If he wasn&#x27;t a billionaire and didn&#x27;t behave like a rich kid buying himself the hottest toys I would use a different phrase.<p>Why can&#x27;t Zuck actually compete with Snapchat, WhatsApp, or Oculus? His response to competition is to spend $30 billion buying these companies instead of actually contributing something new in the world himself.<p>Zuckerberg, Chris Dixon, and Andresssen Horowitz dismissed Oculus. Many thousands of regular people could see that Oculus was special but these Titans of Silicon Valley believed &quot;bad intel&quot; about <i>Microsoft</i> (of all companies) having something better. Better than what John $#U*%# Carmack had chosen to work on!<p>Such are the brave risk takers of Silicon Valley.