Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg is not yet 25 years old, but he has proved that you do not need years of work experience to become the youngest billionaire from the results of his own sweat and not inherited.
Zuckerberg grew up in upstate New York that is Dobbs Fery and attended Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. His father was a dentist, her mother is a psychiatrist, and he has three sisters. He taught himself computer programming, and during his senior high school levels up, he and his colleagues sesame hacker-programmer Adam D'Angelo interested in AOL and Microsoft to create a Winamp plug-ins that can build customized playlists.
Mark Zuckerberg, dismissing both FacebookTetapi job offer after college in 2002 - Zuckerberg to Harvard and D'Angelo to Caltech. But Mark's journey to receive a degree in computer science fate is not determined to achieve. Not only to learn programming, he created the image rating site called Facemash, using photograph-photograph from other Harvard students of similar online photo site of the school (similar to a yearbook publication that is designed to introduce fellow students to each other). But he created his own program to hack into the student data and use these photos without permission, and finally got a warning from the admin because it violates privacy laws and computer security.
But Mark did not feel inhibited. He even completed a platform for "Facebook", combines the traditional concept of facebook (online school yearbook, red) with sites of large-scale social networks like MySpace and Friendster.
In February 2004, Zuckerberg launched the program from his dorm room with fellow founder Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin. Within a few weeks, more than half the schools had opened the account. Then widened again to more universities and campuses, and in the spring, Zuckerberg and his team moved to Palo Alto, California, rented a contract and mingle with investors as one of the Paypal founder Peter Thiel and Napster cofounder Sean Parker .
Mark Zuckerberg-FacebookPada August 2005, Mark officially change the company name into Facebook, and after successfully earned $ 12.7 million, the company is ready to move to a higher level.
The site was developed from the campus network and including school-high school, and neighborhood groups work, and in September 2006, every person who has an email address can join. Now, there are more than 110 million active users, and according to comScore Media Metrix, which recorded activity of the Web, Facebook was recorded as the top photo-sharing site on the internet network, and is the fourth site the most visited in the world, accounting for more than 1 percent of all Internet use.
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