Mark Zuckerberg was born in 1984 in White Plains, New York. He studied computer science and psychology at Harvard where he created Facemash, a site comparing photos of students, and later TheFacebook which started as a Harvard-only social network. Zuckerberg expanded TheFacebook to other colleges with his friends and moved to California in 2004. Facebook gained popularity and users rapidly, reaching 500 million users by 2010. Zuckerberg remains CEO and Chairman of Facebook, which he has grown into a global social media platform with over 1.44 billion monthly active users.

1. MARK ZUCKERBERG
CO- FOUNDER , CHAIRMAN AND C..EO

2. EARLY LIFE
• MARK WAS BORN ON MAY 14TH 1984.
• HIS BIRTH PLACE WAS IN WHITE PLAINS,NEW YORK.
• ELDEST SON OF DENTIST EDWARD AND PSYCHIATRIST KEREN.
• HE BELIEVES IN BUDDISM.
• GRADUATED FROM ARDSLEY HIGH SCHOOL.
• STUDIED COMPUTER SCIENCE IN PSHYCOLOGY IN HARVARD.
• SPOUSE - PRISCILLA CHAN

3. INTERESTS
• HE LOVES SPEAKING VARIOUS LANGUAGES LIKE GREEK ,
LATIN , FRENCH , HEBREW.
• WAS CAPTAIN IN FENCING TEAM IN HIS SCHOOL DAYS
• INTERESTED IN GREEK ODYSSEYS
• INTERESTED IN DEVELOPING PROGRAMS

4. JOURNEY
• AS A CHILD , HIS FATHER TAUGHT HIM BASIC PROGRAMMING.
• HE DEVELOPED “ZUCKNET” THAT ALLOWED
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN HIS HOUSE AND HIS FATHER’S
DENTAL OFFICE.
• INTRODUCED “FACEMASH” TO SELECT THE BEST LOOKING
PERSON IN HIS COLLEGE .
• MARK ONCE SAID “WE HAD BOOKS CALLED FACE BOOKS
WHICH INCLUDED THE NAMES AND PICTURES OF EVERYONE
WHO LIVED IN THE STUDENT DORMS.”

5. • AT FIRST , HE BUILD A SITE AND PLACED PICTURES OF TWO
MALES OR PICTURES OF TWO FEMALES . VISITORS HAD TO
CHOOSE WHICH WAS GOOD , ACCORDING TO THE VOTES
THEY WOULD BE RANKING.
• THE SITE WENT UP OVER IN A WEEKEND.
• THE COLLEGE HAD TO SHUT DOWN THE NETWORK
SWITCHES TO PREVENT STUDENTS TO ACCESS INTERNET
BECAUSE OF MISSPROPER USE OF STUDENTS PICTURES.

7. DISCOVERY OF
• NEXT SEMESTER , ON JANUARY 2004 HE BEGAN WRITING A
CODE FOR NEW WEBSITE
• ON FEB 4TH , 2004 HE LAUNCHED “THE FACEBOOK”.
• ONCE AT COLLEGE MARK’S FACEBOOK STARTED OFF AS
JUST A HARVARD THING.
• HE TAUGHT OF SPREADING ABOUT FACEBOOK TO OTHER
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES ENLISTING THE HELP OF
ROOMATE DUSTIN MOSKOVITZ . THEY BEGAN WITH
COLUMBIA, NEW YORK BROWN AND YALE UNIVERSITY.

8. • HE MOVED TO CALIFORNIA WITH HIS FRIENDS
• WHERE HE LEASED A SMALL HOUSE THAT SERVED AS AN
OFFICE.
• THEN ,HE MET PETER THEIL WHO INVESTED IN THE
COMPANY .
• MARK GOT HIS FIRST OFFICE IN MID-2004.
• SLOWLY FACEBOOK GAINED MANY USERS.
• BY 2007, FACEBOOK HAS GAINED GLOBAL POPULARITY.

9. • ON MAY 24,2007 , ZUCKERBERG ANNOUNCED FACEBOOK PLATFORM
FOR PROGRAMMERS TO CREATE SOCIAL APPLICATIONS WITHIN
FACEBOOK.
• . VANITY FAIR MAGAZINE NAMED ZUCKERBERG NUMBER 1 ON ITS
2010 LIST OF THE TOP 100 ‘’INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE OF THE
INFORMATION AGE’’
• IN 2010 THERE WERE 500 MILLLION FACEBOOK USERS
• AT THE 2013 TECH CRUNCH DISRUPT CONFERENCE, HELD IN
SEPTEMBER, ZUCKERBERG STATED THAT HE WAS WORKING
TOWARDS REGISTERING THE 5 BILLON HUMANS WHO WERE NOT
CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET.

10. ACHIEVEMENTS
• IN 2010 THERE WERE 500 MILLLION FACEBOOK USERS.
• THE 2013, THIS SOFTWARE DEVELOPER BECAME THE CEO AND
CHAIRMAN OF THE FACEBOOK INC, THIS SUCESSFUL
ENTREPRENEUR HAS A NET WORTH OF 36 BILLION DOLLARS , AND
HAS REGULARLY FEATURED ON THE FORBES 400 LIST
• HE SHOT TO FAME WITH HIS SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE
‘FACEBOOK’ , WHICH HAVEREACHED OUT WIDELY TO THE PUBLIC,
THE SITE CURRENTLY HAS 1.44 BILLION MONTHLY USERS
• ON FEBRUARY 2014 FACEBOOK BROUGHT WHATS APP FOR US$16
MILLION

11. THANK YOU
DONE BY
MEGHNA REDDY
AND
AMENA BEGUM
MINA