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Oct 2019
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Facebook vs Snapchat - Children of Privi...

Wondery
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It's the new millennium and Mark Zuckerberg is bored in high school. He's a prodigious student so smart he's already taking graduate level coding classes at Mercy College. Soon, he's going to build a product that will change the Internet forever. Now he just has to graduate high school.Evan Spiegel, meanwhile, grows up rich and spoiled. He parties his way th ... Show More
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