kinos vaatamas. Film räägib loo Zuckerbergi kursusekaaslase Eduardo Saverini, Harvardi matemaatikust imelapse pilgu läbi. Eduardo investeeris tuhat dollarit oma raha Facebooki arendamisse pärast kohtumist Markiga Harvardi suletud juudi üliõpilasklubi peol. Kuna Zuckerberg Saverini viimase vähese initsiatiivi tõttu vahepeal Facebookist välja tõrjus, siis tundis too end reedetuna ja kirjutas Facebooki loomisest skandaalse raamatu "Miljardärid juhuse läbi" (Accidental billionaires). Film on tehtud raamatu põhjal. Kuid tulevikus Saverini vaevalt et enam südant puistama hakkab. Tänaseks kuulub talle viis protsenti Facebookist ning ta tunnistati ametlikult kaasasutajaks. Tema tagasiostmise hinnaks väidetakse olevat miljard dollarit. Zuckerbergi eesmärk on luua ja valitseda teistmoodi internetti. Google ja teised otsimootorid indekseerivad veebi, kuid Zuckerberg arvates on "suurem osa sellest infost, millest me hoolime, meie peades
were worth at the time. In 2007, at least 10 Ukrainian banks found themselves in the hands of foreign owners. Good deals turned Ukrainian oligarchs into dollar billionaires overnight mostly because of the overheated banking sector. The prices paid for banks ranged from 2.6 to almost 5 times their equity value the latter was paid for Praveks Bank. To justify the gargantuan prices, the
debt. Almost everyone who is on the top today was once at the bot- tom. Almost everyone who is at the front of the line of life was once at the back of the line. Almost everyone who is wealthy today was once poor. Most of the five million millionaires in the United States are self-made. That is, they started out with nothing and worked their way up. Our world today has more than 300 self-made billionaires and multibillionaires as well. Many of these are people who started with little or nothing, and by changing their thinking, they un- leashed their own inner potentials to achieve extraordinary financial results. And almost anything that anyone else has done, within rea- son, you can do as well. What are your goals? ■ THE POWER OF COMMITMENT One of my favorite quotations is from the mountain climber Charles Murray.
it sells. Honestly and intellectually, I am at a loss to understand how a vast continent containing 750 million people (update, 800 million now) could continue to be a vast array of zombies, incapable of understanding or dissecting the basic fundamental knowledge of life. Maybe my most learned brothers or sisters could come up with an explanation – an explanation not bordering on the irrational and outdated clichés of imperialism or racism. In fact, of all the billionaires in the world, only a South African Caucasian is in the club, and he did not get his wealth from Europe. He got his wealth from African from the gold mining and other minerals. But the millions of Africans who work for him are part of the poorest people of Africa. Maybe I can be educated and offered an explanation for the fact that throughout the vast continent of Africa, everything concerning transportation is also a product of the Caucasian race. Okay, some