Mark Eliot Zuckerberg(English Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, in English transcription Zuckerberg) - American entrepreneur in the field of Internet technologies, one of the developers and founders social network Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg today is the CEO of Facebook Inc, a billionaire, his fortune for 2017 exceeded $ 74 billion.
Childhood and education of Mark Zuckerberg
Father - Edward Zuckerberg- a practicing dentist. He did not leave his career as a doctor even after his son became a billionaire.
Mother - Karen Zuckerberg- psychiatrist.
The Zuckerberg family has four children. Mark - the only boy - was the second child. Mark's sisters - Randy, Donna, Ariel.
In the photo: Mark Zuckerberg with his sisters (Photo: instagram.com/zuck)
The biographies say that the parents immediately noticed the great abilities of Mark Zuckerberg. But he was brought up in religious severity, as was customary in Jewish families. But, apparently, something did not work out with religion, because now Mark openly tells everyone that he is an atheist.
Edward Zuckerberg gave his son the first PC (Quantex 486DX based on Intel processor 486) when Mark was 10 years old. Edward Zuckerberg had plans to give Mark a good education. He was the first to teach his son the Atari BASIC programming language.
Mark spent hours at the computer. His friends brought their primitive drawings, and Mark Zuckerberg based on them created the first computer games... According to the writer Jose Antonio Vargas when "some kids played computer games, Mark created them."
As a schoolboy, Mark Zuckerberg created an unpretentious, but quite acceptable software product "ZuckNet". Mark's father was delighted with his son's creation and installed "ZuckNet" in his office, being able to communicate with his assistant from home. Zuckerberg's ZuckNet is considered the "primitive" version of AOL's Instant Messenger, which came out the following year.
In the photo: young Mark Zuckerberg at the computer
And little Zuckerberg came up with a computer version of the then popular game "Risk".
Edward Zuckerberg hired a private tutor for his son, who immediately realized that it was already quite difficult to stay ahead of the knowledge of this prodigy Zuckerberg Jr., who was clearly waiting for a career as an excellent programmer.
Mark Zuckerberg began his education at Ardsley School, then moved to the private school Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. There Mark was the first student in mathematics, astronomy, physics, natural sciences, foreign languages- there was time for all this. When he entered college, Mark Zuckerberg indicated that he was fluent in French, Hebrew, Latin, and Ancient Greek. Mark's friends recalled how easily he could quote passages from the Iliad in the original. In addition, Mark was actively involved in fencing, excelled in the sport and was the captain of the school fencing team.
And yet, in the first place, Mark Zuckerberg had programming. His abilities, which are now evident in development software, attracted attention. While still receiving secondary education, Mark Zuckerberg developed music player Synapse that combined elements artificial intelligence.
Career programmer Mark Zuckerberg
After graduating from school, Mark Zuckerberg entered the prestigious Harvard University, choosing, on the advice of his mother, a specialty - psychology. But programming continued to fascinate Mark. While still in his second year of university, he created a program for students, CourseMatch, which helped students at the beginning of each semester in choosing the courses they would like to study. With CourseMatch, they could see the number of students enrolled in a particular course and a list of names who had already signed up for it, allowing them to make an informed choice. Zuckerberg's second project was Facemash, which played a major role in Mark's biography.
Photo (left): the beginning of Mark Zuckerberg's studies at Harvard University. In the photo (right): receiving academic degree at Harvard University (Photo: AP / TASS)
The talented young man decided on the basis of the Facemash software to create a communication masterpiece in the form of the social network "Facebook", which was supposed to expand the communication of Harvard students on local network... Fellow students helped him in this. Chris Hughes, Eduardo Saverin and Dustin Mokowitz... As friends recall, Mark did all this for fun.
In the photo: Mark Zuckerberg with other co-founders of the world's largest social network Facebook: Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskowitz
By the way, Mark Zuckerberg had the idea for Facebook when he was getting his secondary education at the private school Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. This school had its own Facebook or "face book", a directory with names, addresses and photos of students. At Harvard, Zuckerberg took the initiative to create a similar network resource, but he was refused, citing a privacy policy. I had to create Facebook for the whole world at once.
But first, after Zuckerberg hacked into protected sections of the Harvard University computer network and copied private photos, the site was closed by the administration and Mark was accused of violating security, copyright, immunity privacy... Zuckerberg had to apologize.
Career at Facebook
However, he appreciated the scale of the idea and already on February 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched Thefacebook at thefacebook.com. Zuckerberg left Harvard, and all the money saved by his parents (85 thousand dollars) invested in the social network - in it he saw the best career path. In 2004, after moving to Palo Alto, Zuckerberg registered his project as a legal entity, becoming director general"Facebook".
