the story of the richest young people in the world - mark zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born in the area called Dobbs Ferry, Westchester County, the city of New York.Anak of Edward and Karen Zuckerberg. He was the second of four children of parents dentist couple - psychiatrist. Since childhood, Zuckerberg likes tinkering with computers, computer programs and trying to learn him. His father bought him a computer since he was eight years old. While in high school Phillips Exeter Academy, he and his partner, D'Angelo, create plug-ins for Winamp MP3 player. Plug-in is a computer program that can interact with the host application such as a web browser or email for a particular purpose.

Zuckerberg and D'Angelo makes a plug-in to gather preferences of people towards various types of songs and then make his playlist suit their tastes. They sent it to the program to a variety of companies including AOL (American Online) and Microsoft. In his last year at Phillips he was recruited by Microsoft and AOL for a project.

Currently the school went to college they should be separated. D'Angelo entered Caltech while Zuckerberg entered Harvard. In this Harvard Zuckerberg found the idea of making books online student directory because the university did not share the face book (a book containing photographs and student in the university's student ID) at the new student as a forum of friendship between them. But every time he volunteered to make the directory, Harvard refused. "They said they have reason not to collect information (student)," said Zuckerberg then. 

Though denied he was always looking for ways to make it happen. "I wanted to show that it can be done," he continued stubborn about making the directory.

CourseMatch first project is (www.coursematch.com) that allows classmates to communicate with each other on the website. One night in his second year at Harvard, Harvard student Zuckerberg sabotage of data and put it into a website he created called Facemash. Some photos fellow student posted there. Not to forget he put a sentence that asks patrons to determine which of these pictures are the most "hot". Pancingannya hit. Within four hours since he launched the webiste it recorded 450 people visited by 22,000 photos Facemash and they're open. Harvard parties know it and the internet connection was disconnected. Sued Zuckerberg for stealing data. This curly-haired young man also apologized to colleagues whose pictures go on Facemash. But he did not regret his actions. "I think such information should be available (online)," he said.

facebook

Founder and Objectives

Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room on February 4, 2004. An early inspiration Facebook may have come from Phillips Exeter Academy, a private high school in which Zuckerberg graduated in 2002. It published its own student directory, a book that forces the students referred to as "The Facebook". Such photo directories were an important part of social experience for most students in private schools. With this, students can enroll in a variety of things such as force, their closeness to friends, and their telephone numbers.

After college, Facebook started from just a "Harvard stuff" until Zuckerberg decided to spread to other schools, register with the help of roommate Dustin Moskovitz. They first started at Stanford, Dartmouth, Columbia, New York University, Cornell, Brown, and Yale, and then at other schools that had social contacts with Harvard University.

Zuckerberg moved to Palo Alto, California, with Moskovitz and 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. According to Zuckerberg, they planned to return to Harvard but eventually decided to remain in California. They have been rejected by a large company that will buy Facebook. In an interview in 2007, Zuckerberg explained his reasoning:

It's not about the money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. The company is owned by media conglomerates is just not an interesting idea for me. He revisits the same goals to Wired magazine in 2010: "What I care about is the mission, making the world open." Earlier, in April 2009, Zuckerberg sought the advice of former Netscape CFO Peter Currie about financing strategies for Facebook.

On July 21, 2010, Zuckerberg reported that the company reached 500 million users. When asked if he could get more income from advertising as a result of its phenomenal growth, he explained: I guess we could ... If you look at how many pages were taken for serving ads compared to the average search query. The average for us is a little less than 10 percent of the pages and the average for search is about 20 percent taken up with ads. That's the simple things we could do. But we did not like it. We make enough money. Right, I mean, we are keeping things running, we are growing at the rate we want.


wealth mark zuckerberg

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apparently known to have more wealth than the founders of Google. According to the annual list released by Forbes magazine, Zuckerberg victory over duo Google boss is for the first time.

surge experienced Zuckerberg position very much. Where previously he was at number 35 last year, now he is in position 14 with a personal net worth reached $ 17.7 billion.

 positions Zuckerberg is just below Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who has a wealth of USD 19.2 billion. Quoted detikINET from Mashable, Friday (23/09/2011), the founder of Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page each have a wealth of $ 16.7 billion, putting them both in the top 15.

tech billionaires So anyone who is on the list "Richest People in America" is? Microsoft founder Bill Gates was still perched on the top, and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison at number 3.

Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs himself was pretty much in position 39, then there was Michael Dell (18), Steve Ballmer (19), Paul Allen ( 23), the founder of eBay, Pierre Omidyar (50), Eric Schmidt (51), George Lucas (107) and Mark Cuban (171).


now own the number of employees has reached 400 people. However, Facebook is a unique company. executives and top brass are young, between 24 years-37 years. The headquarters of Facebook more like a dormitory. The employees, who every day gets a free meal rations, working while doing her favorite activity. There are playing guitar, biking, playing airplane controls, or a mixture of rock music accompanied by disc jockey (DJ). They also do not need to be well-dressed. Shorts and flip-flops are their favorite costume in the office. Zuckerberg admitted averse office atmosphere that is too formal.

Though already able to accumulate assets to U.S. $ 3 billion, Zuckerberg still appear as it is, like most young men who enjoyed casual wear.