With a glint in his eye, Mahmoud, who's barely out of school himself, says "some ladies keep coming back until their 30s".

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But this is a guy so sure of himself that he walked away from a million-dollar payday when he was barely out of high school, who turned down a billion-dollar offer for Facebook from Yahoo!

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