Zuckerberg, Moskowitz and other friends moved to Palo Alto, Silicon Valley, where they rented a small house that served as an office. Initially, they thought to return to Harvard, but the work dragged on.
At this stage, among Zuckerberg's friends, a role in the successful development of a career was played by Sean Parker who found the first Facebook investors - the founder of the PayPal system Peter Thiel and Reed Hoffman... Parker achieved that Mark Zuckerberg retained 3 out of 5 seats on the board of directors.
In 2005, Mark Zuckerberg acquired the Facebook.com domain for 200 thousand dollars, managed to get rid of article The... Then the social network had more than 5 million users.
Photo: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (Photo: DPA / TASS)
Finally, in 2007, Microsoft valued Mark Zuckerberg's project at $ 15 billion and acquired 1.6% of the company's shares for $ 240 million. Further, the career of Zuckerberg and his brainchild only gained momentum.
In 2012, Mark Zuckerberg visited Russia. The billionaire took part in two programs on Channel One and spoke to the students of Moscow State University. At the Facebook World Hack developer conference in Moscow, Zuckerberg named the main advantage for developers - access to an audience of almost a billion people, which is the maximum number of users on the Internet.
In the photo: the founder and CEO of the social network Facebook Mark Zuckerberg walking along Red Square (Photo: Facebook / TASS press service)
In 2015, "Facebook" became the second most visited website in the world, the number of social network users reached one and a half billion people.
And Mark Zuckerberg turned out to be the youngest dollar billionaire with an official salary of ... $ 1. Also, the programmer won the "titles" of one of the most influential people on the planet and the most successful businessman under the age of 40.
In the fall of 2018, Free Press wrote that Mark Zuckerberg might lose his Facebook post. In the news, it was reported that the idea was put forward by Facebook investors back in June, and then some investment funds that own shares of the company opposed Mark.
Personal life of Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook social network founder Mark Zuckerberg, one of richest people the world, in his personal life he is an absolute monogamous - since his student days he has been dating an old friend Priscilla Chan.
Photo: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan (Photo: AP / TASS)
Priscilla Chan was born on February 24, 1985. Her parents were Chinese refugees who fled Vietnam by boat. Zuckerberg's wife is a pediatrician by training. Born and raised in Massachusetts, she attended Harvard University and received her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Sophomore Mark Zuckerberg met his future wife at a fraternity party at Harvard. Since 2003, Mark and Priscilla began dating. In 2010 year future wife moved to Zuckerberg in Palo Alto.
On May 19, 2012, Mark Zuckerberg married Priscilla Chan. The couple threw a celebration for Priscilla's receiving doctoral degree in medicine, however, when close friends and family members showed up in the backyard of the youngsters' home in Palo Alto, they were told they were attending a wedding. As a representative of the couple said, the wedding was not timed to coincide with Facebook's IPO, but rather to the end of Priscilla's training.
On December 2, 2015, the couple had a daughter, Maxima Chan (Max), and on August 28, 2017, the second, who was named August.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took maternity leave in connection with the birth of his second daughter.
In the photo: Mark Zuckerberg with his wife and daughters (Photo: instagram.com/zuck)
“I’ll spend one month of vacation with my wife and girls, and then we’ll spend a whole month together in December,” he wrote on his Facebook page. At the end of his message, Zuckerberg joked that he hoped that when he returned, his office would "stand still."
Mark Zuckerberg did the same after the birth of his first daughter. Zuckerberg explained this decision by the results of studies, according to which the temporary departure of parents from work after the birth of a child has a positive effect on the family as a whole.
Zuckerberg's wife is a Buddhist, Mark himself over the years became a less zealous atheist, in particular, noted the importance of religion, including Buddhism.
Mark Zuckerberg's earnings
Mark Zuckerberg's fortune as of February 2016 Forbes versions amounted to almost 50 billion dollars. And by the end of 2017, revenues from Facebook made Mark even richer, as of November 2017, Zuckerberg's fortune is estimated at $ 74.2 billion. He is one of the five richest people in the world.
Pictured: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (Photo: AP / TASS)
Mark Zuckerberg known all over the world as the creator of the very first social network Facebook and as a successful entrepreneur, whose fortune is estimated at several tens of billions of dollars. Despite his young age - 33 years old, the biography of Mark Zuckerberg is already full of interesting events and facts.
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Biography
M ark Elliot Zuckerberg ( Mark elliot zuckerberg) was born in small town White Plains, located near New York, May 14, 1984 in a Jewish medical family. His mother, Karen Zuckerberg, is a psychiatrist, and his father, Edward Zuckerberg, is a dentist. In addition to Mark, they have three more children: daughters Ariel, Randy and Donna.
