Mark Zuckerberg

OUTLINE
- Profile
- Early Life
- Harvard
- Business Starting
- Facebook
- Interesting Facts

PROFILE
Name Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
Born May 14, 1984 (age 26)
Palo Alto, California
Education Harvard College
(dropped out in 2004)
Occupation CEO/President of
Facebook, software
developer,
philanthropist

EARLY LIFE
Born and raised in Dobbs Ferry, NY
Attended Ardsley High School and the Phillips Exeter Academy (boarding school)
Recruited by Microsoft and AOL in his senior year
But chose to go to Harvard

HARVARD
Harvard did not distribute a student directory
He hacked into the school’s records and put up Facemash which was similar to Hot or Not
He got into a lot of trouble from the admins
Still it was the precursor to Facebook

BUSINESS STARTED
He tried his face book
concept again with
thefacebook.com
(Feb 4, 2004)
This time it was voluntary
Within 2 weeks half of Harvard had signed up
Within a few months it has spread to other universities

BUSINESS STARTED
At the end of Sophmore year Mark moved out to Palo Alto into a rented apartment near Stanford
He ran into and roomed with Napster co-founder Sean Parker who introduced him to the ways of the Valley
Parker introduced Mark to Facebook’s first major investor PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel

FACEBOOK
“It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me”
Mark Zuckerberg

INTERSTING FACTS
Net worth US$6.9 billion
(2010)
Defect Red–green
colorblindness
Criminal More than 20
lawsuits
Movie “Social network”
Donated $ 100 million