Zuckerberg got hit by lightening and, after cheating his partners out of what they had created, decided “why not?” He has retained the maturity of an 18-year-old because he could. Most people grow-up because they have to. Zuckerberg never had to. He is the victim of what happened to him and the fact that basically he’s a schmuck. Failure to understand what will happen in the future is characteristic of not having to worry about it. Certainly the grown-ups who latched-on to the Wunderkind understood this but, hey! The billions of dollars freely spent on whatever they wanted had to help. Zuckerberg is now primed for destruction.
In 1957 a man named Ken Olsen started a small computer company based upon engineering insight. Some years later it was the biggest employer in New England. The stock hit $199. Fifteen years after he stated, “No one will ever want a computer on their desk,” it was gone like flash-paper. 135,000 people out of a job. Hundreds of billions of $$ gone, sold off to the lowest bidder. Olsen died several years later, probably from a broken heart.
I’ve seen many “concerningly large” businesses die abruptly (and usually predictably), all accused of being monopolies (which they weren’t).
The DEC Rainbow was an attempt to join the PC world, but it was a CP/M machine that was never fully compatible with IBM. It had great VT-100 emulation though.
Failure to understand what will happen in the future is characteristic of not having to worry about it.
This may well even happen to the Clintons and to the ObamaJarretts as well. The confidence of having gotten away with everything for too long kills your defenses.