Since high school, Zuckerberg began to engage in programming, but this was not his only hobby. He also took lessons in fencing, mathematics and several languages. Having finished primary classes, Zuckerberg transferred to an elite school " Phillips Exeter Academy“Where the bias towards programming was made. At the age of 12, he created his first program “ ZuckNet“, Which is a local chat in which his family members could communicate with each other. And for graduation work on last year schooling Mark has developed an Internet application “ Synapse“That recognized people's musical preferences. The project turned out to be successful, and Microsoft even wanted to buy it for $ 2 million and hire him, but the graduate refused this offer.
Having entered the Faculty of Psychology at Harvard University in 2002, the future billionaire continued to study various programming languages, and over time, together with a team of other students, which included Dustin Moskowitz and Chris Hughes, begins to develop. Mark was so fascinated by the future social network that he dropped out of university and completely focused on his creation, and until now he is actively engaged in improving it.
12 years later, Mark Zuckerberg still received a Harvard diploma.
In 2004, Zuckerberg launched the first version of the social network Facebook, which immediately became popular among Internet users.
Mark Zuckerberg's wife
Mark Zuckerberg with Priscilla Chan
Zuckerberg married on May 19, 2012 to Priscilla Chan, whom he met while studying at Harvard. Interestingly, initially all the guests were invited to a party to celebrate Priscilla's medical education. Arriving at the private house where the couple lived, they learned that, in fact, the wedding ceremony will take place now. Also, according to Wikipedia, it was on this day that Facebook went public, and the billionaire sold part of the shares of the social network.
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife do not like to appear in public, spending most of their time in their house. The family also donates a large amount of funds to charity. Last year, Mark and Priscilla started their own foundation, which funds the development of drugs for various diseases. Until 2026, the organization will provide a total of approximately $ 3 billion.
The couple had their first daughter on December 2, 2015, who was named Maxine, and two years later on 28 August at married couple another daughter appeared - August.
Mark Zuckerberg with his wife
Mark Zuckerberg regularly on his instagram (https://www.instagram.com/zuck/) publishes photos of how his family spends time: walking, celebrating holidays or doing various things in his private house.
Mark Zuckerberg's fortune
Mark Zuckerberg's fortune at the moment is estimated approximately $ 70 billion... It's not hard to guess that almost all of his business is based on.
Zuckerberg earned his first capital in the first year of the social network's existence, when he was able to attract large investors. With the development of his project, Mark simultaneously increased his income. Already in 2010, the talented programmer became the youngest billionaire on Earth, and Forbes has estimated his fortune at $ 4 billion. In the same year, the magazine Time awarded Mark Zuckerberg the title Person of the Year". Since that moment, in seven years, its capital has increased 17.5 times.
However, despite the large income, neither the billionaire nor his wife have ever been seen squandering money or significant spending. On the contrary, the family lives rather modestly in their cottage in Palo Alto. Instead of an expensive Mercedes, Mark drives an ordinary Volkswagen Golf, which an ordinary average worker can afford. As mentioned above, Zuckerberg and Chan donate a large part of their income to various funds, and not so long ago, the creator of Facebook even stated that during his life he plans to spend 99% of the money earned on charity.
Zuckerberg now owns 24% of Facebook and is the company's CEO. This year, Forbes magazine included Mark in the five richest people on the planet.
Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook started working on February 4, 2004. The creator himself describes the process of working on a social network without any special colors. According to him, every day, after classes at Harvard, he met with his team of students, and together they wrote the program code for the future site. And then the developments were tested.
When the social network was brought into working order, its first version was launched. Zuckerberg almost immediately started looking for investors who would help develop the project in the future, but for now hewas in search, Facebook was funded from his personal pocket. To seriously deal with his brainchild, Mark dropped out of university and invested all the money saved up for further education in the social network.
Within a few months, the list of investors included such well-known Internet personalities as Reed Hoffman- business network creator Linkedin, Peter Thiel- co-owner PayPal, as well as Sean Parker- file hosting developer Napster... By early next year total amount investment in Facebook was several million dollars.
In 2005, the total number of registered users of the social network reached five million users! This secured Facebook the seventh place on the list of the most popular sites in America. Such a success of a rapidly developing resource could not fail to attract the attention of large IT companies who wished to acquire it. Zuckerberg received several offers, but he refused to all.
Indeed, 2007 was a watershed year when Microsoft acquired a 1.6% stake in the company for $ 240 million. Thus, the social network began to be valued at $ 15 billion. This made it possible to sell the assets of the social network for a lot of money and receive large investments for the development of the project. Out on new level Zuckerberg opened an office in Dublin and began working on expanding the site's functionality. In 2009, the company announced its first profit. At the same time, access to the program code was opened on the Facebook site, thanks to which any user can now create an application for a variety of purposes and upload it to the network.
