Mark Zuckerberg turns 28 years old today. He gets a belated present on Friday, when Facebook’s shares will be floated at a value of around $100 billion. Mark’s shares will be worth about $24 billion. Yet most of the media stories last week seem to be about his hoodie… What were other well-known entrepreneurs doing (and wearing) when they were 28 years old?

When Richard Branson was 28 years old, in 1978, he was working with Mike Oldfield (remember Tubular Bells?) and the Sex Pistols. He had started Virgin Records, but it was still another 6 years before he launched Virgin Atlantic, and another 14 years before he turned success into cash with the sale of the Virgin label to EMI (For £500 million). That’s him next to Mike Oldfield, in the black and white photo with the sparkly black jumper.

Bill Gates reached 28 years old in 1983. That’s just 2 years after launching Microsoft in Washington with the IBM contract for MS-DOS. It was the very early days, still 2 years before the launch of Windows, and 3 years before Microsoft had its IPO (It was worth $780 million when it listed, and Gates was worth $350 million at that point. That means Microsoft was worth less than 1% of Facebook’s market value at time of listing). At 28, Gates hadn’t hit millionaire status, and yes, that’s him striking a pose on the PC in his white jumper and grey slacks in 1983…

Steve Jobs also reached 28 years old in 1983. It was the year he launched the Macintosh. Apple had its IPO in 1980, and was worth $1.7 billion when it listed. Steve was worth $250 million at 28, but within 2 years he was thrown out of Apple, and he ended up spending most of his first fortune over the next 10 years on his new start-ups, NeXT and Pixar. It was 14 years before he returned to Apple at the age of 42. As you can see from the photo of Steve in his zen pose with his new Macintosh, he had already adopted his uniform of black turtleneck and blue jeans at 28.

Mark reaches 28 years old with 100 times the wealth his predecessors had at his age. It’s a sign of the times – from the multiplier effect of a virtual world that’s grown to 2 billion online, the money in the markets, and the decline of the dollar. Yet he reaches 28 with the same number of years as the others to refine his fashion statement. So I’d say wearing a hoodie to Wall Street is an improvement on a black sparkly jumper. Or striking a pose ala young Bill Gates on a PC…

Holy cow, the dude’s only 28 years old!

Given that the other three still had all their greatest achievements ahead of them at 28, it’s going to be fun to see what Mark gets up to in the years ahead. And as we’re all here on Facebook, we’ll all be part of the ride. Happy Birthday, Mark!

Di dunia ini ada beberapa jenis manusia spt ini : 

1. setiap hari cerita ke orang lain betapa pintarnya dirinya, dan ide2 cermelang dirinya
2. setiap hari menganggap dirinya sudah cukup kaya, dan tidak perlu bekerja lebih keras
3. setiap hari berpikir dirinya adalah orang suci, ga kaya tapi pasti masuk surga
4. setiap hari bercerita ttg usaha2 yg akan dilakukannya untuk mencapai kesuksesan…
5. setiap hari baca buku motivasi, nonton video motivasi dan borong semua tiket seminar .

Tetapi ironisnya, ke 5 orang tsb tidak pernah sukses, karena mereka duduk, berpikir, berbicara, but NEVER ACTION ! dan untuk berhasil positive action harus dilakukan berulang – ulang hingga menjadi habits atau kebiasaan …

Alkisah ada seorang pemuda intelek, dia datang dari ibukota, lulusan terbaik ditempatnya, ketika tiba di sebuah desa nelayan, dia melihat bagaimana para nelayan sedang mempersiapkan jala untuk melaut malam hari itu ..

Dalam hati kecilnya dia pun berpikir alangkah bodohnya orang2 tsb, bila ingin mendapatkan ikan yg banyak mereka seharusnya bekerja sama, menggabungkan beberapa perahu2 nelayan kecil, menggunakan jala yg lebih besar … dan saling berkoordinasi …

Maka dia pun menemui pimpinan nelayan disana, dia menjelaskan ide2 briliannya, dia menceritakan bagaimana Jepang melaut dengan kapal2 berteknologi dan menangkap ikan dalan jumlah yg berton – ton banyaknya …

Orang desa pun percaya dengan dirinya … dan mereka pun menggabungkan kapal2 tersebut dan membuat jala yang lebih besar … singkat cerita merekapun pergi melaut malam berikutnya …

Siapa sangka, ketika datang ombak besar, kapal besar justru menimbulkan hambatan yg lebih besar dan kapalpun rusak dan tenggelam … dengan sigapnya para nelayan langsung menceburkan diri ke air dan berenang ke permukaan …

Setelah tak berapa lama mereka semua selamat, mereka mencari pemuda intelek tsb dan tidak bisa menemukannya … ternyata dia hanyut krn tidak bisa berenang …

Yang kita pelajari dari kisah sederhana ini : 
Banyak orang suka mengajari orang lain, namun lupa kekurangan dirinya ( ga bisa berenang ). Akibatnya seluruh kapal bisa tenggelam ( perusahaan bisa hancur ), karena dipimpin dengan sembrono.

I always wonder why people are working so hard and dream to become a boss … Maybe lot of people think boss is somebody seating without working with big pocket of money…

Being boss actually is holding big responsibility for every mistake taken by our team, and for more to add, being boss mean you do something or a lot of thing that keep unseen and un spoken of …

even people are knowing you do something brilliant, usually your team will not giving out anything to you even a simple admiration … because people use to think, hmm… he is the boss, what he need anymore ? he own everything …

But when you do something wrong, all the talking will come at once … because people will think, hmm he is the boss, he should take all the responsibility …

Being boss actually is much more the same with all the people, we need support and admiration … because human need to be actualize himself …

That’s why lot of leader at the end become a public speaker / trainer or doing something good at the charity … this is the fact that we must know …

For all this year become no.1 at the top, doesnt mean we dont have any problem …

But for real, my only power always come from 2 sources …

1. my mother, that keep me inspired.
2. my love, that keep me awake and fight.

So if people are said : “dibalik setiap pria sukses pasti ada wanita hebat” …

I truly believe on it …

So people before you have everything, you need to find the one first …