I choose Mark Zuckerberg because his over the years has become one of the
most influential people in the world. He was founder and creator of Facebook.
Nowadays, many people using the Facebook to connect with other around world.
Mark Zuckerberg was born May 14, 1984 in White
Plains, New York. He was American computer
programmer, Internet entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was one of the five founders of the biggest social networking
website Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg got interested in programming yet in elementary
school. The fact that the world is divided between programmers and users, Mark Zuckerberg found out when he was 10 years old and got his first PC Quantex 486DX on the
Intel 486. In middle school he began to write software and use computers. He
learned Atari basic programming and a tutor he had considered a “prodigy.”
At Ardsley High School, Mark Zuckerberg excelled in in
classics. He transferred to Academy of Phillips Exeter, an exclusive preparatory school in New Hampshire where he won
prizes in math, astronomy and physics. While he
was still in high school, he took a college graduate program in computer
programming. He built a program called Zucknet where the computer at home could
communicate with his father’s computer at his dental practice. He also used his
creativity to build computer games often out of ideas his friends would draw
for him. When he eventually went to go to college, he claimed to be able to
read and write in Latin, French, Hebrew, English and Greek. His overall
knowledge and intelligence helped him excel at college, where he would often
recite poems such as the epic ‘The Iliad’.
In college Mark Zuckerberg was already known as a
“programming prodigy” due to the work he had done in high school. There he
wrote a program he called CourseMatch that helped students choose their
subjects on the basis of lists of courses from other users. In college the students had books called “Facebooks.”
They had the pictures and names of people that lived in the student dorms. Mark Zuckerberg build a website, where there were two pictures of males and two of females.
People that visited the site had to choose which person was hotter. This site
went up over one weekend and it was called Facemash. However, the college shut
it down because the popularity of it kept students from getting onto the
Internet. Also some students didn’t like the idea of their pictures being used
and Mark Zuckerberg was forced to apologize for his actions.
In 2004 Mark Zuckerberg began writing a new
website which he called TheFacebook.
He had several students help him with TheFacebook including Eduardo Saverin,
Andrew McCollum, and Dustin Moskovitz. The site was initially just a Harvard
site but soon expanded to other colleges and universities. By 2005
“TheFacebook” was known just as Facebook. The site opened up to anyone over age
13 in 2006. By 2007 the site had over 100,000 businesses listing their
companies on Facebook and creating pages. By 2011 it became the largest digital
photograph host and had over 350 million accessing the site over mobile phones.
On May 18th 2012 Facebook
made its IPO (initial public offering), offering 421 million shares to private
investors at the price of $38. This set the value of the whole company at $104
billion, which made Facebook the biggest
business going public
till then. Almost everybody wanted to buy a piece of the booming social
miracle, so rising almost $16 billion from the market was like a walk in the
park. However, things didn’t went well for investors. Just two weeks after the
IPO, the market price of the shares fell dramatically by 27% to $27.72 per
share. During the next months the price even further, reaching level around $19
. All this didn’t made investors really happy, some of whom lost around 50% of
their investments for a few months. More than 40 lawsuits were filled the first
week after the IPO. The price has recovered in 2013 and currently it’s around
$41.
This video is a brief biography on the founder and CEO
of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg. In this video you will see the secret's to Mark Zuckerberg's
success and how you can use the same steps to becoming successful and
potentially as successful as the youngest billionaire in the world.
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