Meet Mark Zuckerberg’s college roommate. He’s an Olympian-turned-VC exec who now invests in your favorite celebrity businesses

When Samyr Lainé walked into his freshman dorm room at Harvard University in 2002, he found his new roommate tucked away in the corner of their room, typing away on his computer. 

A year and a half later, that roommate sent him a project he was working on called TheFacebook. 

“You could tell where his skill set was as a coder and as a thinker, and he was just supremely advanced,” Lainé said of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “He was taking senior-level courses as a freshman and showing up to a three-hour final exam...