An outline of Mark Zuckerberg's career that provides how he emerges himself as the youngest self made billionaire over time.

1. Career Of Mark Zuckerberg
Presented By:
Nayan Banik
Dept. of CSE
Comilla University

2. What’s Inside?
 Career
 Legal controversies
 Achievements
 Acquisition
 Philanthropy

3. Career
 Started two early works named ‘CourseMatch’
and ‘Facemash’.
 Launched theFacebook from his Harvard
dormitory room on February 4, 2004 with the help
of 4 friends Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum,
Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz.
 Rejected $10 million offer for theFacebook.
 Dropped out from Harvard to be dedicated to
thefacebook.
 It was then expanded to other Ivy League
universities.
 With his team moved in a small house in Palo

4. Career(Cont.)
 In august 2005, site changed its name to
Facebook after a suggestion from Sean Parker,
who became President of Facebook in 2004.
 MTV offered $75 million but he rejected the offer.
 Started new startup names wirehog.
 Spent $85000 of his own money to keep
Facebook servers running.
 Got $50000 investment from Peter Thiel.
 Agreed to take investment from Don Graham,
CEO of Washington Post.

5. Career(Cont.)
 Rejected $1.5 billion offer for Facebook from
Viacom.
 In 2006, Yahoo offered $1 billion but rejected as
well.
 Opened facebook up to anyone over age 13 in
2006.
 Rejected $15 billion offer from Microsoft.
 By 2007 the site had over 100,000 businesses
listing their companies on Facebook and creating
pages.
 Within five years it surpassed MySpace as the
leading social network website.

6. Career(Cont.)
 On May 18th 2012 Facebook made its IPO (initial
public offering), offering 421 million shares to private
investors at the price of $38.
 Two weeks after the IPO, the market price of the
shares fell dramatically by 27% to $27.72 per share.
 Price has recovered in 2013 and currently it’s around
$41.
 His net worth is estimated at $54.78 billion in
2016 and currently he is the CEO (Chief Executive
Officer) of the social company.
 Currently lives in the Palo Alto in a $7 million estate
that features 5 bedrooms a saltwater pool, and over
5,000 square feet of property.

7. Legal controversies
 ConnectU lawsuits
 Saverin lawsuit
 Pakistan criminal investigation
 Paul Ceglia
 Palestinian Terror Attacks
Divya Narendra Cameron Winklevoss,Tyler Winklevoss Eduardo Saverin

8. Achievements
 In 2007, named by the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) Technology Review's TR35 as one of the
top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.
 Campaign Media Awards 2007: Media Achiever of the
Year.
 Merriam-Webster names Facebook its No. 2 Word of the
Year for 2007.
 Fast Company named Facebook number “15” in its list of
the world's 50 most innovative companies of 2009.
 Time magazine has named him among the 100 wealthiest
and most influential people in the world as a part of its
Person of the Year distinction since 2010.
 Vanity Fair magazine named him number 1 on its 2010 list
of the Top 100 "most influential people of the Information
Age“.

9. Achievements(Cont.)
 In 2010, he was chosen as number 16 in New Statesman's
annual survey of the world's 50 most influential figures.
 At just 25 years of age, Mark even made it to the Forbes'
400 richest Americans’ list, temporarily giving him the title
of “WORLD’S YOUNGEST BILLIONAIRE”.
 In 2011, 'The Jerusalem Post', an Israeli newspaper,
named him the one of the 'Most Influential Jews'.
 In 2013 Became The CEO and Chairman of Facebook.Inc.
and was offered One Dollar as Salary.
 In December 2016, he was ranked 10th on Forbes list of
The World's Most Powerful People.
 The Chronicle of Philanthropy placed Zuckerberg and his
wife at the top of the magazine's annual list of 50 most
generous Americans for 2013.

10. Acquisition
 In April 2012, acquired mobile photo sharing app
Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock.
 In March 2014, Facebook closed the acquisition
of Oculus Rift for $2 billion.
 In October 2014, Mark Zuckerberg completed the
purchase of WhatsApp for $22 billion.
Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom
Palmer Freeman LuckeyBrian Acton and Jan Koum

11. Philanthropy
 Donated an undisclosed amount to Diaspora, an
open-source personal web server that
implements a distributed social networking
service.
 Founded the Start-up: Education foundation.
 On September 22, 2010, donated $100 million to
Newark Public Schools, the public school system
of Newark, New Jersey.
 On December 9, 2010, signed a promise called
"The Giving Pledge” along with Bill Gates, and
investor Warren Buffett.
 On December 19, 2013, announced a donation of

12. Philanthropy(Cont.)
 On April 11, 2013, led the launch of a lobbying
group called FWD.us.
 On February 13, 2013, hosted his first ever
fundraising event for New Jersey Governor Chris
Christie.
 In October 2014, he and his wife Priscilla Chan
donated $25 million to combat the ebola virus
disease in Africa.
 On December 1, 2015, Zuckerberg and Chan
pledged to donate 99% of their Facebook shares
to the ‘Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’ that will focus
on health and education.

13. Thank You 