategic Intent" many decades back. Mark also saw what he had in him and how to use it; what he didn't have and where or who to get it from.
Mark Zuckerberg is also a shark who used the power of his mind to bite the lesser species – Homo Sapiens v1.0 ..Homo Sapiens v1.9 - in every weak spot at every opportunity. For example, in a court scene, when the jury begs for attention, Mark says his mind is on something so different that his opponents don't even have the intellectual ability to think of but will claim to be theirs! But the script would have demanded that!
As to how Mark says the many things he says, one should only see the movie to experience it! Standing tall and heard the loudest was his line
"If you were the inventors of Facebook, you would have invented Facebook!".
All other actors are better than the best I have seen in my life – but nowhere near Mark!
In the way I experienced it, the movie is a lesson on how entrepreneurs can sow a seed called 'idea', see them germinate to become a plant and how the plant needs to be watered so that the buds can blossom. And all this has to happen at the speed of light!
It also highlights the importance of acknowledging the role of mentors and having the right mentors to make the unimaginable become real.
Is There Anything Immoral Or Unethical About Mark?
Businesses thrive and flourish on the greed of its founders. However, this greed should be directed at the competition and not on the Co- Founders – in letter and spirit. A fact acknowledged by the court when Eduardo won his case.
With the money he now has, he can buy the world – but if ever he goes bankrupt in his lifetime again, he can never get the spirit of Eduardo Saverin to be with him.
At no stage of the movie does the viewer get an impression that Mark Zuckerberg is "An Accidental Billionaire". It this technology age, it always looked like 'a windfall that was waiting to happen'.
Somewhere along the way, if the Mark Zuckerbergs can be a bit more fair, moral and ethical to the Eduardo Saverins of the world – who, as buddies, extend every possible help in the embryonic stages of the business - on money matters and not short change them, the world will be a better place for entrepreneurs and the people whose families depend on them for livelihood.
Otherwise, the Zuckerbergs suck and no wonder Mark is a Harvard drop out because there was one thing Harvard would have tried to teach him – ethical and moral obligations - and he would never learn!