Profits be dammed
Profits be dammed
Perhaps this is why we shouldn't make 28-year-olds CEOs. Zuckerberg has said again and again that profits aren't his first goal. He's on a social mission. That's fine for a private company. But once you take public investors' money you need make sure you spend it to boost the bottom line.


BY Stephen Gandel @FortuneMagazine - Last updated May 22 2012: 2:12 PM ET
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