I think that most successful businesses are started by people similar to Mark Zuckerberg. That doesn't make them, or him, bad people, just people with strong goals and strong personalities. The "Greed is Good" concept does apply here, since entrepreneurs are what keep our economy alive. They are the ones that create successful businesses that employ people, and keep the flow of money in constant circulation. Mr. Zuckerberg is simply getting this negative image attached to him because his company, Facebook, is widely known and used- definitely a 'revolution', so he is being thrown into the spotlight.
Society wants to see popular, successful people as perfect beings. They just need to understand that no one is perfect, and people like Mark Zuckerberg are just like them and may make less than desirable decisions sometimes. I think it also has to do with jealousy; people are jealous of someone who is more successful than them and make more money, so they want to find something to use against him to make him less than great. This is also probably why he's been sued so often: people want his money, so they come up with excuses why they should have it. His recent philanthropy shows he is not in this just for the money, and that he genuinely wants to change (or 'revolutionize') the way the world communicates.
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