Since then, the social network has been developing rapidly. In 2015, the site became the second most visited site in the world, behind only the search engine Google... At the moment, the monthly traffic of the resource is on average 2 billion people... In terms of revenues, the company has an annual profit of approximately $ 10.2 billion and an annual turnover of $ 27.6 billion. Also Facebook.Inc owns a service for posting photos Instagram as well as messenger Whatsapp.
A Few Interesting Facts About Facebook Statistics
- In August 2015, the service reached the mark of one billion visitors per day;
- Every day, social media users upload about 300 million images to their pages;
- The number of daily video views is approximately 9 billion;
- In the first seven years of the social network, its various pages were opened 1 trillion times;
- People give 6 billion likes every day;
- On March 13, 2010, more people visited the social network than search engine Google;
- In 2017, the total value of Facebook shares reached the $ 500 billion mark.
In 2017, the company did a lot of work to develop Facebook. Along with Instagram, the social network added the ability to leave stories that disappear from the users' feed after a certain period of time. A service has appeared that tracks victims of natural disasters. Perhaps, in the future, this will save many lives. Since the beginning of the summer, the company has been considering a way to introduce paid news viewing, which will be activated after a user opens a certain number of posts. Along with the introduction of paid content viewing, Facebook.Inc also plans to start paying active users to publish various useful materials. And the current priority for Zuckerberg and his team is to create artificial intelligence that will recognize the current mood of users based on the material, pages, videos, images they are viewing, and the frequency of using certain emoticons.
Mark Zuckerberg's rules of success
Many people ask the question: what is the secret of Mark Zuckerberg's success? However, there is most likely no specific answer. The billionaire himself is in no hurry to reveal any secrets, so one can only guess, analyzing the work he has done over the past 15 years.
- Zuckerberg has always been single-minded, putting his principles above all else. He tries to make the most of all the opportunities available to him and get as much of the knowledge he needs as possible. All this turned him into a single-minded and educated person, who thinks sensibly and soberly assesses the situation.
- Zuckerberg owes much of his success to the people who have been working on his team all this time. The billionaire is excellent at recruiting and motivating employees to bring maximum value.
- Some of Mark's values are humility and generosity. Zuckerberg never tries to stand out from others or draw attention to himself. And constant donations to various charitable foundations speak of his desire to help people.
- Perhaps Mark Zuckerberg is the only billionaire who does not have his own business secret, but simply tries to completely devote himself to work and not make mistakes.
Film "Social Network"
In 2009 director David fincher announced the development of the film, which is based on the period in the life of Mark Zuckerberg and his team, when they were developing the first version of Facebook, while studying at the university. Responsible for writing the script Aaron Sorkin, and the book “ Reluctant billionaires«.
The motion picture was supposed to show the first months of the development of the social network and show how Zuckerberg brought together the personalities who laid the foundation for the work of the first version of Facebook. It is clear that the script had some assumptions and deviations from real story to make it more interesting for the viewer to watch a movie.
Several candidates were considered for the role of Zuckerberg, including Andrew Garfield (he still took part in the film and played Eduardo Saverin) and Shia LaBeouf, but in the end received it Jesse Eisenberg... Also in the "Social Network" played and Justin Timberlake playing the role Sean Parker.
The film was released on October 28, 2010. The film was well received by audiences and grossed $ 225 million with a budget of 40 million. The average critics' rating on Kinopoisk is 7.7 points.
The plot transports viewers to 2003, when, while still a student at Harvard, Zuckerberg assembles his first team and begins work on the future social network Facebook. Over time, they manage to achieve overwhelming success, but it turns out that not all of the main characters were ready for the popularity that fell on their heads. The film also tells how Zuckerberg became the youngest billionaire on the planet.
- Three Oscars: Best Editing, Soundtrack and Screenplay;
- Four Golden Globes: best movie, script, soundtrack, direction;
- Three British Academy Awards: Best Editing, Screenplay and Directing;
- Winning the French César Prize for Best Foreign Cinema.
Mark Zuckerberg himself did not comment on the film in the first months after its release, deliberately ignoring questions from the press. He only said that in the motion picture the story was slightly distorted, and in reality the process of creating Facebook was more boring, without any "plot twists".
However, two years later, the show “ Saturday night live»Mark Zuckerberg personally met with the leading actor of the film - Jesse Eisenberg.
During the conversation, the billionaire still admitted that he has a positive attitude towards the "Social Network", and he likes its content, but refrained from making any comments on the details of the plot.
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Mark Zuckerberg is an American programmer of Jewish origin, an entrepreneur in the field of Internet technologies, a dollar billionaire, one of the developers and founders of the social network Facebook.
Zuckerberg's biography is of great interest to many people, because he is so early age became one of the richest people in the world. He donates large sums to charity every year.
