Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 while attending Harvard University. Facebook began as a student directory but expanded to allow users to connect and share online. Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard after his sophomore year to focus on Facebook full-time. Under Zuckerberg's leadership, Facebook has grown to over 2 billion users worldwide and made Zuckerberg one of the richest entrepreneurs with a current net worth over $17 billion. Though successful, Zuckerberg remains focused on his vision of connecting the world and improving Facebook.

1. Mark
Zuckerberg
Facebook
Founder

2. CREATOR OF FACEBOOK

3. What is Facebook,
Anyway?
Facebook is a free online social networking
where friends, family and colleagues can
get to know one other better and expand
their social circle.

4. Facts about our
#1 Friend:
Mark Zuckerberg
 Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is the co-founder and
chief executive of Facebook. He holds 28.4%
shareholding of Facebook.
 Born on May 14, 1984 (Age 29) in White Plains,
New York to Edward and Karen Zuckerberg.
 Grew up in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
 Mark is from Jewish descent but consider
himself an atheist.
 His dad is a dentist and his mom is a doctor.
 Mark can both read and write in five languages.

5. Zuckerberg
Today
 Zuckerberg has a net worth of
$17.5 billion.
 He is the youngest billionaire in
the world at the age of 25 .
 The co-founder CEO & President of
Facebook does not care about money.
He denied a 1 billion dollar offering to
sell Facebook. This is his baby, he
wants to keep running and keep
growing it.

6.  Mark is most probably to become the next Bill Gates.

7.  In real life, Mark is always
shy and reserved although
he is trying to make the
world a more open by
helping people connect and
share.
 As you can see Mark
wears rubber sandals to
Board Meetings.

8.  Facebook is blue because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind. Blue is the
color he see best; therefore, the chosen color on all Facebook pages is blue.

9. Education & Social
Life
 Mark started his high school education at Ardsley High School in Ardsley, New York, but he
found that this school wasn’t challenging him enough so he transferred to Phillips Exeter
Academy, a boarding school in Exeter, New Hampshire
 After graduating high school, he attended Harvard University but dropped out after his
sophomore year.
 Started programming in middle school and he was very interested in creating
communication programs and games.
 He also created a music program called Synapse, which used artificial intelligence to learn
about the user’s listening habits.
 Because of Synapse, Microsoft and AOL tried to recruit Mark and buy his program but he
decided to go to Harvard instead.

10. Where did the name come
from?
 An actual facebook is a student directory that is published by a school every year
with pictures of all students faculty and staff.
 These facebooks were a very common thing among most colleges and prep
schools.

11. How it began and bumps
along the way
On October 28, 2003 Zuckerberg was blogging about a girl who had
dumped him when he got the idea to create Facemash.

 Facemash was a version of Harvard application. It compared two people
and the users voted on which one was “BEST”
 Zuckerberg hacked into Harvard’s computer network to obtain the
pictures of students from the different dorm’s online facebooks.
 The site was shut down a few days later by the Harvard administration
and Zuckerberg faced expulsion but the charges were dropped.

12.  Later that semester he expanded on his initial site by uploading images
for an art history final and allowing comments on the images so the
students could share their notes. The professor said it had the best grades
of any final he had ever given.
On February 4, 2004 he launched thefacebook.com
 Within 24 hours the site had between 12 and 15 hundred members.
 Membership was originally restricted to Harvard students but gradually
expanded to most colleges in the US and Canada.
 In 2004 the company incorporated and moved to Palo Alto, California.
Sean Parker, who had been advising Zuckerberg became the company’s
president.

13. The company bought the domain name facebook for $200,000 in 2005
dropping the “the” from the name.

 On September 26, 2006 Facebook opened to everyone over the age of 13
with a valid e-mail address.
Soon after facebook was first created, three Harvard seniors accused
Zuckerberg of stealing their idea for the site. Their site was going to be
called HarvardConnection.com.
 Zuckerberg had originally planned to help them with their site but he
already had facebook in the works when they wanted him to make
HarvardConnection.
 A few month after thefacebook.com was launched they launched their site
which they called ConnectU instead of HarvardConnection.

14. Interesting Facts
 Microsoft wanted to invest in Facebook but was originally turned down. Now they own
1.6% of the company’s shares
 Facebook has over 3000 + full time employees.
 On November 30, 2007 the 11th richest man in the world, Li Ka-shing, invested $60
million dollars in the company.
Over 1 billion photos and 10 million videos are uploaded to Facebook each month.
 The age group that uses Facebook the most is 18-34 years.
Zuckerberg donated $100 million to the Newark, New Jersey school system on September
22, 2010. This event was reported in The Social Network movie.

15. THANK YOU