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Mark Zuckerberg Childhood Biography

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984 and grew up in the

suburbs of New York, obbs !erry" #e was the second of four children and

the only son in the educated fa$ily" Mark%s father, Edward Zuckerberg, is a

dentist and $other, &aren Zuckerberg, is a psychiatrist" #is father owned a

dental practice ne't to the fa$ily house" Mark and his three sisters, (rielle,

)andi and onna were raised in obbs !erry, New York"


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Mark Zuckerberg Childhood

Mark got interested in progra$$ing yet in ele$entary school" *he fact that

the world is di+ided between progra$$ers and users, Mark found out when

he was 1 years old and got his first -. /uante' 480 on the 2ntel 480"

!ro$ Mark Zuckerberg biography we found out he was taught (tari 3(2.

-rogra$$ing by his father and when Mark was about 15, he used (tari

3(2. to create a $essenger, which he called 6ZuckNet7" 2t $ade all the

co$puters connected to each other and allowed to transfer $essages

between the house and dental office" #is father installed the $essenger on

his co$puter in his dentist office and the receptionist could infor$ hi$ when

a new patient arri+ed" Mark also enoyed de+eloping ga$es and

co$$unication tools and as he said he was doing it ust for fun" #is father,

Edward Zuckerberg, e+en hired a co$puter tutor a+id New$an who ga+e

his son so$e pri+ate lessons"


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(lso being at high school, Mark wrote an artificially intelligent $edia player

ynapse for M-:playlists that carefully studied the preferences of a user

and was able to generate playlists ;guessing%, which tracks user wants to

listen to right now" Microsoft and (ust like

that, Mark Zuckerberg refused fro$ do?ens, $aybe e+en hundreds of

thousands of dollars, and work in one of the top 2*:corporations"

oon Mark Zuckerberg studied at the (cade$y of -hillips E'eter, an

e'clusi+e preparatory school in New #a$pshire" #e showed good results

there in science and literature, recei+ing a degree in classics" #e also

showed a great talent in fencing and e+en beca$e the school captain of the

fencing tea$" Yet Mark Zuckerberg stayed fascinated by coding and wanted

to work on the de+elop$ent of new software"

2n 55, after graduating -hillips E'eter, Zuckerberg entered #ar+ard

@ni+ersity" 3y his second year at the 2+y =eague he had gained a reputation

as a software de+eloper on ca$pus" 2t was then when he wrote a progra$

.ourseMatch, which helped students choose their subects on the basis of

lists of courses fro$ other users"


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Mark Zuckerberg graduates Phillips Exeter Academy in 2002.

FaceMash A Fun Site for Voting

2n 5, once su$$er e+ening when Mark Zuckerberg suffered fro$

inso$nia in the #ar+ard dor$itory roo$, he got an idea to create a site

called !aceMash" Mark decided to hack the database of #ar+ard, where the

students uploaded their profile pictures" #e Auickly wrote a progra$ that

rando$ly selected two pictures of two rando$ fe$ale students and put the$

ne't to each other, asking 6Bho is hotterC7, gi+ing the option for +oting"

*he process was in full swing and site was +isited by $ost of the students in

#ar+ard" Bhen the nu$ber of +isitors e'ceeded the li$it, the ser+er crasheddue to o+erload" Mark appeared before the co$$ittee on co$puter hacking"


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interest in society" 3y the way, #ar+ard has refused to co$$ent on the

incident up till now"

The Rising of Facebook

Diya !arendra" Co#$ounded %arardConnection

(bout ten $onths before the Zuckerberg%s !aceMash epic, one of the

students of #ar+ard i+ya Narendra had already spoken with the idea of

creating a social network e'clusi+ely for #ar+ard students, $any of who$

were suffering fro$ e$otional stiffness" (nd not ha+e ;aliens% engaged into

the network, Narendra suggested using #ar+ard e$ail address as the $ain

userna$e"

i+ya Narendra%s partners were twins *yler and .a$eron Binkle+oss" *he

father of the Binkle+oss twins, #oward Binkle+oss, is a successful financial

consultant and put in his sons a lot of efforts and $oney so the proble$

with the initial capital for the future network could be sol+ed easily"