Zuckerberg's diploma work was the Synapse program, which allowed the computer to independently determine the sequence of musical compositions. Later, Microsoft will buy it from Mark for $ 2 million.
In 2002, Zuckerberg entered the faculty of Harvard University. In parallel with this, the student attended IT courses. In the future, he will say more than once that hacking was his main credo.
After 2 years, he wrote the CourseMatch program that allowed students to communicate with each other.
After that, Mark developed the "Facemash" project, thanks to which users could rate each other's photos. An interesting fact is that to create the project, he had to hack the database of the educational institution.
For this, Zuckerberg was almost expelled from the university, as users began to complain that their photos were being used without permission.
As a result, "Facemash" was closed, but this did not stop the talented programmer. Having corrected his previous mistakes, he immediately creates a new project.
Initially, Mark Zuckerberg and his fellow students created the social network "Facebook" so that Harvard students could actively communicate with each other.
Many other universities soon joined the network. On Facebook, people could view friends' photos, find out useful information about a person, and find interest groups.
However, this required considerable funds. As a result, Mark took an example from, namely, he dropped out of Harvard, and invested all the money set aside for training in his project.
In 2004, in the biography of Zuckerberg, there were important events: he moved to Palo Alto, and registered "Facebook" in his name. Later, he began to collaborate with wealthy investors, whose money made his project even more famous.
A year later, Zuckerberg bought the Facebook.com domain for $ 200,000. By that time, Facebook's audience numbered about 5 million users.
The young programmer began to receive many offers to buy a social network. However, he did not even think to sell his developing project, which in 2007 was estimated at $ 15 billion.
A year later, Mark Zuckerberg opened his headquarters in the capital of Ireland. In 2015, his social network became the 2nd most visited website in the world.
Mark Zuckerberg with his parents Interestingly, the official wage Zuckerberg is only $ 1. For the same pay, he once worked at Apple.
Thanks to his project, Mark Zuckerberg became the youngest dollar billionaire in history. This, in fact, is its uniqueness.
Personal life
In 2012, at the age of 28, Zuckerberg married Priscilla Chan, whom he had met in his youth. In this marriage, they had 2 daughters: Maxima (2015) and August (2017).
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Interestingly, before the birth of the child, the Zuckerberg family lived in rented houses. However, when Mark found out about his wife's pregnancy, he built a luxurious mansion in the elite area of Silicon Valley.
Mark Zuckerberg today
In 2017, Zuckerberg was awarded an honorary doctorate in jurisprudence from Harvard. In the same year, the number of Facebook users reached 2 billion.
Despite the worldwide popularity and colossal wealth, Mark behaves quite simply and never sticks out his multi-billion dollar fortune.
Mark Zuckerberg with his wife and child The American magazine "GQ" named Mark one of the most tastelessly dressed residents of Silicon Valley, but this in no way worries the billionaire.
It is also interesting that despite its huge fortune, he prefers to drive a simple Volkswagen Golf GEI.
Zuckerberg, like Bill Gates, often gives lectures in which he talks about his successes, as well as discusses global problems of the world.
An interesting fact is that Mark is color blind, or rather deuteranope: he does not distinguish between green and red colors poorly.
Zuckerberg's fortune
According to the authoritative edition of Forbes, Mark Zuckerberg's fortune for 2018 is estimated at $ 75 billion. It should be noted that he himself is not inclined to hoarding. The billionaire is the creator of dozens of charitable foundations.
In 2012, Zuckerberg came to. He met with the Prime Minister and also took part in two programs on Channel One.
Mark Zuckerberg with Ivan Urgant In 2015, Zuckerberg made a sensational statement saying that he was ready to donate 99% of Facebook shares to charity.
Today he continues to be one of the richest and most popular people in the world. Mark often appears on various TV shows as a guest.
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Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984 in White Plains, New York, into a well-to-do and educated family. His father, Edward Zuckerberg, had dental office right in own home... Mother, Karen, was a psychiatric practitioner before the birth of four children.
Boy with early childhood became interested in computers.
In an effort to develop the interest that has arisen, the parents hire a tutor for their son, who, however, is barely keeping up with the young miracle.
Years at Harvard
In 2002 Zuckerberg entered Harvard University. By the second year of study at the Ivy League, the boy is gaining a reputation as the best software developer in the university. He comes up with a program called “Facemash,” which compares photographs of two female students and allows users to vote for the one they like best. The program was a huge success, but later it was closed by the administration of the educational institution, who considered it unethical.
Following this, three of Mark's classmates, having heard about the success of his previous projects, offer him to help in creating a social networking site called "Harvard Connection". The boy gives his consent, but soon leaves the project, taking up the development of his own website.
