The guy lucked into a money making machine that was nigh impossible to screw up. Hasn’t done much since except do the obvious when you have a mountain of cash — buy competitors.

It's odd when people think that Zuckerberg is some sort of genius for creating a cleaner looking clone of MySpace.

How did that work out for MySpace, Google+, Friendster, etc?

Lol.. such a foolish comment. He didn't luck into anything. He stole it and made it into what it is today. Remember the login to your email and we'll send invites to everyone? Facebook invented that. Keep it restricted to .edu and rolling out school by school was a strategy. Identify companies who are a threat and buy them.. facebook was very successful at that.

Luck had very little to do with facebook's success.

Luck had everything to do with it. FB was no different than Six Degrees, or Friendster, or Orkut, let alone MySpace.

Identifying threats? Please. EVERYONE knows who the threats to FB were and are. It’s just that not all of us has the money to buy them.

Mark Zuckerberg is average.

His one big “innovation” is taking legs out of Second Life.

Why did none of those succeed then? You are basically defeating your own argument.