Sitting in a glass-walled conference room nicknamed The Aquarium, Mark Zuckerberg runs a cost/benefit analysis on the topic that has brought him headlines this year: Mixed martial arts. In many ways, he’s having his Bill Gates moment. Like Zuckerberg, Gates dropped out of Harvard to build a historically significant tech company. Like Zuckerberg, he produced fans, enemies and antitrust concerns on his brusque, relentless way to the top.And then, in his 40s, Gates flipped the script. Then there’s “Cambridge Analytica or ‘evil Mark’,” he says, referring to the company’s data harvesting scandal.Which brings us to the Mark of today.

Source: Forbes November 28, 2023 12:43 UTC