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This Indian-Origin Man Sued Mark Zuckerberg For Stealing His Idea, Got Millions In Settlement
Divya Narendra was the first person to think of a social network to connect fellow Harvard students, an idea that he says was "stolen" by Mark Zuckerberg to create Facebook.
“You stole our idea” – the words echoed at a distance but caught his attention as he was busy drawing doodles on a note pad. He was physically there, but seemed pensive, elsewhere. His thoughts were back at his makeshift office at Harvard, where a tiny team working out of his dorm room in Kirkland House was busy writing endless pages of code. A code that set up a company worth tens of billions of dollars today – one that keeps us all hooked on to our phones – Facebook.