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ly2 from WF said:
I don't know about Synapse, Googling it now.

I know he isn't dumb, you don't get into that kind of school by being dumb. I think people mistook what I said, I don't think the dude is dumb by a long shot. I just don't think he's some genius businessman. He's obviously smart as fuck, that's def not what I was trying to say.

EDIT: You sure it's called Synapse? I'm googling...not seeing what I expected.

EDIT2: Zuckerberg was born in White Plains, New York and raised in Dobbs Ferry, New York. He started programming when he was in middle school. Early on, Zuckerberg enjoyed developing computer programs, especially communication tools and games. Before attending Phillips Exeter Academy, Mark went to school at Ardsley High School. At high school, he excelled in the classics. He transferred to Phillips Exeter Academy where he immersed himself in Latin. [4] He also built a program to help the workers in his father's office communicate; he built a version of the game Risk and a music player named Synapse that used artificial intelligence to learn the user's listening habits. Microsoft and AOL tried to purchase Synapse and recruit Zuckerberg, but he decided to attend Harvard College instead, where he joined Alpha Epsilon Pi, a Jewish fraternity.[5] In college, he was known for reciting lines from epic poems such as The Iliad.[4]

Doesn't really say much about it.
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Here is an article about Synapse:
In his last semester of high school, Zuckerberg was sitting with friends mulling over what to do for his independent project—an Exeter rite of passage.

“The playlist ran out on my computer, and I thought, ‘You know, there’s really no reason why my computer shouldn’t just know what I want to learn next,’” he explains. “So that’s what we made.”

Synapse was born.

With a classmate, Adam D’Angelo (now a student at CalTech and still a close friend) Zuckerberg designed a program that learned a listener’s musical tastes, and then designed a playlist to match.

“It learned your listening patterns by figuring out how much you like each song at a given point and time, and which songs you tend to listen to around each other,” Zuckerberg says.

The friends created a plug-in for the popular MP3 player WinAmp and posted it up for free on the Internet.

Today, Zuckerberg is reluctant to bring up the issue.

“At this point it’s so old that it’s not even worth discussing that much,” he says, trying to change the subject. But the fallout from Synapse was Zuckerberg’s first entry into the world of the “killer app.”

After the tech site Slashdot.org linked to the students’ site, the offers came rolling in. America Online, WinAmp and Microsoft—among others—all expressed interest in buying the program.

“Some companies offered us right off the bat up to one million, and then we got another offer that was like two million,” he says.

He and D’Angelo at first decided not to sell.

“I don’t really like putting a price-tag on the stuff I do. That’s just like not the point,” Zuckerberg says.

But after the two had matriculated to college, they decided to accept an offer—only to find the company was no longer interested.

“We were pretty naïve about it,” Zuckerberg admits. Today, he retains a legal counsel for his products.
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He's definitely not Bill Gates, and he's probably not a Larry Page or a Sergey Brin. However he didn't just get lucky.
 
seolinker said:
Jews usually much more successfull in business than others.
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Just look at Gene Simmons. That dude has his hands in everything. I'm sure he pales in comparison to many other successful Jews, but it's totally true. Being called a Jew is anything but an insult in this day and age.
 
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