Internet Entreprenur: Mark Zuckerberg

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INTERNET ENTREPRENUR :

MARK ZUCKERBERG
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The Story of
Chairman and CEO of
Mark Zuckerberg

Early Life

Early Life Born May 14, 1984 White Plains, NY Son of Edward
& Karen Zuckerberg with his three sisters, Graduated from
Phillips Academy

Early Life He created a messaging program he named


"Zucknet". His father used the program in his dental office.
He built a music player called the Media Player that used
artificial intelligence to learn the user's listening habits,
Microsoft & AOL tried to purchase & recruit Zuckerberg, but
he chose instead to enroll at Harvard University in September
2002 .

Life At Harvard

Life in Harvard University He built a program called Course


Match , which helped students choose their classes based on
the course selections of other users and also to help them
form study groups.

He also invented Face mash , which compared the pictures of


two students on campus and allowed users to vote on which
one was more attractive.

The program became wildly popular, but was later shut down
by the school administration after it was deemed
inappropriate.

The Rising of Facebook


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

Formation of Facebook

Formation of Facebook Mark launched Facebook from his


dorm room on February 4th, 2004 Zuckerberg expanded the
service quickly, offering it to all League schools by the end of
the spring and more schools the following semester.

Facebook had more than 5.5 million users in December 2005.


Zuckerberg turned down offers from companies such as
Yahoo! and MTV Networks.

Formation of Facebook

Formation of Facebook In 2006, the creators of Harvard Connection


claimed that Zuckerberg stole their idea, and insisted the software
developer needed to pay for their business losses

Although an initial settlement of $65 million was reached between


the two parties, the legal dispute over the matter continued well into
2011,

After the IPO, Zuckerberg will retain a 22% ownership share in


Facebook and will own 57% of the voting shares. The IPO raised $16
billion, making it the third largest in U.S. history.

Where did the name come from?

actual facebook is a student directory


that is published by a school every
year with pictures of all students and
staff
These facebooks were a very
common thing among most colleges
and prep schools

Who uses Facebook?

facebook
Home

Profile

Friends

Im worth $13.5
Billion!
Info:
Knows English,
Chinese

Messages

Sear
ch

I am the youngest Billionaire of the world

Social Work

Zuckerberg founded the Start-up:


Education foundation.

On September 22, 2010, it was reported


that Zuckerberg had arranged to donate
$100million toNewark Public Schools.

On December 9, 2010, Zuckerberg,Bill


Gates, and investorsigned a promise.

Acquisition

Internet.org

In a public Facebook post, Zuckerberg launched


theInternet.orgproject in late August 2013. Zuckerberg
explained that the primary aim of the initiative is to provide
Internet access to the 5 billion people who are not
connected as of the launch date.
Internet.org will also create new jobs and open up new
markets, according to Zuckerberg.
To stay proven on the efforts of bringing in the concept
ofnet neutrality, Mark Zuckerberg metNarendra Modi to
discuss on how to effectively establish affordableinternet
access to the less developed countries.As a token of
initiation, Mark Zuckerberg changed his Facebook profile
picture to extend his support to theDigital Indiato help the
rural communities to stay connected to the internet.

Achievements

Merriam-Webster names FACEBOOK its No. 2


Word of the Year for 2007. First the
dictionary, then the rest of the world.
Campaign Media Awards 2007: Media
Achiever of the Year - Mark Zuckerberg.
Fast Company named Facebook number 15
in its list of the world's 50 most innovative
companies of 2009.

Mark Zuckerberg Desk


at HQ

THANK

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