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What Mark Zuckerberg Could’ve Bought With $1 Billion

• Instagram 
• The entire New York Times, says Reuters’ Jack Shafer
• The ability to buy out New York Times CEO Janet Robinson 42 times
• 800 of AOL’s Microsoft’s patents
• Roughly 1,250 GSA West Coast Conferences
• Shell’s Debt on Iranian Oil
• The cure for Lou Gehrig’s disease
• Solo Cups (the company) 
• The amount BP has pledged toward Gulf Restoration
• A better 911 program in New York City
• Soccer team Real Madrid’s Island in the UAE
• The winnings of every Powerball jackpot in 2007
• 45% of a B-2 Bomber
• 68 Lebron Jameses , 40 Kobe Bryants, and 83 Albert Pujolses
• All of J.Lo’s love (it’s gratis!)