3. The youngest Billionaire
The youngest Entrepreneur
The youngest Philanthropist
The youngest Computer
Programmer
4. INTRODUCTION
Mark Zuckerberg is the co-founder of facebook
along with his four colleagues Eduardo Saverien,
Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris
Hughes.
Born on May 14, 1984 (Age 30) in White Plains,
New York .
He is the youngest CEO of Facebook and he
himself holds 29.3% shares of Facebook approx.
($13.6 billion).
5. ‘Time Magazine’ has awarded Zuckerberg as
“Person of the year” and also named among the
100 wealthiest and most influential people in the
world.
His dad is a dentist and his mom is a
Psychiatrist
Mark can read and write in five different languages
including Hebrew, Latin, French, AncientGreek,
Chinese.
Mark consider himself as an atheist.
7. Mark is most probably to become the next Bill Gates.
Zuckerberg has a Net worth estimated US $25.3 billion
He was the youngest billionaire in the world at the age
of 25 .
The Co-founder ,CEO & President of Facebook does not
care about money. He denied a US$1 billion dollar
(Approx. Rs. 4500 Crores) offering to sell Facebook.
After that he explained and quoted that “FACEBOOK”
is his baby, he wants to keep running and keep growing it.
8. In real life, Mark is always shy and reserved
although he is trying to make the world a more
open by helping people connect and share.
9. Facebook is blue because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green
colorblind. Blue is the color he feels best; colour of
confidence and growth therefore, the predominant color
on all Facebook pages is blue.
Why facebook colour is blue?
10. FACEBOOK USERS AND POPULARITY
It has 1.28 Billion monthly active users (March 2014).
According to the Stats FACEBOOK has 53% female and
43% male users.
Every 60 seconds on Facebook: 510 comments are posted,
2,93,000 status’s are updated, and 1,36,000 photos are
uploaded
Facebook has over 6,818 employees ( March2014).
The age group that uses Facebook the most is 18-34
years.
11. Education & Social Life
Mark started his high school education at Ardsley High School in
New York, but he found that this school wasn’t challenging him
enough so he transferred to Phillips Exeter Academy, a boarding
school.
After graduating high school, he attended Harvard University but
dropped out after his sophomore year.
He also created a music program called Synapse, which used
artificial intelligence to learn about the user’s listening habits.
Because of Synapse, Microsoft and AOL tried to recruit Mark and
buy his program but he denied the offer.
12. Where did the name came from?
An actual facebook is a student directory that is
published by a Harvard University every year with
pictures of all students faculty and staff.
13. How it began and bumps
along the way
On October 28, 2003 Zuckerberg was blogging about a girl
who had dumped him when he got the idea to create
Facemash.
Facemash was a site which compares two people that
who is hot and who is not and which is decided by the
votes of the users.
Zuckerberg hacked into Harvard’s computer network to
obtain the pictures of students from the different dorm’s
online facebooks.
14. The site was shut down a few days later by the
Harvard administration and Zuckerberg faced
expulsion but the charges were dropped.
On February 4, 2004 Mark launched
(thefacebook.com)
Within 24 hours the site had between 12 to 15
hundred members.
Membership was originally restricted to only
Harvard students but gradually expanded to
most colleges in the US and Canada.
15. The company bought the domain name facebook
for $2,00,000 (Approx. 1,20,05,000.00 ) in 2005
dropping the “the” from the name.
On September 26, 2006 Facebook opened to
everyone over the age of 13 with a valid e-mail
address.
