Mark Zuckerberg

WHAT DID HE DO?

Mark Zuckerberg is co-founder and CEO of the social-networking website Facebook, as well as one
of the world's youngest billionaires.
Mark Zuckerberg co-founded the social-networking website Facebook out of his college dorm room at
Harvard University. Zuckerberg left college after his sophomore year to concentrate on the site, the
user base of which has grown to more than two billion people, making Zuckerberg a billionaire many
times over.
WHERE AND WHEN DID THE PERSON LIVE?
Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York, into a comfortable, well-educated
family.
Zuckerberg and his friends Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin created The
Facebook, a site that allowed users to create their own profiles, upload photos, and communicate
with other users. The group ran the site out of a dorm room at Harvard University until June 2004.

That year Zuckerberg dropped out of college and moved the company to Palo Alto, California. By the
end of 2004, Facebook had 1 million users.

In 2005, Zuckerberg's enterprise received a huge boost from the venture capital firm Accel Partners.
Accel invested $12.7 million into the network, which at the time was open only to Ivy League
students.

Zuckerberg's company then granted access to other colleges, high school and international schools,
pushing the site's membership to more than 5.5 million users by December 2005. The site began
attracting the interest of other companies that wanted to advertise with the popular social hub.

WHY HE CONSIDERED A GENIUS?

The word genius revolves around talent. Talent leads to seeing things no one else can see.
Before Facebook was myspace. Myspace lost the track of what people wanted from a social network.
The purpose was just to embrace the need to socialize. To know more about friends. What they did,
where they did go etc.

HOW DID HE ACHIEVE SUCCESS?

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, is arguably one of the world’s most successful
entrepreneurs. At just 24 years of age he became the world’s youngest billionaire, and his website
has now reached over 900 million active users. Perhaps most impressively of all, he achieved all of
his success through a project he started in his college dorm room.
He Truly Believed In What He Was Doing

It takes a lot of dedication to become successful, and not just during office hours. While Mark
Zuckerberg‘s friends were out partying, he would stay in his dorm room and work on coding his
website until early in the morning.
 He Loves To Dream Big
Not too many people would dare to believe that a project they had started in their college dorm room
would end up becoming a worldwide phenomenon. While it is unlikely that Mark Zuckerberg was
aiming for one billion users from day one, it is clear that he always had big ideas about his company’s
success and his overall vision for the future.

 He Is Not Afraid To Take Great Risks

When raising money for Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg took a series of significant risks. He shunned
major investors, cancelled meetings, and ignored important phone calls, just to drive up demand.
Eventually, he had twelve large investment companies clamoring to fund his site. While most people
would have been too scared of missing out on an opportunity, Zuckerberg and the rest of the
Facebook team believed in their product enough to wait it out.

He Learnt To Be Exclusive
When Facebook began it was only available to members of the top American colleges, Harvard, Yale,
Dartmouth etc. Students from other colleges all over the country soon wanted to be part of this
exclusive club. When major investors first heard about the project, they could not even access the
site because registration required a .edu email address.