Lesson Six This Generation Means Business

By Qiu Huilian

Founder & CEO of Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg

Forbes World’s Most Powerful People 20111.Barack Obama President of USA2.Vladimir Putin Prime Minister of Russia3. Hu Jintao chairman of China4. Angela Merkel Chancellor of Germany5. Bill Gates Co-Chair of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundat

ion 6. Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz King of Saudi Arabia 7. Pope Benedict XVI Pope of Roman Catholic Church 8. Ben Bernanke Chairman of the Federal Reserve USA9. Mark Zuckerberg Founder of facebook10. David Cameron Prime Minister of UK

Introduction of Mark Zuckerberg

• 马克 · 艾略特 · 扎克伯格（ Mark Elliot Zuckerberg ，1984 年 5 月 14 日 ~ ），在美国纽约州白原市长大。作为牙医和心理医生的儿子，扎克伯格从小就受到了良好的教育，从小就是个电脑神童 (genius) 。

• 在哈佛大学（ Harvard University ）读书时，他侵入了哈佛大学学生的照片数据库 , 他开发 (develop) 名为 Facemash 的程序 (program) 并建立了一个网站（ website ），让同学可以在一堆照片中选择最漂亮（ most attractive ）的人。

• 这个的竞赛进行了一个周末之久，但是到周一早晨，被校方关闭 (shut down) ，因为哈佛的服务器 (server) 被灌爆 (overwhelmed) ，因此不准学生进入这个网站。此外，很多学生也反应，他们的照片在未经授权下 (unauthorized) 被使用。

• 这件事件之后不久， Zuckerberg 就和两位室友一起，用了一星期 (a week) 时间写网站程序，建立了一个为哈佛同学提供互相联系（ contact ）平台的网站，命名为 the Facebook 。

• the Facebook 在 2004 年 2 月推出，即横扫整个哈佛校园 , 接着风靡（ popular ）美国和全世界。 Zuckerberg 干脆从哈佛退学 (drop out) ，全职营运网站。

Introduction of Mark Zuckerberg

Which school did Joe Lampson study at ?

What company did he start up?

Did he succeed at last?

Read the text and answer the following questions.

Stanford University.

He started up a software company.

Yes, he did.

Q1: What surprised Joe Lampson’s father?

Para One & Two

Q2: Why couldn’t Joe wait after his graduation ？

Because in software being first is everything.

Six months before graduation, Joe wanted to drop out of Stanford and start up a company.

drop out of 退学 start up 创办

Para Three

What problem did Joe want to solve by developing a program?

There was no easy way to calculate which supplier offered the best price while meeting all the customer’s needs.

calculate 计算 supplier 供应商

meet the needs of 满足。。。的需求

Para Four

Did bank finance Joe’s company? Why?

Joe’s confidence, banks would not his

company. Because his company

didn’t have managers or technicians.

In spite of + n: Although + sentence

In spite of Joe’s confidence= Although Joe was confident

In spite of finance

experienced

Para Five

Q1: What did Joe do since the bank didn’t finance him?

He turned to the great bank of his generation?

turn to 求助于Q2: What is the “great bank of his generation”?

A. The biggest bank in America.B. Credit cards.C. A bank in Stanford.

Para Five to Seven

Two years later

(Para.5)

Meanwhile

同时(Para.6)

Now

现在(Para.7)

35 credit cards

Half a million in debt

HP offered 3 million dollars

Orders from Fortune 500 companies flooded in

400 employees & income of 120 million

Find numbers !

寻找数字！

Joe wanted to drop out of school and started up a company

Banks would not finance him

Joe used 35 credit cards

Half a million in debt

HP offered him 3 million

Other fortune 500 companies flooded in

Now his company has an income of 120 million

These young Americans would rather have their own businesses than work in a big company or in a government office.

Discussion What do you think of Joe’s behavior ?

I think he was … hard-working confident

brave strong-willed

perseverant( 坚持不懈的

patient

drop out of 退学

start up 创办

calculate 计算

supplier 供应商

meet the needs of 满足…的需求

in spite of 尽管， 不顾

finance 资助

turn to 求助

in debt 负债

flood in 涌入

Read the passage again and finish the following exercises .1.Decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F). 

(1) Joe was studying at Stanford University when he decided to drop out.  (2) Joe agreed to wait six months until his graduation. (3) Joe wanted to develop a computer program that could help companies to work out easily which supplier offered the best price while meeting all the customer’s needs.  (4) The engineers tested Joe’s software and found that it was successful.  (5) The Hewlett-Packard company offered $120 million for the right to use the software that Joe had developed. 

T

FT

T

F

Homework

1.Finish Exercise book

Lesson 6

2.Prepare the lesson 7