Facts you should know about Mark Zuckerberg
January 1, 2020
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist. Zuckerberg is known for co-founding and leading Facebook, Inc. and its namesake social networking website as its chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder.
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Mark Zuckerberg began programming at a young age—when he was 12 he created a messaging program that his father used in his dental office, allowing the receptionist to notify him of new patients without yelling across the office.
Zuckerberg took a computer graduate class at the nearby Mercy College while still in high school.
His parents even hired a computer tutor to work with the young Zuckerberg, but the tutor admitted that it quickly became difficult to stay ahead of his pupil, referring to him as a “prodigy.”
Mark Zuckerberg attended high school at Phillips Exeter Academy, a private school in New Hampshire.
He was approached by several companies with job offers (including AOL and Microsoft) before he even graduated high school, but Zuckerberg turned them all down.
Zuckerberg first launched Facebook from his dormitory at Harvard University.
He dropped out of Harvard University after his sophomore year to continue working on Facebook.
A movie was made about Zuckerberg and the birth of Facebook, calledThe Social Network.
Before Facebook, Zuckerberg created CourseMatch for Harvard students, helping students pick out classes based on which classes their friends were enrolled in.
He also created the infamous Facemash program, which compared pictures of two Harvard students and allowed users to vote on who was more attractive. Harvard administration shut down the program, deeming it inappropriate.
Zuckerberg’s next project involved teaming up with three other Harvard Students, Divya Narendra and the Winklevoss twins (who are infamously portrayed inThe Social Network). They aimed to create a social networking site called Harvard Connection, which would serve as a matchmaking site for students. Zuckerberg soon left this project to work on Facebook with his friends.
Zuckerberg was close friends with Sean Parker, the co-founder of Napster, who also became a founding president of Facebook.
Early on, many companies like Yahoo! and MTV Networks approached Zuckerberg in hopes of advertising on Facebook, but Zuckerberg turned them down, not wanting to sell out.
In 2006, the Harvard Connection team sued Zuckerberg, claiming he stole their concept and requesting compensation of their business losses. While Zuckerberg asserted that the ideas were completely different, incriminating messages revealed that Zuckerberg may have intentionally ripped off intellectual property from the Harvard Connection.