Some people feel very strongly that Zuckerberg stole it.
That would fit right in with the class envy that is ubiquitous here. However, there are a bunch of guys who wrote the code that Zuckerburg used to launch facebook.
However, there are a bunch of guys who wrote the code that Zuckerburg used to launch facebook.
The filmic version attributes the idea for Facebook to a pair of Harvard rowing-team members (Brahmin brothers and legacies) and a lot of the elbow grease, as you say, to others whom Zuckerberg self-dealt out of the payoff, all of whom wound up suing Zuckerberg after their shares were diluted by his repeated financial refreshments of the original investment.
Or so the film version has it. Interesting the faces the filmmakers put in the picture, though.