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"  He may flake out, but Zuckerberg has probably already lasted too long for that. And few have accomplished so much so young. Well, one has. Every day that the 24-year-old remains at the head of his rapidly growing company -- resisting buyout offers and outpacing competitors -- his affinities to the young Bill Gates grow. They already share a few likenesses.      BILL GATES     VS.     MARK ZUCKERBERG     At age 17, develops class-scheduling program to place himself in course with attractive girls.  Early flashes of brilliance  At age 14, develops computer version of the board game Risk to place himself at the helm of civilization.    Prelaw Social sciences major at Harvard  Psychology   3 Years before dropping out  2   Poker Blood sport  Fencing   Two Dartmouth profs, who developed the programming language that indirectly gave rise to Microsoft.  (May have) lifted initial idea from  Four Harvard classmates, who claim he stole the idea from their houseSystem and ConnectU sites.    Justice Department; Open Source  Nemeses MySpace; Open networks    1976 (age 21)  Business born  2004 (age 19)    1980; Contracts with IBM to develop software for the PC.  Watershed deal  $900 million offer from Yahoo!; Microsoft advertising deal.    Requires manufacturers to add Internet Explorer to their hardware in exchange for Windows 95 license, launching antitrust investigation.  Shitstorm Launches privacy-shattering &amp;quot;News Feed&amp;quot; feature that alerts users to changes friends make to their profiles.    Microsoft owns 1.6 percent of Facebook.  Cross-pollination Facebook has exclusive advertising deal with Microsoft.    $237 billion  Market value of company  $5 to $15 billion-plus (estimate)    World&amp;#039;s richest man for 13 consecutive years (1994-2006).  Forbes superlative  World&amp;#039;s youngest billionaire ($1.5 billion).    Finding cures for 20 leading fatal diseases; improving American education.  Likely to spend the next decade...  Translating the site for international growth; inching closer to replacing Google as the king of platforms.    ***** To see a slideshow of the 75 most important people of the 21st Century, please click here. To see the archive of the 75 most important people of the 21st Century, please click here. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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