FIGURE INSPIRATION - Biography of Mark Zuckerberg - Founder of Facebook

FIGURE INSPIRATION - Biography of Mark Zuckerberg - Founder of Facebook

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 a parent pair dentist - a psychiatrist. Since childhood, Zuckerberg likes tinkering with computers, try a variety of computer programs and learn to keep up. 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-ins are computer programs that can interact with host applications such as web browser or email for specific purposes.

Zuckerberg and D'Angelo makes a plug-in to raise the passions of various kinds of songs and then make a playlist of his suit their tastes. They send it to the program to various companies including AOL (American Online) and Microsoft. On his last year at Phillips he was recruited by Microsoft and AOL for a project.

When the school went to college they should split up. D'Angelo entered Caltech while Zuckerberg attended Harvard. Zuckerberg at Harvard found the idea of ​​making this book online directory of college students because the university did not share the face book (a book containing photographs of students and students at the university's identity) to the new students as a place of friendship between them. But every time he offered to create a directory, Harvard refused. "They say a reason for not collecting the information (student)," said Zuckerberg later.

Although he refused always looking for ways to make it happen. "I wanted to show that it can be done," he continued stubborn about making that directory.
His first project was CourseMatch (www.coursematch.com) which allows classmates to communicate with each other on the website. One night in his second year he enrolled at Harvard, Harvard students Zuckerberg sabotage of data and put it into a website he created called Facemash. A number of fellow student posted photos on it. Not to forget he put a sentence that asks visitors to determine which of these photos are the most "hot". Pancingannya hit. Within four hours since he launched the webiste it recorded 450 people visited the Facemash and 22,000 photographs they open. Harvard parties know it and even internet connection is disconnected. Sued Zuckerberg for stealing data. This curly-haired young man was apologizing to colleagues who entered her picture in Facemash. But he did not regret their actions it. "I think such information should be available (online)," he said.

Rather than give up he even made a new website with the name of Facebook (www.thefacebook.com). This website he launched in February 2004. Facebook is a refinement of Facemash. The goal remains as a place of meeting fellow Harvard students. In his explanation on the website now states that Facebook is a social tool to help people communicate more efficiently with colleagues, family, or coworkers. Facebook offers easy navigation for users. Each account owner has the space to hang his picture, his friends, network, and do other things like being able to send messages and so forth.

The number of applications that can be used by the members making up a lot of people loved. It is said that to date more than 20,000 applications have been put in Facebook that could be used by members. At least 140 new applications added to Facebook every day and 95% of owners have used the Facebook account of at least one application.

Inclusion of many of these applications make Facebook different from previous social networking websites like MySpace. Then people flocked to the website and sign up to be members. Within two weeks after its launch, half of Harvard students already have an account on Facebook. Harvard was not only students who are interested, some around the Harvard campus was asked be included in the Facebook network. This makes Zuckerberg overwhelmed. He then asked two friends to come help develop Facebook. Within four months Facebook has been able to encompass 30 campuses. Until the end of 2004 the number of Facebook users already reached one million.

Facebook users continues to increase. In fact there are a number of people who no longer a student or still at school wants to join. The high pressure makes Zuckerberg and his friends decided to open up a network for high school students (high school here) in September 2005. Soon, they also opened a network of office workers. This extraordinary busyness makes Zuckerberg will have to decide out of Harvard. "What I wanted was at hand. I do not want to have a diploma and then to work. In my opinion, work is only for people who are weak," he told the magazine Current.
Zuckerberg and his colleagues then developed even further up. In the September 2006 Facebook opened registration for the general networking has provided an email. Since then the number of members up shot.

When this number reaches 70 million active members worldwide. Dihimpunnya networks reach six million network (group of friends) covering 55 000 network based on demographics, work, school, collegial, and so forth. Every day there are 14 million photos are uploaded (put up). And in the number of traffic accessed the website Facebook has become the sixth most active in the world and become the second largest social networking website camScore version.

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The number of members up to millions of people it becomes a lucrative gold mine. Zuckerberg and his friends were caught great business opportunities. Therefore, when the number of its users exceeded one million they took Accel Partners, a venture capital company, to finance its development. Capital invested was U.S. $ 12.7 million. This is the second investment into Facebook after the previous (June 2004) a founder of PayPal and U.S. $ 500,000. The first improvements to the additional capital it is to replace it from the www domain. Thefacebook. corn into www.facebook.com in August 2005. After that its membership was expanded to international scope. Until December 2005 the number had reached 5.5 million members.

