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This Facebook co-founder learned to code in 2 days

This Facebook co-founder learned to code in 2 days agine spending a few days to learn a new programming language which would later turn you into a billionaire. Back in 2005, when Facebook was a tiny startup with 50 people, CEO  Mark Zuckerberg  was invited to give a lecture at his old school Harvard. He was such a relative nobody at that time that hardly anybody showed up to hear him. But the lecture was posted a couple of years ago on YouTube and it's kind of fun to listen to it now, with 20/20 hindsight. In 2005, Facebook was making some waves in its world. It was a social network for college students that had spread to 2,000 schools and was generating around 400 million page views a day, Zuckerberg told the audience. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has one rule for hiring That was, he estimated, more page views than Google was doing back then. (Remember in 2005, Yahoo was still a big deal for searching the 'net and was considered one of the huge successful interne