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>> i went to sleep shortly after that. >> i took a nap for 30 minutes this afternoon. >> you only slept 30 minutes? >> come on. >> i slept in the stair well. >> oh, my got. >> it was fine. >> i generally don't sleep during hack-a-thons. >> do you start getting increasingly more nervous as the clock ticks? >> if you are not getting through a certain problem, you will feel more pressure and like the world is closing in. >> these kids have been staring at security screens for 24-hours and they are starting to develop interesting projects. >> you just came up with this idea here? >> yeah. >> serio...

Tech savants in the california bay area, you can check out the latest hack-a-thon and drop by an accelerator program or visit a controversial new learning institution in downtown san francisco. this is make school a radical alternative to college, a two-year program with 33 students. they ra are really, really smart. some of them have turned out of places like mit and harvard to be here. who would create an institution like this? a 23-year-old college dropout, of course. >> they are passionate about building apps and we are giving them a shortened focused university experience that will let th...

Myspace, which used to have more viewers than anybody else. when you really drill into it, you find so much of that was a failure to listen to the customer and innovate, unlike what mark zuckerberg did with hack-a-thons at night. we were study dg and looking at a company in china, started by two brothers from a very poor area of rural china, and they're a competitor to walmart in the food area. they separated their company into red and green stores. the red ones are the core. they want to bring the freshest food to the chinese mother. but the green ones are run by somebody else, and they're tr...

Facebook and how it took over y myspace, which used to have more viewers than anybody else. when you really drill into it, you find so much of that was a failure to listen to the customer and innovate, unlike what mark zuckerberg did with hack-a-thons at night. we were studying a company in china started by two brothers from a very poor area of rural china, and they're a competitor to walmart in the food area. they separated their company into red and green stores. the red ones are the core. they want to bring the freshest food to the chinese mother. but the green ones are run by somebody else...

Well. >> first of all, the institutions have gotten there first. we're getting their sloppy seconds. >> zuckerberg will remain facebook's largest shareholder with his stake in the company worth nearly $20 billion. in high-tech fashion, he'll ring in the opening bell on nasdaq remotely from facebook's california headquarters. >> what a wonderful day it must be in the facebook office. they are having one of their all-night hack-a-thons tonight to mark the occasion. they came out with a list, all the big wigs what they'll be worth after today. the poorest on the list will make $400 million today....