Alexis Julien
Mr. Daniels
Introduction to Business
March 14, 2014
Mark Zuckerberg
One famous entrepreneur today is Mark Zuckerberg, the inventor of the popular social media, Facebook. It was said as he was in Harvard University he and a few friends came up with the idea of Facebook. After a few years Facebook became internationally loved. Ever since the invention of Facebook there have been many positive, but also negative effects.
In the suburbs of Dobbs Ferry, New York on May 14, 1984 Mark Zuckerberg was born into a family of three sisters. His first interest in computers was in his early childhood in elementary school. When Mark was at the age of twelve he had created a messenger called “ZuckNet”. His invention allowed his computers in his home to talk to each other including his dad’s dentist office.
After High school Mark enrolled in Academy of Phillips Exeter, a preparatory school. While being at the academy he was still amazed with software and wanted a degree in it. While graduating from the academy he proceeded to Harvard University. Being at Harvard, almost everyone knew him as a software programmer. With his software skills he quickly developed a site called Facemash where it would compare two of the girl’s faces and ask which one looked better.
Along the way at Harvard three men, Divya Narendra, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss approached Mark asking for his software skills to create a site called The Harvard Connection. The site was used to be a dating site around Harvard. Mark agreed to work with them when he got the idea to make his own site and dropped out of their project. With the help of Mark’s friends, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin they created the popular social media site called Facebook....
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...erberg is one of those big risks takers today and still is. One risk Mark took was while he was creating Facebook he dropped out of Harvard University to complete the website. By doing this he risked the chance if the website he was creating would ever take off plus he had no job at the time. After completing Facebook, it soared off the charts and many people wanted to be apart of Facebook.
Another risk Mark took was when Facebook was still becoming a hit sensation many businesses called to be apart of Facebook. But Mark took the risk of ignoring important phone calls, and cancelling business meetings. (ZuckerbergSuccessful). This shocked many investors, but Zuckerberg had a plan to rise the demand of Facebook by doing this. After taking this risk Facebook became even popular with many more investors wanting Facebook but also with Facebook users.
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...dual that started the social networking website, Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg, who was born on “May 14, 1984”, is the “youngest billionaire on the planet”. (Web). Growing up, “He was the second of four children and the only son in the educated family.” (Web). His parents were both educated just like Larry Page’s parents. However, the father was, “a dentist” and the mother, “a psychiatrist”. (Web). With the potential of success because of the opportunities at such a young age, “Mark got interested in programming during elementary school.” (Web). “The fact that the world is divided between programmers and users, Mark found out when he was 10 years old and got his first PC Quantex 486DX on the Intel 486.” (Web). Receiving a computer at such a young age and with Zuckerberg’s interest in computer programming, had really gave him a head start towards becoming successful.
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...tions he dealt with. It is the story of how the world’s youngest billionaire, Mark Zuckerberg, created Facebook.
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