Based on the buzz of his previous projects, three of his fellow students—Divya Narendra, and twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss—sought him out to work on an idea for a social networking site they called Harvard Connection. This site was designed to use information from Harvard's student networks in order to create a dating site for the Harvard elite. Zuckerberg agreed to help with the project, but soon dropped out to work on his own social networking site, The Facebook.
Zuckerberg and his friends Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin created The Facebook, a site that allowed users to create their own profiles, upload photos, and communicate with other users. The group ran the site out of a dorm room at Harvard University until June That year Zuckerberg dropped out of college and moved the company to Palo Alto, California. By the end of , Facebook had 1 million users. In , Zuckerberg's enterprise received a huge boost from the venture capital firm Accel Partners.
Zuckerberg's company then granted access to other colleges, high school and international schools, pushing the site's membership to more than 5. The site began attracting the interest of other companies that wanted to advertise with the popular social hub. Not wanting to sell out, Zuckerberg turned down offers from companies such as Yahoo! Instead, he focused on expanding the site, opening up his project to outside developers and adding more features.
Zuckerberg seemed to be going nowhere but up. However, in , the business mogul faced his first big hurdle: the creators of Harvard Connection claimed that Zuckerberg stole their idea, and insisted the software developer needed to pay for their business losses. Zuckerberg maintained that the ideas were based on two very different types of social networks.
After lawyers searched Zuckerberg's records, incriminating instant messages revealed that Zuckerberg may have intentionally stolen the intellectual property of Harvard Connection and offered Facebook users' private information to his friends. Zuckerberg later apologized for the incriminating messages, saying he regretted them. The critically acclaimed film received eight Academy Award nominations.
Mezrich was heavily criticized for his re-telling of Zuckerberg's story, which used invented scenes, re-imagined dialogue and fictional characters. Zuckerberg objected strongly to the film's narrative, and later told a reporter at The New Yorker that many of the details in the film were inaccurate. For example, Zuckerberg had been dating his longtime girlfriend since He also said he was never interested in joining any of the final clubs. Yet Zuckerberg and Facebook continued to succeed, in spite of the criticism.
Date of Birth: May Profession: computer scientist, entrepreneur, chief executive officer, programmer, patron of the arts. Nationality: United States. Zodiac Sign: Taurus. And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them. There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy.
Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp. I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. Advertising works most effectively when it's in line with what people are already trying to do.
And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook - they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing - so there's really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that. When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.
There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook. One such program was this program called Match. People could enter the different courses that they were taking, and see what other courses would be correlated with the courses they are taking. My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things.
But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world. The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like. People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us. I started the site when I was I didn't know much about business back then. I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so.
As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system. I actually do think you're seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their brand and engaging. And so I think Home Depot will want to humanize itself. I think that's a lot of why companies are starting blogs, are just giving more insight into what's going on with them.
Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga. Facebook is uniquely positioned to answer questions that people have, like, what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York lately and liked? These are queries you could potentially do with Facebook that you couldn't do with anything else, we just have to do it.
Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn't really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn't until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth. Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn't have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people.
But now they do. He continued to make computer games with his friends in his free time. As a junior in highschool, Mark Zuckerberg attended Phillips Exeter Academy where he won tons of prizes in the subjects of math, astronomy, and physics. Jul 1, He became known as the go-to software developer.
Sep 1, Within months of attending Harvard, Zuckerberg was already known as "a programming prodigy". He studied pyschology and computer science and later joined Alpha Epsilon Pi. It was here at Harvard where Zuckerberg created many of his pre-social networking websites.
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