Entrepreneur
Mark Zuckerberg
Born in 1984, Mark Zuckerberg is an entrepreneur who, along with two of his fellow students, founded Facebook while still studying at Harvard. Facebook is a social website that is privately owned, and is used by its members to put up details about themselves through pictures and profiles. It is based on similar sites available to students at various universities. The intention of these sites is to allow students to become better acquainted with one another.
The Launching of Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg started programming while he was in high school and was happiest when devising programs for games and tools for communication. While in school he developed a program to help the workers in his father’s office communicate with each other. He also developed a music player that used artificial intelligence to learn users' listening habits. This was when he came to the attention of Microsoft and AOL. Both organizations tried to recruit him, while offering to buy up his developed music player software.
Mark Zuckerberg preferred to stay out of these corporations and opted instead to go to Harvard. His days at his previous school Philips Exeter Academy stayed with him and he got his idea for Facebook from the annual student directory that the Academy used to publish every year giving photos and profiles of all its student and faculty. This publication was also called "Facebook" and it inspired Zuckerberg to develop the idea as a social site meant only for his classmates at Harvard. The site was launched from his room in the college in the year 2004. Its popularity lead to other colleges asking for it. Mark Zuckerberg first allowed it to the colleges that had social contact with Harvard – like Stanford, Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell and Yale. Within months the social site spread to over forty-five schools and was being used by hundreds of thousands of people.
The Development of Facebook
Zuckerberg saw the need to incorporate his Facebook activities and set
Born in 1984, Mark Zuckerberg is an entrepreneur who, along with two of his fellow students, founded Facebook while still studying at Harvard. Facebook is a social website that is privately owned, and is used by its members to put up details about themselves through pictures and profiles. It is based on similar sites available to students at various universities. The intention of these sites is to allow students to become better acquainted with one another.
The Launching of Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg started programming while he was in high school and was happiest when devising programs for games and tools for communication. While in school he developed a program to help the workers in his father’s office communicate with each other. He also developed a music player that used artificial intelligence to learn users' listening habits. This was when he came to the attention of Microsoft and AOL. Both organizations tried to recruit him, while offering to buy up his developed music player software.
Mark Zuckerberg preferred to stay out of these corporations and opted instead to go to Harvard. His days at his previous school Philips Exeter Academy stayed with him and he got his idea for Facebook from the annual student directory that the Academy used to publish every year giving photos and profiles of all its student and faculty. This publication was also called "Facebook" and it inspired Zuckerberg to develop the idea as a social site meant only for his classmates at Harvard. The site was launched from his room in the college in the year 2004. Its popularity lead to other colleges asking for it. Mark Zuckerberg first allowed it to the colleges that had social contact with Harvard – like Stanford, Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell and Yale. Within months the social site spread to over forty-five schools and was being used by hundreds of thousands of people.
The Development of Facebook
Zuckerberg saw the need to incorporate his Facebook activities and set