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Mark Zuckerberg

It’s a creator.He is only 26.

• Born on May 14, 1984 in White Plains, New York to Edward and Karen Zuckerberg

• Grew up in Dobbs Ferry, New York

• Jewish family• His dad is a dentist and his

mom is a doctor

Education & Social Life

• Zuckerberg started his high school

education at Ardsley High School in

Ardsley, New York, but he found that

this school wasn’t challenging him

enough so he transferred to Phillips

Exeter Academy, a boarding school in

Exeter, New Hampshire

• After graduating high school, he

attended Harvard University but

dropped out after his sophomore year

• Started programming in middle school and he was very interested in creating communication programs and games

• Created a communication program to help the workers in his dad’s office and a computer version of the game Risk

• He also created a music program called Synapse which used artificial intelligence to learn about the user’s listening habits

• Because of Synapse, Microsoft and AOL tried to recruit Zuckerberg and buy his program but he decided to go to Harvard instead

• While at Harvard he joined the jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi and was known for reciting lines from epic poems such as The Illiad

Where did the name

come from?

These facebooks were a very common thing among most colleges and prep schools

An actual facebook is a student directory that is published by a school every year with pictures of all students faculty and staff

How it began andbumps along the way

• On October 28, 2003 Zuckerberg was blogging about a girl who had dumped him when he got the idea to create Facemash

• Facemash was a Harvard version of Hot or Not. It compared two people and the users voted on which one was “hotter”

• Zuckerberg hacked into Harvard’s computer network to obtain the pictures of students from the different dorm’s online facebooks

• The site was shut down a few days later by the Harvard administration and Zuckerberg faced expulsion but the charges were dropped

• Later that semester he expanded on his initial site by uploading images for an art history final and allowing comments on the images so the students could share their notes. The professor said it had the best grades of any final he had ever given

History #2• Inspired by an article in The Harvard Crimson about the Facemash incident,

Zuckerberg started writing code for a new site

• On February 4, 2004 he launched thefacebook.com

• Within 24 hours the site had between 12 and 15 hundred members

• Membership was originally restricted to Harvard students but gradually expanded to most colleges in the US and Canada

• In 2004 the company incorporated and moved to Palo Alto, California. Sean Parker, who had been advising Zuckerberg became the company’s president

• The company bought the domain name facebook for $200,000 in 2005 dropping the the from the name

History #3• On September 26, 2006 Facebook opened to everyone over the age of

13 with a valid e-mail address• Soon after facebook was first created, three Harvard seniors accused

Zuckerberg of stealing their idea for the site. Their site was going to be called HarvardConnection.com.

• Zuckerberg had originally planned to help them with their site but he already had facebook in the works when they wanted him to make HarvardConnection

• A few month after thefacebook.com was launched they launched their site which they called ConnectU instead of HarvardConnection

• In September 2004 ConnectU sued Zuckerberg for allegedly stealing their idea. In February 2008 they agreed to settle the suit but in June of the same year ConnectU appealed the settlement accusing facebook of trading its stock without disclosing material information. This appeal is ongoing.

What type of business isFacebook?

Facebook is a privately owned and operated social network site owned by Facebook Incorporated.

Facebook’s MissionZuckerberg created Facebook as a way for people to share information and access information. If they have the ability to do this they are able to connect more with the people around them and understand more of what is going on in their world.

The Financial Side

• The very first investor in Facebook was technically Zuckerberg’s friend from Harvard, Eduardo Saverin. He ivested $15,000 to pay for the first Servers

• Although Saverin was the really the first, the person who gets the most credit for being the first investor is Peter Theil, former PayPal CEO, who invested $500,000 in June 2004

Zuckerberg Today

• Zuckerberg has a net worth of $5,6 billion

• He is the youngest billionaire in the world at the age of 26

• 212 richest person on the Forbes richest people list

Interesting Facts

• Microsoft wanted to invest in Facebook but was originally turned down. Now they own 1.6% of the company’s shares

• Facebook has over 500 full time employees and is worth about $15 billion

• On November 30, 2007 the 11th richest man in the world, Li Ka-shing, invested $60 million dollars in the company

• There are over 500 million registered users on Facebook• Over 1 billion photos and 10 million videos are uploaded to

Facebook each month• The age group that uses Facebook the most is 35-45 years

People love it. People love him for it.

It’s main cause of SUCCESS.