Who cares about their boring pasts? I'm more concerned about their boring present. Say what you want about Elon Musk, but at least he's up to something. What's the point of having a billion dollars if not to develop wild ideas?

These guys are all like Samir in Office Space: "You know what I would do if I had a million dollars? I would invest half of it in low risk mutual funds and then take the other half over to my friend Asadulah who works in securities…"

As Michael responds, this is kind of missing the point.

Does Zuckerberg really think the best thing he could do with his life and $77 billion is to incrementally improve the effectiveness of advertising on Facebook? There's nothing else he can think of to do?