Dorm-room excuse
What does the phrase "dorm-room excuse" in the passage below mean?
Mr Zuckerberg told Congress that any firm that has grown at the speed of Facebook was bound to make mistakes. But the dorm-room excuse is wearing thin.
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It is an excuse given by someone who lives in a dorm room, that is, a naive student.
- It is an excuse given by someone who lives in a dorm room, that is, a naive student.
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It is an excuse given by someone who lives in a dorm room, that is, a naive student.
0Zuckerberg told Congress that he had started Facebook in his dorm-room. It was obviously a very small operation. At that time he couldn't possibly have predicted and guarded against whatever troubles were to come much later once the system grew to its current enormous size.
I believe that this explanation given by Zuckerberg is what is being referred to as the dorm-room excuse.
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