THE MAKING OF A TECH MOGUL
‘HI, I'M Mark.” The introduction is unnecessary. Mark Zuckerberg is one of the world's most recognisable faces. He's the CEO of Facebook, the world's largest social network with almost two billion members, more than half of whom log in every day.
It's made him, in today's reckoning, the sixth-richest person in the world. And because he founded Facebook at such a tender age - 19, in his Harvard dorm room - he's seen as walking proof of the mind-boggling opportunities advanced technologies offer to even the young and obscure.
Mark (now 35) is beyond famous. And he’s here – in Lagos, Nigeria.
If there was any doubt who he is, this pleasant,brown-haired young man with a goofy smile and an apparent aversion to blinking is dressed exactly like . . . Mark Zuckerberg! He’s wearing one of his favourite T-shirts that signifies laid-back geek – but is actually a Brunello Cucinelli creation which retails for $325 each (R5 500). He’s got a cupboard full of them, liberating him from having to make daily decisions about what to wear.
So in his signature shirt, paired with Nike trainers and blue jeans, Facebook’s founder and CEO looks the way he always does. What’s unusual is that no one expected him to walk into this room, in this city, in this country, on this continent.
The people in the sixth-floor studio of the Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB) – young entrepreneurs striving to buck the enormous odds against building successful tech
