Published April 22, 2021, 5:10 PM
If nerditude can make you a billionaire at age 23, who cares about being uncool and unpopular? A NERKLE, A NERD, AND A SEERSUCKER TOO Dr. Seuss’ signature illustration on the cover of ‘If I Ran the Zoo,’ the book credited for the first modern English use of the word ‘nerd’ on print
A lot has changed since Mark Zuckerberg became a billionaire at age 23.
In 2016, as he posted about his dream to make an AI robot to run his household and help with his work, a fan commented with lavish praise and said, “I keep telling my granddaughters to date the nerd in school, he may turn out to be a Mark Zuckerberg!” He was cool about it. In response, he told the commenter to encourage her granddaughters to be nerds themselves, so they need not look for a Mark Zuckerberg.