Commentary/Esen Çağlar

"Facebook is about to go public. The company’s value is estimated at $100 billion and the personal wealth of its 27 year-old founder, Mark Zuckerberg, at $27 billion. Facebook is ten times as valuable as Turkey’s biggest company, Tüpraş, and Zuckerberg’s personal wealth is three times the total wealth of the richest Turkish family.

But what if Mark Zuckerberg had not been born in New York, but in Istanbul? Where would he be now if he were Turkish, with the same IQ and appearance?"

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