Mark Zuckerburg is worth more than Paul Allen

[Draco]

17 billion vs 13 billion.

Wow, I thought that was pretty amazing!

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Allen bangs hotter chicks.

 

[julius]

I wonder what it's like to be under 30 and worth billions of dollars.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Zuckerberg lives pretty simply I think. He's a nerd. Probably doesn't make much of a difference.

 

[barfo]

Not to me, he isn't.

barfo

 

[THE HCP]

WOW!!! What an amazing story he is to!

 

[jlprk]

His name helps him. It's like Smucker's jam. It just sounds good.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

imaginary money, its just facebooks perceived value, it could pull a myspace and be worth crap in a few years, or he could rule the world. btw i heard zynga is going to go public and likely raise 2 billion or so, not bad for games that could have came out 10 years ago

 

[Nikolokolus]

Quick! Let's get him to buy the Blazers and start dumping hundreds of millions of dollars into it, now that Allen's star is fading.

 

[BlazerBeav]

imaginary money, its just facebooks perceived value, it could pull a myspace and be worth crap in a few years, or he could rule the world. btw i heard zynga is going to go public and likely raise 2 billion or so, not bad for games that could have came out 10 years ago

Agreed, Allen's wealth is proven commodity that. Zuckerberg may not be so rich in the future.

 

[Nate4Prez]

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[BoBoBREWSKI]

Props to Mark... amazing!
I havent heard anything about Mark donating nearly as much $$ as Paul has to charitable causes.

 

[THE HCP]

Mark should sell, sell, sell!

 

[3RA1N1AC]

Props to Mark... amazing!
I havent heard anything about Mark donating nearly as much $$ as Paul has to charitable causes.

http://www.portfolio.com/views/blog.../zuckerberg-joins-group-giving-away-fortunes/

 

[3RA1N1AC]

Mark should sell, sell, sell!

agree, he could lose it all fairly quickly

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

http://www.portfolio.com/views/blog.../zuckerberg-joins-group-giving-away-fortunes/

Props to him!

 

[handiman]

I havent heard anything about Mark donating nearly as much $$ as Paul has to charitable causes.

Just because I'm a sports fan, don't call me a charity case!

 

[Further]

imaginary money, its just facebooks perceived value, it could pull a myspace and be worth crap in a few years, or he could rule the world. btw i heard zynga is going to go public and likely raise 2 billion or so, not bad for games that could have came out 10 years ago

It is thought that Online Poker will be legalized in the US (states could opt out) in the near future, and Zinga has a huge database of average-Americans that like poker. The Online Poker firms that were recently shut out of the US like Pokerstars and Full-Tilt also have good databases, however those databases represent players who already play for money and would likely find whatever new online poker companies come to be after legalization. Zinga on the other had has a database that is much larger and consists of new players who will be targeted and will more than likely be "fish" when playing for real money. The site that has the most fish will attract the most players, fish will fair better against other fish and quality players will be able to beat the game. The Zinga poker database could be the foundation for a half-billion in profit per year, for a online casino in the near future.



EDIT: My point in writing this was to say that Zinga is much more than their games, they have very desirable databases that can be used for all sorts of things like poker or directed advertising. It's those databases and access to a wide customer base that makes the company worth so much.