re: Facebook's engineering lead for the 'Like' button earned $750M for 17 months work

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Truth, especially for insane money like that.

Creating a company from ground up definitely takes hard work, but this dude is worth hundreds of millions and he created the “like” button.



That is some lucky shite right there.

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I'm a leadership, business operational/success junkie. If there's been a book written about it...I've likely read it (e.g. Gladwell, Covey, Maxwell, Duhig). I'm always fascinated about what caused the "jump" for these people. Some of it's timing, some of it's location, some of it is meeting the right mentor...but most had some inflection point.

There's no denying that these uber-successful people are incredibly smart, driven people. But there's also a "right-place, right-time" component". In Rosenstein's case...he grew up in the Bay Area and was in his early-20's at the height of the boom...getting in on the ground floor at Google. The young-adult with the same intelligence in Houston is likely a O&G engineer.