Mark Zuckerberg was born in 1984 in New York. He began programming at a young age and attended Harvard University, where he created Facemash and a predecessor to Facebook. After moving to California, he launched Facebook from his dorm room in 2004. Facebook grew rapidly and by 2010 had over 500 million users worldwide, making Zuckerberg one of the youngest billionaires ever. He has since been involved in several legal disputes regarding Facebook's creation and profits.

1. BY: Pulkit Bordia
BBA 2nd sem.

2. Who is he??
 Born on May 14th, 1984;
 He is the chairman and
chief executive;
 He is the world's youngest
billionaire;
 He was named "Man of
the Year" by Time
magazine in 2010.

3. Biography New York state;
 He began with BASIC,
with help from his
father and a tutor;
 High school: classic
literature and fencing;
 Attended Harvard
University, majoring in
computer science and
psychology;

5. Biography Moved to Palo Alto,
California;
 By 2007,
Zuckerberg was a
billionaire at the
age of 23;
 By 2010, facebook
had an estimated
500 million users
worldwide.

6. Biography Zuckerberg has since
been involved in various
legal disputes initiated
by others who have
claimed a share of the
company’s profits due to
their help in setting it
up.

7. Biography The 100 wealthiest
and most influential
people in the world;
 In 2010 a fictionalized
account of
Zuckerberg creating
Facebook while in
college and its later
start - up phase was
made into a movie
dramatization, The
Social Network.

9. Harvard
 Harvard did not distribute a student directory
 He hacked into the school’s records and put up
Facemash which was similar to Hot or Not
 He got into a lot of trouble from the admins
 Still it was the precursor to Facebook

10. Art History Class
 2 days before an art history final he realized he didn’t
know the 500 images he was suppose to
 He set up a site and put the images online
 All of his classmates commented on the images and
they all had the notes for the class

11. Business Started
 He tried his face book concept again with
thefacebook.com (Feb 4, 2004)
 This time it was voluntary
 Within 2 weeks half of Harvard had signed up
 Within a few months it has spread to other universities

12. Early Years of Business
 At the end of Sophmore year Mark moved out to Palo
Alto into a rented apartment near Stanford
 He ran into and roomed with Napster co-founder Sean
Parker who introduced him to the ways of the Valley
 Parker introduced Mark to Facebook’s first major
investor PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel

13. Growth and Success
 Mark decided to leave Harvard and work on Facebook
full time
 The moved around from office to office just barley
getting by
 By fall 2005, they received $12.7 million more financing
and had 5 million monthly active users

14. Making Money
 Advertising
 Sponsorships
 Sometimes misguided attempts like the Facebook
Beacon
 Or “social advertising” – Are being sued for using
someone’s name in an ad

16. Successful Characteristics
 Motivated
 Has technical experience
 Determined
 Creative
 Persistent