Joining forces with friends, Zuckerberg is creating a social network, originally called “The Facebook,” allowing users to create profiles, upload photos, and chat with each other. After completing his sophomore year, Mark drops out of school, completely devoting himself to the site, and transfers the established company to Palo Alto, California. By the end of 2004, the social network Facebook already had 1 million users.
The rise of "Facebook"
In 2005, the venture capital firm "Accel Partners" invests in a network that at that time was open only to students educational institutions Ivy League, $ 12.7 million. Zuckerberg's company opens up access to other colleges, tertiary and international schools, and by the end of 2005, the number of subscribers exceeds 5.5 million.
In 2006, the creators of "Harvard Connection" claim that Zuckerberg stole the idea from them, and are demanding compensation.
The parties initially agree on $ 65 million in reimbursement, but the case will continue until 2011.
In 2009, fate throws another challenge to Zuckerberg when Ben Mezrich's published book, The Reluctant Billionaire, breaks sales records. The author manages to sell the rights to screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, and the critically acclaimed Social Network wins eight Academy Awards.
Zuckerberg denies the veracity of the story shown, citing many inaccuracies in the film.
But despite all the criticism, Zuckerberg and Facebook continue to thrive. In 2010, The Times magazine named Mark “Person of the Year”. In the same year, Forbes placed it at No. 35 on the List of 400, valuing the network at $ 6.9 billion.
Humanitarian activities
Having amassed an impressive fortune, Zuckerberg lets millions into various charity events. In December 2010, Mark signs the Giving Oath, pledging to give half of his wealth to good causes throughout his life.
Issue of shares
In May 2012, Zuckerberg's life is undergoing two major changes. Facebook makes an initial public offering for $ 16 billion, making the company the largest Internet equity venture in history.
On May 19, 2012 - the day after the IPO - Zuckerberg marries Priscilla Chan, whom he has dated for many years. The guests who came to celebrate Chan's graduation from medical school were surprised to find themselves at the wedding ceremony of Mark and Priscilla.
In May 2013, Facebook made its first Fortune 500 list - and Zuckerberg, at the age of 28, becomes the youngest CEO to make the list.
Quotes
Now people get rich from the success of their companies at a much earlier age, and therefore many have a great opportunity to start earlier, and have time to see the fruits of their good deeds.
Understanding people is not a waste of time.
Our mission is to make the world more open and united. We do this by empowering people to share whatever they want and be in touch with whoever they want, no matter where they are.
“Facebook” today is not just a collection of information, it is a community of people using our network to communicate and exchange information. And they will do it as long as they trust us.
The center of the world is not about computer applications. These are people.
The true story of Facebook is that we have worked hard all this time. I mean, the truth is likely to be boring to everyone. In the sense that for six years all we did was sit at the computer and write programs.
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Probably, you already know what Facebook is and there is no need to describe known things to everyone? Therefore, I want to tell you the story of Facebook in my free presentation. More precisely, the history of the creation of Facebook and its development to the level of the largest social network in the world.
Yes, perhaps this is the most powerful social network in the world, which over the years has evolved from a service for a small circle of friends into a global platform for communication. This word is now on the lips of every representative of the progressive the younger generation... Facebook is gradually becoming an integral part of our life. And it is no coincidence.
The history of the creation of Facebook began long before the final formulation of the very concept of "social network". At the time of the birth of Facebook, there were no social networks in our usual sense. The history of the development of Facebook is at the same time the history of the development of social networks.
Everything new that appears on Facebook is copied by others and becomes the de facto standard. And that's why the Facebook story gets so much attention. She uses her example to study the experience of building a perfect new service, the experience of developing and implementing social services and the experience of interacting with huge masses of users.
Now let's take a closer look at the history of Facebook's creation in a little more detail and in more detail. In order to taste the experience too :)
Mark Zuckerberg
The founder and "developer" of Facebook is Mark Zuckerberg - a young man who dropped out at Harvard (just because of Facebook), with a non-standard outlook on how people communicate with each other.
The personality is rather controversial. Someone considers Zuckerberg to be a disinterested genius who has made all mankind happy. Someone is an unprincipled thief who thinks only about getting a lot of money. Someone is just a lucky person who created a service that is called "for themselves", which then "shot". There are many opinions.
Personally, I consider Zuckerberger a typical Jew who clearly sees his goal and goes to it, regardless of anyone and not stopping at anything. All history of Facebook development this confirms. What is the purpose? Wait and see.
Start
Passion for computers at the very young billionaire modernity - Mark Zuckerberg - appeared in the 6th grade. He began his thorny path with known language programming C ++ and in early years developed a computer "Risk". Then there was the program that Zuckerberg created for his father. With the help of it, employees of his company could communicate with each other.
