Mark Zuckerberg Prepared by 3rd year student Tereshenko Vitalina

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

OUTLINE

- Profile
- Early Life
- Harvard
- Business Starting

- Facebook
- Interesting Facts
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PROFILE Name Mark Elliot Zuckerberg Born May 14, 1984 (age 26)

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
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EARLY LIFE Born and raised in Dobbs Ferry, NY Attended Ardsley

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
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HARVARD Harvard did not distribute a student directory He hacked into

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
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BUSINESS STARTED He tried his face book concept again with thefacebook.com

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
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BUSINESS STARTED At the end of Sophmore year Mark moved out

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
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FACEBOOK “It's not because of the amount of money. For me

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
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INTERSTING FACTS Net worth US$6.9 billion (2010) Defect Red–green colorblindness Criminal

INTERSTING FACTS

Net worth US$6.9 billion
(2010)
Defect Red–green
colorblindness
Criminal More

than 20
lawsuits
Movie “Social network”
Donated $ 100 million