Growing experience
one's early years
Mark Zuckerberg Zuckerberg was born in a Jewish family in new york (Zuckerberg is a German surname), but he calls himself an atheist. Zuckerberg started writing programs in middle school. In the 1990s, after his father taught him the basic programming of Atari, he hired David Newman, a software developer, as his mentor. Newman once said that Zuckerberg was a child prodigy.
When Zuckerberg was in high school, he had already taken classes at Kindness College near his home. Zuckerberg likes programming very much, especially communication tools and games. He also developed a software program called ZuckNet, which allowed his father to exchange information between home and the dentist's office. This system can even be regarded as the original version of American online real-time communication software.
According to the writer Jose Antonio Vargas, "Zuckerberg created children's computer games."
In Zuckerberg's high school days, he also created a music program called Synapse Media Player, and used artificial intelligence to learn users' habits of listening to music, and published it on Slashdot, which was rated as Samsung by the five stars of PC magazine. Both Microsoft and AOL wanted to recruit and train Zuckerberg, but Zuckerberg still chose to enter Harvard University in September 2002.
Harvard years
Mark zuckerberg In the Harvard era, Vargas called Zuckerberg a "programming prodigy". He studied psychology and computational science with his Jewish friend Alpha Epsilon Pi.
In the second grade, he developed a program called CourseMatch, which allows users to refer to the course selection according to the logic of other students' course selection. Some time later, he developed another different program called Facemash, which allowed students to choose the best-looking person from a pile of photos. According to Arie Hasit, Zuckerberg's roommate, "He did it just for fun". Hastert explained: "He has several books called Facebook, which contain students' names and photos. At first, he created a website and put two photos, or two photos of boys and two photos of girls. Visitors can choose which one is the most' spicy' and rank it according to the voting results. "
The competition lasted for a weekend, but on Monday morning, it was closed by the school. Because Harvard's servers were flooded, students were not allowed to enter the website. In addition, many students also reported that their photos were used without authorization. Zuckerberg publicly apologized for this and publicly stated in the school newspaper that "this is an inappropriate move."
However, Zuckerberg comes from this interesting website and has been asked by students to develop a campus website with photos and communication details. According to hassett's memory, "Mark was very happy after hearing the news and decided that if the school didn't do it, he would do it. He wanted to build a better station than the school.
Harvard dropout
Mark Zuckerberg)20 Zuckerberg, 20, was admitted to the famous Harvard University, but he was a dropout in the Department of Computer and Psychology.
In 2004, he created Facebook in the dormitory of Harvard University. In just a few years, this website quickly swept the world. Today, it has become one of the most important social networking sites in the world, and even politicians such as US President barack obama and Queen Elizabeth II have become Facebook users.
According to media reports, the market value of Facebook has reached $654.38+08 billion. Zuckerberg himself has become the youngest billionaire in the world because of this successful venture, and he is also one of the richest Americans who are most actively involved in charity.
Zuckerberg once said: "Some people wait until the end of their careers to give back (to society). But there are so many things to do now, why wait? Some of us may give back to the society in our early years and witness the impact of our charitable efforts. "
Zuckerberg announced a donation of more than $65,438 billion to help repair schools in Newark, New Jersey. This donation set a record for young Americans to donate to charity.
When the outside world mentions Zuckerberg, it will always compare him with Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, because they are both "bad students" who dropped out of Harvard University and started businesses on the Internet from scratch, thus affecting the whole world.
Entrepreneurial experience
On February 24th, 2004, mark zuckerberg founded Facebook in his Harvard dormitory. However, when he graduated from Phillips Exeter College in 2002, a student named "Photo Address Book" inspired him earlier. Students call it Facebook. This photo-centered website has greatly expanded the communication of many private school students, and students can list each other's basic data, such as class, school year, friends' preferences, telephone numbers and so on.
During his stay at Harvard, Zuckerberg was determined to start Facebook and got the support of his roommate dustin moskovitz. Their first wave of partners are Stanford University, Dartmouth College, Columbia University, new york University, Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, Brown University and Yale University.
