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Shark Tank host Mark Cuban quipped that one of the motivating factors for Meta Platforms Inc.’s co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to create Facebook was that he was “just trying to get laid.” What Happened: Cuban made the lighthearted remark on the Lex Fridman Podcast, while revealing the secrets to becoming a billionaire. Zuckerberg, who has been writing code since middle school, came up with the idea to create a website that hosted photos of his fellow college mates at Harvard University. Initially called “Facemash,” the idea was that website visitors had to choose who was “hotter” among tw…