Although the number of users have increased sharply in 2005 mentioned Facebook suffered a loss of up to U.S. $ 3.63 million. Facebook then get a funding of U.S. $ 25 million from Greylock Partners and Meritech Capital Partners. The funds were used to launch its mobile version.

In the September 2007 Microsoft approached and offered to buy 5% stake worth about U.S. $ 300 million to U.S. $ 500 million. If it is approved then the value of Facebook has reached a market capitalization of U.S. $ 6 billion to U.S. $ 10 billion, or around Rp 54 trillion to Rp 90 trillion. However, Microsoft has finally announced just bought 1.6% stake in Facebook with a value of U.S. $ 240 million in October 2007. This transaction represents the value of Facebook was higher capitalization is around U.S. $ 15 billion (about U.S. $ 135 trillion).

After that a number of bids siege Facebook. Li Ka-shing joined menginvestasinya touted around U.S. $ 60 million in November 2007. Then there was news that says Viacom, Yahoo, Google, and so, too, offered to buy Facebook. So far Zackerberg said Facebook is not for sale.


Facebook makes business boom Zackerberg menampuk tremendous wealth. Forbes magazine says Zackerberg own wealth at U.S. $ 1.5 billion or about Rp 13.5 trillion. Let alone for the child's age Zackerberg, for adults as much as it was the property of an enormous amount. So naturally, if the magazine menobatkannya as `The Youngest Self-Made 'Billionaire on the Planet.
Zackerberg achievements do not really smooth. A number of cases she has received in connection with Facebook. Including from colleagues at Harvard who say the design is actually a clone of Facebook ConnectU. However Zackerberg budge that Facebook is the result of his work. Although ConnectU lost the first trial, the company is registering a new lawsuit in March 2008.

The controversy also came from countries like Myanmar, Bhutan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran and so forth which mentions that Facebook promotes attacks on government authority that access to Facebook in the country closed.

In the midst of some controversy, the name of Facebook and Mark Zackerberg still loved by many people. Zackerberg alone in the popularity of his name and the amount of assets held, he remains modest. He still lives in a rented apartment and the room is only available in a table and chairs. The mattress on the floor. When it comes to his office in Palo Alto, Zackerberg often walk or ride a bike. Not appear to be a millionaire (in U.S. $ dollars, of course) or a billionaire (in rupiah).

Record as the youngest billionaire Forbes, the business itself and not by inheritance, ever recorded in history. Her net worth of about a half billion U.S. dollars.
Early in 2009 Mark Zuckerberg was awarded the Young Global Leaders.



Age only 24 years old Mark Zuckerberg, but he could produce 1.5 billion U.S. dollars. The success of Facebook founder men, one of the leading social networking site in the world, this makes it perched in the ranks of the 400 richest people in America Forbes. Not only that, in the ranks of those he was also crowned as the youngest of the rich.

Facts - facts about Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg

- Facebook has more than 150 million enrollees
- The number of active users over 20 million
- Over half of college applicants are not Facebook
- The average user has 100 friends
- More than 3 million users become fans of something
- Number of photos in up-load more than 800 million monthly
- More than 5 million videos per month on up-load
- Other content (links, stories, blogs, cata
tan, etc.) that the share of more than 20 million monthly
- More than 2 million events created each month
- Facebook has been translated into 15 languages, there are still 60 other languages ​​are still in the process of translation
- More than 70 percent of Facebook users live outside the United
- Currently, there are more than 52 thousand applications ontuk Facebook
- New applications increased 140 per day
- About 95 percent of users use one application in Facebook

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2. Who are the founder and CEO of this facebook? He is a student of Harvard University and was a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi. Alpha Epsilon Pi is what? read this article.

3. Alpha Epsilon Pi is like the Jewish sororities in North America, which has a mission as follows,

Alpha Epsilon Pi, the Jewish Fraternity of North America, was founded to Provide opportunities for Jewish men seeking the best possible college and fraternity experience. We have maintained the integrity of our purpose by strengthening our ties to the Jewish community and serving as a link Between high school and career. Alpha Epsilon Pi develops leadership for the North American Jewish community at a critical time in a young man's life. Alpha Epsilon Pi's role is to Encourage the Jewish student to REMAIN dedicated to Jewish Ideals, values, and ethics and to prepare the student to be one of tomorrow's leaders so That he may help Himself, his family, his community, and his people.

The point is as a cadre and a place to find a new leader for his people, namely Jews.

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