After that, Zuckerberg and Moscovitz moved to Palo Alto, California with some friends. They converted a small house into an office, and later met sean parker, the co-founder of Napster * * *(Napster * * * invited him to live with them. One summer later, around the middle of 2004, Zuckerberg invited peter thiel to invest in his company through sean parker. According to Zuckerberg, although the team planned to go back to Harvard, they stayed in California in the end. They also turned down some people who wanted to buy Facebook. Zuckerberg explained the reason in an interview in 2007: "It's not the money. For me and my companions, the most important thing is to establish an open information channel between people. If the media company owns this ownership, it will not benefit me at all. "
In an interview with Wired magazine on 20 10, he said that he was still working for the same goal: "My biggest concern is how to make the world more open." In April 2009, Zuckerberg handed over Facebook's financial strategic planning to Peter Currie, the former chief financial officer of Netscape.
On July 2, 2065438, Kloc-0, Zuckerberg announced that his website had reached 500 million members. When asked about the future development strategy, he said: "If we look at the average advertising search rate of our website, the click rate is actually 65,438+00% of our website. But it is required to rise to 20%. ... it is not difficult to do, but we don't want to do it. We've earned enough. Indeed, what I want to say is that we are on the road we want to go. "
Vanity Fair magazine listed Zuckerberg as "the most influential person in the information age" in 20 10. Zuckerberg ranked 23rd in 2009. In 20 10, Zuckerberg was also selected by NSW *** an as the annual survey of the top 50 global influences 16.
201may 18, Facebook was officially listed on Nasdaq through initial public offering, raising1600 million dollars, making it the third largest IPO case in American history.
20 12 On May 20th, Zuckerberg announced on Facebook that he and his girlfriend (China's second generation Priscilla Chan) were officially married.
Zuckerberg 20 13 12 19, founder and chief operating officer of facebook(fb) Zuckerberg paid taxes in batches. According to foreign reports, Zuckerberg sold 465,438+0.4 million shares of facebook, involving 2.3 billion US dollars (about 65.438+78 billion Hong Kong dollars). After the transaction, Zuckerberg's voting shareholding ratio decreased from 58.8% to 566,5438+0%.
201510128, mark zuckerberg said in India that the Indian market is very important for Facebook to gain the "next billion" users. Zuckerberg said: "If you really have the mission of connecting everyone in the world, it is absolutely impossible not to develop new markets. We have the second largest community in India, and we hope that the next 654.38 billion people can access the Internet.
Major achievements
Website achievements
Mark zuckerberg's Facebook 20 10 has more than 400 million registered users, and the number of online users has also exceeded 100000. In 2009, it achieved normal operation for the first time, that is, it no longer needs to rely on venture capital to make a living, and the advertising revenue through the website has been able to maintain its own expenses. At this time, private equity trading shows that the market value of this online company has reached 654.38+0.5 billion US dollars.
Zuckerberg made it clear that he will definitely go public in the end, but he is not in a hurry to go public now. In the asset list published by Forbes 20 10, Zuckerberg became the youngest person to enter the list with $4 billion.
Facebook is a social networking service website, which was launched on February 4, 2004. From September 2006 to September 2007, the ranking of this website in the United States rose from 60th to 7th. At the same time, Facebook is the number one photo sharing website in the United States, uploading 8.5 million photos every day. As the number of users increases, Facebook's goal points to another area: Internet search.
On February, 2065438+2002 1 day, Facebook formally filed an initial public offering (IPO) application with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), with a target financing scale of US$ 5 billion, and appointed Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase as the lead underwriters. This is the largest IPO in the history of Silicon Valley.
2012 may 18, a historic day, Facebook, the world's largest social networking site, was officially listed. The initial public offering scale of Facebook has increased to about 4,265,438+0 million shares. At a price of $38 per share, Facebook surpassed Google and became the largest IPO in Silicon Valley. Zuckerberg, the founder who owns 28.4% of the company, is worth nearly $30 billion.
Personal realization
Mark zuckerberg was elected as Time Magazine's Person of the Year.
Rick Stangel, editor of Time magazine, announced mark zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, as the magazine's 20 10 person of the year on NBC's morning show.
Be named the best CEO
Mark zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, got the highest score in Glassdoor's most popular CEO ranking in 20 13. A survey shows that in the past year, the self-esteem of Facebook employees has also improved significantly, although Facebook's stock was as unstable as a roller coaster in May 20 12. Zuckerberg's satisfaction increased from 85% in 20 12 to 99% in 20 13.
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