Mark Zuckerberg was once on CNN list of '10 People Who Don't Matter'

Mark Zuckerberg was once on CNN list of '10 People Who Don't Matter'

PanARMENIAN.Net - Mark Zuckerberg wasn't always the billionaire Internet mogul we know today. In 2006, just two years after Facebook's creator, Zuck was just another 20-something trying to make his way in the world wearing a hoodie.

CNN's Business 2.0, a magazine that once lived as part of CNN Money, vastly underestimated his potential all those years ago, listing him as No. 10 on the list of "10 People Who Don't Matter." The site wrote off Zuckerberg's "online social directory for college students" as a passing fad.

Accoridng to Mashable,the piece also heralded MySpace as the most important player in the social media game, calling the network the "80-million-user gorilla" whose success Facebook was simply chasing.

The list keyed in on those who the site's writers felt had passed their peaks, whose influences had waned, or whose true importance they felt was overstated.

"As respected as they might be for their past achievements, their best days are behind them," the article stated.

In July 2014, Bloomberg Billionaire's Index reported that Zuckerberg was richer than Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Forbes cited Zuckerberg's net worth as $34 billion in September.

The piece also dismissed Netflix as a passing fad, failing to predict that it would become the drug of choice for binge-watchers everywhere. Citing the decline of the DVD, Business 2.0 did not foresee the profitable pivot into on-demand watching. CEO Reed Hastings, one of CNN's other "nobodies," entered the billionaires club in June.

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