Mark Zuckerberg: The Inventor of Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg is the person who founded Facebook "No. 1 social networking site In the World", Facebook was founded as a private company in 2004 by Zuckerberg and his classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while a student at Harvard University.

Mark Zuckerberg was born in White Plains, New York -
in 1984. The second child of 4 siblings of the couple Karen and Edward Zuckerberg. Mark and his three sisters (Randi, Donna, and Arielle) grew up in Dobbs Ferry, New York as a Jew even though he has established himself as an atheist. Sinc-e childhood Mark likes to tamper with computers, wear, and learn to make various computer programs.

-Story and Origin Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook

    Mark Zuckerberg Adalah Seorang Mahasiswa Di Harvard find the idea of ​​creating an online student directory book because his university does not distribute face books (student list books containing photographs and student identities at the university) For new students as a place of friendship between them. And the first project is CourseMatch (www.coursematch.com) that allows his classmates to communicate with each other on the website.

    One night in Zuckerberg's second year of college at Harvard, Zuckerberg hacked Harvard student data into his website called Facemash. Several photographs of his colleagues were there. and in the photographs Mark makes sentences that ask website visitors To determine which of these photos are most "hot" (Photos Harvard Student).Within a few hours since he launched this website recorded 450 people visited Facemash and as many as 22,000 photos they open and make the internet network at Harvard paralyzed. Harvard parties know it and the internet connection was decided. After the incident Mark in the trial because it is considered stealing data from other students. then Mark apologizes to the colleagues whose photo enters at Facemash.

-Facebook Site Launch

    After being Pronounced For making the Website Facemash, Mark re-create a new website with the name up (www.thefacebook.com). The website launched Mark from Harvard's dorm room in February 2004 with his classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes. Facebook is a refinement of Facemash and serves as a social site that allows users to connect with friends and other facebook users.

-Facebook Project Development

    Initially Facebook was just a social Web site between fellow classmates at Harvard University, but after he created the Website, it turned out that more and more people joined in it until finally Zuckerberg decided to spread to other schools. They first developed websites at Stanford, Dartmouth, Columbia , New York University, Cornell, Brown, and Yale, and later at another school that has social contact with Harvard University.

Due to the busyness and preoccupation in developing the Facebook project, Zuckerberg and his friends are faced with a difficult choice between choosing his education or the project business he is developing. With an optimistic attitude Zuckerberg and his friends chose to leave their college, and focus on the Facebook project.

Zuckerberg moved to Palo Alto, California, with some friends. They rented a small house that served as an office. During the summer, Zuckerberg met Peter Thiel who invested in the company. They got their first office in mid 2004.

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Within five months of the month Facebook has been able to capture 30 campuses. Until the end of 2004 the number of Facebook users has reached one million. Facebook users continue to increase. Zuckerberg and his friends decided to open up a network for high school students.

In September 2005 they also opened a network of office workers. then Zuckerberg and his friends developed Facebook even further. In September 2006 Facebook opened registration for the public with the terms of having an email. Since then the number of Facebook members shot.

The number of Facebook members that millions of people into a lucrative gold mine. Zuckerberg and his friends also grabbed a great business opportunity. Therefore when the number of users exceeded one million they took Accel Partners, a venture capital company, to finance its development.

The invested capital amounted to US $ 12.7 million. This is the second investment that goes into Facebook after the previous one (June 2004). with additional capital it is clearly easier for Mark and his friends to develop Facebook and change its domain from www.thefacebook.com to www.facebook.com. After that the range of facebook membership expanded into international.

    Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire he got for his own efforts and not because of the inheritance, which has ever been recorded in history. His success as the founder of Facebook, one of the world's leading social networking sites and make him crowned as the youngest of the world's richest.