Mark Zuckerberg

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Mark Zuckerberg Prepared by 3rd year student Tereshenko Vitalina

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

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