Being the CEO of Facebook, now the largest social networking
site in the world.
Facebook now has just over 1.3 billion active monthly
users, who together share 1 million links and 3 million messages every 20
minutes. FB also earned a total revenue of $6.15 billion just in 2013 alone.
The success of Facebook, launched in 2004, has allowed Mark
to live the lifestyle of a champion. He now lives in a $7 million, 5 bedroom
house with his wife Priscilla.
But where did Mark Zuckerberg come from and how
has he been able to become so successful?
Before the Days of Facebook
Mark had always been into computers and software even as a
child. In fact, it was his father that first taught him basic programming in
the 90’s. After this, his father hired a software developer (David Newman) to
further advance Mark’s programming knowledge by tutoring him privately.
A lot of kids love spending their time playing video games,
especially in the 90’s when gaming really took off as a form of entertainment.
However, Mark was different; he enjoyed creating and
programming his own, rather than just picking them up and playing them. Mark
wasn’t creating games for long though.
He soon moved onto bigger things; the first being a music
player called “Synapse Media Player”, which he created under his own
company name Intelligent Media Group.
The College Years
Mark’s programming projects really started to develop as
soon as he became a student at Harvard, studying psychology and computer
science. By this point he had quite the reputation as a programming
prodigy.
It wasn’t long before he built “CourseMatch”, a program
specifically designed to help students form their own study groups and choose
classes based on other’s selections. This program was followed very shortly by “FaceMash”,
where students got to make a choice of the hottest person out of various photos
of students on the screen.
The Creation of Facebook
Facebook was launched from Mark’s dorm room back in February
2004. It begin as a harvard exclusive website, until it started to go and
Zuckerberg then decided to expand to other schools.
As Facebook began to grow Mark decided to move to
California, along with several of his friends, to continue working on the site
in a small house he leased to serve as an office for the company.
Soon after, Zuckerberg met with Peter Thiel, who then
invested in the company. This allowed Facebook to get their first official
office in 2004.
During this time they had already received various offers
from other companies wanting to buy Facebook, however Mark stated that he was
not in this for the money, and more for the vision that he had for social
networking as a whole.
In 2009 Zuckerberg went to Peter Currie for advice on
finance strategies for Facebook. A year later Facebook hit 500 million
users, and Mark was set on turning this into 1 billion…
Mark Zuckerberg is successful because he loves what he
does. He has a passion for programming and always has since he was a child. Too
many people are in it for just the money and Zuckerberg has been able to
succeed because of the completely opposite reason.
He is not in it for the money; however he has a dream, a
vision and a passion for what he does. This is why he is successful and is
where he is today.
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