Seeing Mark Zuckerberg multibillionarie. I am poor af (Still student btw). Also looking Linux kernel at GitHub.

I also felt exactly after seeing the kernel code!

Iam like "who would do such great things for free!?"

Well, when you scam people and sell their personal info, you tend to make a lot of money.

Especially when it's bundled in a new trend like social media was at the time.

Genius? Not really.
Just a clever con artist with the right idea at the right time.