After that, Mark programmed a special application called "Synapse", capable of automatically generating "playlists" of listeners based on their musical preferences. The program was so successful that monsters such as Microsoft and AOL turned their sophisticated eyes on it. The company immediately offered Mark a good job (albeit on condition that all rights to "Synapse" go to Microsoft). Already a sensible young man in his early years, Mark Zuckerberg refused.
He wanted more. And now we can say that then he did the right thing. By the way, the relationship between Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates does not end there, but more on that later.
Why Facebook is "Facebook"
Many believe that it begins with the days of Harvard University, where Mark entered the faculty. A talented programmer with great potential at the Faculty of Psychology - this was a rather non-standard decision :-)
However, the history of the creation of Facebook began a little earlier - at the Phillips Exeter Academy - private school with a rich tradition in New Hampshire. Rather, not the creation itself, but the accumulation of the basis on which Facebook subsequently grew.
As a student of this school, Mark Zuckerberg received the so-called "The Photo Address Book" at his disposal. It was a kind of student guide, in which one could see the photographs, phone numbers and even the addresses of their classmates. The data in it was updated annually, so it was very convenient for every student.
Do you know what the schoolchildren called this book among themselves? "The Facebook"! The reason is simple to the point of banality - original name was too long to pronounce.
When he entered Harvard, Mark discovered that there was no such service at the university. He took the initiative to create an online directory like "The Facebook" in front of management. And he was refused, which was based on the confidentiality of student data.
In narrow circles, they say that this circumstance really infuriated the talented programmer. And he was not going to retreat.
Facemash
One day (or night) Mark Zuckerberg hacked into a Harvard University database and created a simple site, code-named "Facemash". The concept of this site was simple - the visitors were offered photographs of female students and the possibility of assessing them according to a certain "scale" of attractiveness. The site was only accessible inside Harvard.
What came out of this, it is better to indicate in numbers and figures: 2 hours after the launch of the site - 450 visitors and 22,000 photo views! Note - the visitors were the same students at Harvard University. Those. 450 direct acquaintances of the owners of the posted photos in 2 hours!
As soon as information about such a "heroic" act reached the management of the educational institution, it was not Mark Zuckerberg who was enraged. As a result, he got serious problems, and the site was safely closed. But if someone thought that this stopped Mark, then he is deeply mistaken.
Facebook creation
February 4, 2004 can be remembered for various events. For example, on this day at the Sotheby’s auction the most inveterate collectors fought for the right to own the stunning sculpture “The Great Dancer” by Edgar Degas. And on the same day, the social network "The Facebook" was launched in a small room of the Harvard University dormitory. Launched quietly, modestly and without fanfare.
In addition to Zuckerberger, the "starting" lineup included three more students: Eduardo Saverin (as the first Facebook financier), Dustin Moskowitz and Chris Hughes (as assistant programmers).
This is how it began modern history Facebook... The initial promotion and formation of the starting audience was carried out using the good old SPAM. This is one of the most striking examples of when SPAM gave phenomenal results.
Winklevoss brothers, take one
Any ingenious idea always gathers around great amount scandals. And the history of Facebook was no exception.
Exactly 6 days after the launch of Facebook, three Harvard University undergraduates (Brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, as well as their friend Divya Narendra) accused Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their idea, on the basis of which, according to them, he created Facebook.
They claimed to have hired Mark Zuckerberg back in 2003 (inspired by the "success" of his Facemash story) to create their HarvardConnection.com service. They convinced everyone and everything that a number of them personal ideas and the insights they shared with Mark were impudently borrowed by the latter when he created Facebook.
The details of this scandal are not particularly interesting, and the information about it is very contradictory. Let's dwell on the main points and that will be enough.
The offended high school students complained to university officials and also persuaded the Harvard Crimson newspaper to publish a revealing article. This was facilitated by the appeal of another student, John Thomson, who claimed that Zuckerberg on Facebook used his idea as well.
The history of litigation and mutual claims lasted for several years. As a result, Facebook paid $ 65 million in compensation: $ 20 million in cash and $ 45 million in Facebook shares.
My opinion coincides with the opinion of other reasonable people who believe that Zuckerberg stole, if not completely, then a significant part of the idea from the Winklevoss brothers. And since they did not enter into any contracts with Zuckerberger when hiring them, the history of the creation of Facebook is associated with the name of Mark Zuckerberger, and not the Winklevoss brothers.
History of Facebook development
Initially, "The Facebook" focused exclusively on Harvard University. In the first month of the existence of the social network, about half of Harvard's students signed up to it.
But already in March 2004, "The Facebook" went beyond the walls of Harvard and connected students from Stanford, Columbia University and even Yale to its network. Mark Zuckerberg targeted the universities of the so-called "Ivy League", which included all the elite educational institutions. Then most of the largest educational institutions in the United States and Canada were gradually connected to Facebook.
