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Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, (FB) strode out of a waiting room to take the stage late Monday, surrounded by a cluster of handlers and camera crews. He was the keynote attraction on the first day of the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona. He strutted with confidence, chest out, as the media scrambled to get a shot. It was a brief moment, out of sight of most of the attendees who were queueing up to hear him a short distance away.

But it seemed to me emblematic of how Zuckerberg maintains his forward momentum while people struggle to figure out his plans for world domination.

Onstage, in a Q&A format, Zuckerberg, who is a new father to a three-month-old girl, talked about the little lessons of giving his daughter a bath, and was clearly delighted even though he seems still unaccustomed to being forced to sum up the lessons of every experience.

The standing room only crowd left some curious observers outside the hall watching Zuckerberg talking about his daughter on video monitors.

The main point of discussion at this telecom trade show, of course, was the recent set back in India, where Zuckerberg's "Free Basics" program to give away limited Internet access was struck down by the government.

Zuckerberg started off in command of the discussion, then stumbled slightly, whether by nervousness or enthusiasm or simply the rush of ideas that tend to take his speech rushing forward to keep up with his mind and his ambition.

"It's hard to think up here," he complained at one point, a tad rattled by the heat, and sweating bullets.

But Zuckerberg regained his composure and his stride.

"It's kind of crazy we are sitting here in 2016 and four billion people in the world don't have access to the Internet," said Zuckerberg, then repeating that "Facebook's mission is to connect everyone in the world."

He then launched into a rapid-fire discourse about how Facebook has "all these programs" to get people connected, of which Free Basics is just one. There are drones the company is testing, as big as a 747 but weighing no more than a car, that will hover for six months at a time, beaming down Internet access. The company is at work on satellites. "And we're testing out laser," he said. That approach is not unlike other uses of laser, but offers "a much higher bandwidth signal as long as you get a straight shot." He said the challenge was akin to "Shooting a laser pointer from California to try and hit a quarter on the top of the Statue of Liberty in NY."

Pressed on the matter of India, and what Facebook got wrong, Zuckerberg twice resorted to the vague statement that "What we've learned is that every country is different." Free basics is available in 38 countries. It was a "disappointment," he confessed, and a "setback," but "this isn't a company that hits a roadblock and gives up," insisted Zuckerberg. "We've had a lot of things hit us in our history so far, and we learned from them."

Asked why he thought people seem to sometimes presume mal intent on Facebook's part, Zuckerberg said, "I guess some people don't believe that a company can be about than just making money."