2n con+ersation with Mark Narendra said that the proect would be called

#ar+ard .onnection Flater rena$ed to .onnect@G, and its $e$bers will be


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posted to the 2nternet their photos, personal infor$ation and useful links"

*he tasks of Mark Zuckerberg included progra$$ing of the site and creating

a special source code, which would allow the syste$ to work as Auickly as

possible"

&yler 'inkleoss (le$t)" Cameron 'inkleoss (right). (* +tephen ,oekin)

(fter a pri+ate $eeting with Narendra and the Binkle+oss twins, Zuckerberg

agreed to oin in the work, but the potential of his new partners he

esti$ated it skeptically" Bhile working on #ar+ard .onnection he got a

fantastic idea about his own social network"


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&he-acebook.com in April 200

o$e ti$e later, the registration was opened to all students" *he $ain

condition was the a+ailability of an e$ail address in "edu ?one, which also

indicated a person%s belonging to education sector"

2t $ust be said that at first this tactic worked out nicely" *he proect

attracted audience attention of sufficient Auality" Bhen a user was trying to

sign up he had to fill out a detailed profile, and in addition to the e$ail

address in "edu ?one it was reAuested to add a real profile picture" 2f people

used a+atars instead of real pictures their profiles were deleted"

oon !acebook went beyond the education sector, beco$ing $ore and $ore

popular" Mark Zuckerberg started looking for in+estors" *he first in+est$ents

Mark recei+ed fro$ one of the founders of -ay-al, -eter *hiel, who is well

known throughout ilicon Jalley" -eter *hiel allocated KH, dollars and

that a$ount was sufficient for i$$ediate !acebook purposes" *he proect

began to e+ol+e rapidly" 2n less than a year after it was founded $ore than 1

$illion people oined the social network" !or further de+elop$ent of

!acebook they needed $ore in+est$ents" (ccel -artners in+ested in

!acebook K15"L $illion dollars and then reylock -artners added to this

a$ount K5L"H $illion dollars"

3y 5H, !acebook beca$e accessible for all educational institutions and

uni+ersities in the @(" Zuckerberg still belie+ed that his proect is a social

network for students, but the interest of users to !acebook grew

e'ponentially" *hen it was decided to $ake a registration accessible to the

public" (nd after this a !acebook ;epide$ic% started"
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-acebook logo

*he $ain thing that i$$ediately attracted users in !acebook, is that friends

who $eet in real life now could co$$unicate with each other online" 2t was

so$ething new"

!acebook audience grew rapidly, but the $oneti?ation of the proect still

re$ained unclear" E+eryone e'pected that the $ain instru$ent should be

conte't ad+ertising" *he fact is that e+ery !acebook user fills sufficiently

detailed profile, which can be used to show rele+ant ad+ertise$ents"


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(ccording to their testi$onies, Zuckerberg did not pro+ide the$ the results

of his work, but used the original source code to create !acebook"

2n the sa$e year, Narendra and the Binkle+oss twins launched their ownnetwork rena$ed to .onnect@" (nd they continued to attack on Mark

Zuckerberg, co$plaining #ar+ard ad$inistration and *he #ar+ard .ri$son

newspaper" 2nitially Zuckerberg urged ournalists not to publish the

in+estigation he showed the$ what supposedly he did for

#ar+ard.onnection, and e'plained that those de+elop$ents did not ha+e any

relation to !acebook" 3ut +ery inappropriately, another #ar+ard student

>ohn *ho$son in personal con+ersations started saying that Zuckerberg

stole one of his ideas for !acebook" *he newspaper decided to publish the

article and it offended Mark Zuckerberg +ery $uch"

!e/spaper clip $rom &he %arard Crimson article published on May 2" 200


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Zuckerberg took re+enge on *he #ar+ard .ri$son" (ccording to ilicon (lley

2nsider, in 54, he breaks the $ailbo'es of two ournalists fro$ *he

#ar+ard .ri$son, using the newly launched !acebook" #e found users who

were in+ol+ed in the newspaper and browsed their logs Fi"e" historyG of

incorrectly entered passwords in !acebook" Zuckerberg%s e'pectations were

$et two e$ployees of the newspaper absent$indedly tried to login

!acebook with passwords fro$ their $ailbo'es" ilicon (lley 2nsider wrote

that Zuckerberg got lucky he had a chance to read the correspondence

about hi$ between the editorial office and #ar+ard.onnection"