Any development is impossible without active investments. At the time of its creation, "The Facebook" existed on the bare enthusiasm of fellow students and the small financial investments of Eduardo Saverin (whom Zuckerberg would later cunningly "throw" out of the company and leave with his nose) to pay for server services.
But the hour came when Facebook got so big that it demanded maximum attention. And in order for the history of its development not to be interrupted, more significant finances were required. Mark Zuckerberg leaves for Silicon Valley and settles in Palo Alto. There he met Sean Parker, who went down in the history of the Internet, thanks to the creation of the file-sharing network Napster, which was sensationalized by numerous scandals and lawsuits with record companies. After the closure of Napster, Parker dreamed of working for a company that would revolutionize the world with its ideas.
Facebook met this Parker's “requirement”. And Parker was needed by Zuckerberger because of his many acquaintances with the financial tycoons of Silicon Valley. As a result, at some point in Facebook history, Parker and Zuckerberg worked together to develop the company.
Sean Parker convinced Zuckerberg of the need to grow the project and attract outside funding, which he promised solid support.
The first investor in Facebook was Peter Teale, one of the founders of the famous PayPal. His investments amounted to $ 500 thousand. Thanks to this, in less than six months, "The Facebook" has collected the first million users. Since that moment in its history, the company has been actively engaged in venture investment issues.
In 2005, for just $ 200,000, there was a small change in the social networking domain name. The prefix "the" disappeared and just "Facebook" appeared. After that, the social network ceased to be positioned as focused exclusively on students. Anyone could register to communicate with their friends. A new stage has begun in the history of Facebook.
Facebook and the world
For example, the monopoly Yahoo! offered 900 million dollars for the entire project. And he received another refusal from Zuckerberg.
This is where Bill Gates reappears in Facebook history, buying a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $ 260 million. From that moment on, the founder and ideological inspirer Microsoft Corporation has launched its own personal page on the social network. But if you think that Mr. Gates limited himself to this, then you are deeply mistaken.
After purchasing the shares, he entered into an agreement with Facebook, under which the social network posted Microsoft on its pages until 2011.
In 2008, Mark Zuckerberg became the youngest billionaire in world history - his fortune was estimated at $ 1.5 billion.
Russian investors can also be found among Facebook's shareholders. In 2009, Digital Sky Technologies, which is controlled by Yuri Milner, Grigory Finger and Alisher Usmanov, acquired 1.96% of preferred shares for $ 200 million. Later, Russian investors bought another 3% stake. Today the participation of Digital Sky Technologies is 10%.
The social network Facebook is actively developing and implements its own API that allows you to connect numerous applications (games, informers, calendars, etc.). September 30, 2010 years of Facebook entered into an agreement with the telecommunications corporation Skype, therefore soon the integration of the two giants is expected.
Facebook representatives say that in 2011, the billionth user will register on the social network. And colossal efforts are being made to achieve this mark.
Today, Facebook can be viewed in 68 languages. Promotion to many regions of our planet is complicated by low-speed Internet. And in this direction are undertaken serious steps- creation of a light version of a social network called "Facebook Zero". Negotiations are also held with representatives of the companies. cellular(including Beeline and MTS) on the ability to view pages from mobile phones.
In the current 2011, the Facebook story promises to be no less interesting. That only is the next lawsuit of the Winklevoss brothers, who again decided to "shake" the wallets of the founders of the social network. This time, the brothers' financial appetite increased substantially. No specific amounts have been disclosed, but according to some sources, claims of $ 500 million and more can be expected.
Perhaps the voracious millionaire siblings should focus their efforts on making their biggest dream come true of being a member of the Olympic rowing team at the 2012 Games? In any case, now the whole world is waiting for the end of another bold attempt of the brothers.
Conclusion
History of the creation of Facebook vividly confirms one simple thought - everything is only in your hands. You can, of course, look for a guy who will do everything, and all you have to do is get a profit. Only in this case there is a very great chance to fly over like the Winklevoss brothers.
And you can not wait for the weather by the sea and implement YOUR ideas with YOUR OWN hands. Let it be clumsy, let it learn in the process from your mistakes, but in this case you definitely will not have to regret that someone turned out to be faster than you. After all, it is much more profitable to get the necessary knowledge than to miss the "right of the first night" :-)
As for the development of Facebook, I think the idea itself has reached its peak. Further growth is possible only purely quantitatively. And then only for a while. And then something new is bound to appear on the Internet and Facebook will become "one of".
If you are interested in the story of Facebook and “hold on no longer”, then I advise you to read the book « » ... It describes the creation of Facebook in more detail in a type of art form. True, they try to make Zuckerberger white and fluffy, but this is the only drawback of this book.
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