Mark Zuckerberg

                              THE FACE OF                      FACEBOOK.

 GENERAL INFORMATION

Birth Date                   5/14/84  
Born in                        New York state
Degrees                       Harvard
Company                    Facebook. 
                                   - Founder and CEO,
                                    Board Of Directors  
Web Presences            Facebook Profile
                                    Twitter profile
 

  Mark Zuckerberg is the co-founder and CEO of Facebook, the world's largest social network, with nearly one billion users around the world. He founded the site in his college dorm room in 2004 with his roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. 

              Facebook is a directory of people in the world and a place for private citizens to create public identities. you sign up and start posting information about yourself such as photographs, employment history and others. Some of the information can be seen only by your friends and some are available to anyone. Facebook Privacy policy confusing  to many people, and the company has changed them frequently.

 EARLY LIFE.

    Mark Zuckerberg is the son of Edward Zuckerberg who ran dental practice and his mother, Karen,worked as psychiatrist before the birth of her four children, Mark, Randi, Donna and Arielle.

    Zuckerberg developed an interest in computers when he was in middle school. He used Atari Basic Programming to create  mesaging program he called 'ZuckNet'. The program allowed  all  the computers between the house and dental office to communicate by pinging each other. The family used 'ZuckNet' to communicate within the house and also in his father's dental office. Zuckerberg also created computer games for fun and his friends played it.

COLLEGE YEAR

      Zuckerberg attended Harvard University and studied computer science. While at Harvard, he built programs called CourseMatch and Facemash. The program became wildly popular, but was later shut down by the school administration.

      A few months later, Zuckerberg founded and start to work on his own social networking site with friends Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin.

      They created a site that allowed users to create their own profiles, upload photos, and communicate with other users which first called The Facebook. After his sophomore year, Zuckerberg dropped out of college to devote himself to Facebook full time, moving the company to Palo Alto, California. By the end of 2004, Facebook had 1 million users.

ACHIEVEMENT

• Time magazine has named  Mark Zuckerberg Person of the Year in 2010.

Mark Zuckerberg is recognized as one of the youngest billionaires since Facebook has achieved fame with more than 500 million users and gets the title as the world's largest social network.

• Mark Zuckerberg earns top spot on Fortune's '40 Under 40' list in 2011

Fortune put him on top of their “40 Under 40″ list, the second annual celebration of brilliant twenty- and thirty somethings whose relentless innovation and business savvy have transformed our world

• In 2012, Facebook raised $16 billion in an initial public offering that valued the company at $104 billion. 

It was the third-largest public offering in the history of the United States, behind General Motors and Visa.


Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in the world and he is such an inspiring entrepreneur.  A lot have been said and written about this young billionaire entrepreneur but I am going to focus on his entrepreneurial achievements.