*he Binkle+oss twins and Narendra filed a lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg,

but the court reected their clai$" *hey were persistent and filed another

lawsuit" *his ti$e the court e'a$ined the code sources to understand

whether they were actually stolen" 3ut the truth was still not clear" *he

e'a$ination results were not announced" 2n 59, Zuckerberg agreed to pay

K4H $illion FK5 $illion in cash, and the re$aining a$ount in !acebook

sharesG .onnect@ as part of the court settle$ent" *he case was closed" 3y

that ti$e .onnect@ had less than 1, users, !acebook boasted about

1H $illion users"

*he Binkle+oss twins yet did not cal$ down and filed a petition in the @""

.ourt of (ppeals, but they were denied a retrial" (ccording to their lawyer

>ero$e !alk, the appellate court refused to take a re+iew of the case based

only on the parties% settle$ent agree$ent, which states that $e$bers of the

trial after the signing of the docu$ent does not ha+e the right to resu$e the

trial" 2n counsel%s +iew, the decision was illegal, as Mark Zuckerberg in a

proceeding in 58 pro+ided false infor$ation about the co$pany%s +alue"


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#owe+er, ates pro+ided a $aor -) ca$paign for !acebook worldwide" *his

is particularly i$portant for Microsoft, gi+en that it had an e'clusi+e

ad+ertising agree$ent with the social network until 511"

#o! Facebook Makes Money2n 51, the turno+er of !acebook, 2nc" reached KL"8L billion and net inco$e

K1"H billion" *he growth rates are also i$pressi+e three years turno+er

has increased si':fold"

3asis earnings of !acebook co$e fro$ conte'tual ads on the pages of social

network" rowing nu$ber of users and the ti$e they spend on the site is

con+erted into ad+ertising re+enues" 8HI percent of cash:flow that went

through the co$pany last year was earned through conte'tual ad+ertising"

Most of the rest 1HI are deductions fro$ purchases $ade through the

!acebook pay$ent syste$" *hese are $ostly not real, but +irtual goods" !or

e'a$ple seeds, fruits and +egetables, purchased by fans of the popular

ga$e !ar$+ille de+eloped by Zynga"

-arm4ille 5 popular game on -acebook deeloped by Zynga

espite the apparent fri+olity, +irtual goods is a serious business, and the

!acebook report confir$s that" *he co$pany esti$ates that in 51 the


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global $arket turno+er for +irtual goods reached KL billion, and by 514 it

rose to K1H billion"

(t the beginning of >anuary 51, !acebook 2nc" started testing the ser+iceof paid pri+ate $essaging" !acebook charges K1" for a pri+ate $essage

that you can send to the users who are not in your friend list" (nd the

$essage goes directly to their 2nbo' folder, instead of


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and &e+in ystro$" Now 2nstagra$ application is a+ailable on (ndroid


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'hatsApp Co#-ounders 1rian Acton (le$t) and :an 7oum (right)

Mark Zuckerberg* T%M+,s -./. 0erson of the 1ear

2n >anuary 51, *2ME $aga?ine na$ed !acebook founder, .E< and 50:year

old billionaire Mark Zuckerberg the -erson of the Year 51"

=ady aga, >a$es .a$eron and founder of Biki=eaks, >ulian (ssange, were

struggling for this title that year" #owe+er, *2ME $aga?ine chose his hero"

;*he social network created by Mark connected al$ost e+ery tenth person on

the planet%, )ichard tengel, *2ME editor:in:chief e'plained their choice"

(ccording to hi$, ;*oday, !acebook is the third largest country in the world

that knows about its citi?ens as $uch as no go+ern$ent on planet does"%


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Mark Zuckerberg named &6ME+3s person o$ the year 20;0

(ccording to *2ME, in the past year no one else had such great i$pact on

the world than the current winner" Mark%s popularity is so high that in 51

a+id !incher shot a $o+ie ;*he ocial Network% in which the $ain role of

!acebook founder was brilliantly played by >esse Eisenberg" -re+iously,

*2ME%s ;persons of the year% beca$e the @nited tates presidents 3ill .linton

and 3arack


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Mark Zuckerberg3s 'i$e Priscilla Chan


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