Just another Face(book) in the crowd

He may be one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world, but the founder of a major social networking site managed to recently travel around Dublin more or less innocuously.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was in town to meet with staff at the organization's European headquarters in the city. The 27-year-old, estimated to be worth just under 9.5 billion euro, discarded the trappings of his enormous wealth and took to the pavements to get around like any other tourist in the Irish capital.

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But he was followed at all times by a security team who kept a discreet distance behind the young billionaire during his stroll. Just days after President Barack Obama shut down the center of the city for his speech on College Green, the young entrepreneur barely raised an eyebrow. He had arrived in Dublin to visit staff at Facebook's base on Hanover Quay.

 

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