Mark Zuckerberg Biography

MARK ZUCKERBERG
A. BIOGRAPHY
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York, into a well-
educated and wealthy family, and grew up in the nearby town of Dobbs Ferry. His father,
Edward Zuckerberg , was a dentist and his mother, Karen , worked as a psychiatrist
before the birth of the couple's three other children: Randi, Donna and Arielle raised in a
Jewish family.
Mark developed an interest in computers at an early age. When he was twelve years old,
he used Atari BASIC to create a messaging program called “Zucknet.” His father used the
program in his dental office so the receptionist could inform him of a new patient's arrival
without shouting across the room. The family also used Zucknet to communicate within
the house. Together with his friends, Mark created computer games just for fun.
His parents saw that the young man needed a higher quality education, so they took him
to the exclusive private school Phillips Exeter Academy, in New Hampshire, where thanks
to his good performance and love of numbers he won prizes in mathematics, astronomy
and physics and classical studies. One of the things he enjoyed most was attending the
Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth summer camp, this was a key place where
Zuckerberg could unleash his imagination, curiosity and ingenuity. Zuckerberg knew how
to read and write French, Hebrew, Latin and ancient Greek.
In 2003 he entered Harvard University and there he would continue and deepen the
creation of different programs. Before finding the popular Facebook, Zuckerberg
developed Coursematch, a page that facilitated access to the list of classmates from other
classes, and Facemash, which allowed university students to grade. It should be noted
that such issues brought Mark a lot of trouble with the university authorities for violating
computer security.
Still at Harvard University, in 2004, Zuckerberg created Facebook with the support of the
Computer Science professor and his roommates Eduardo Saverin, Chris Hughes and
Dustin Moskovitz.
We must mention that Facebook emerged with the initial intention of creating a
connection network between students at Harvard University. The name of the website
was inspired from a newsletter that many universities give to their new students so that
they can meet other students within the center.
Mark made it a priority that Facebook allowed him to add friends, with whom he could
exchange photos and messages, and create groups of friends. Each user had a wall to
allow friends to write messages. Then several modifications were made to the website.
In a short time, Facebook became viral and very popular among university students. The
young man had to leave university because Facebook needed his full attention.
In 2006, Facebook had become a global phenomenon; in countries like Canada, the
United Kingdom and the United States alone, it had about 64 million users. This is also
because Facebook was only available in English.
By 2008, Facebook diversified and embraced several languages, including French,
German, and Spanish. After that, its popularity and users grew like wildfire.
In 2008, Zuckerberg was among the 1,125 richest men in the world according to Forbes.
And also one of the youngest wealthy. Its offices in 2008 already occupied four buildings
and had about 400 employees; Both Viacom and Yahoo! were interested in buying shares
in Facebook . Currently, he appears on Forbes magazine's list of billionaires, with a
fortune valued at US$63.3 billion, ranking number five among the richest in the world.
Mark married Priscila Chan, a young woman from China, who studied at Harvard. They
had two children, Máxima Zuckerberg and August Chan Zuckerberg.
B. CHARACTERISTICS OF LEADER MARK
 Passion
One of the things that stands out the most in any highly effective leader is passion.
As I mentioned at the beginning of this article, being a leader is not the same as
exercising authority and business is not the same as making money. A great leader
knows that the greatest driver of success is passion: for the company, for the
product, for the people and for the difference that this makes possible in the
world.
 Purpose
Every great company and leader has a clear purpose, in which they involve their
employees, suppliers, customers and investors. Anyone related to the company
knows perfectly well what and what the company is for.
 Mission
This translates into the company's mission, the core statement of why we do the
work we do. In the case of Facebook, the mission is: Give people the power to
share and make the world a more open and connected place. What is your
mission?
 People
Every great leader knows that he will not be able to achieve the mission alone.
This requires the commitment, creativity and effort of people, something that is
only gained if they believe in you, in addition to being really happy and convinced
of working on the purpose and mission of the company.
 Product
There is no doubt that building a great company has an undeniable tangible: an
extraordinary product or service. Social leadership is not at odds with rigor and
operational discipline, which demand greatness from people and are intolerant of
inefficiencies (not errors).
 Collaboration
Finally, to be successful in any large project, collaboration is necessary, which is
based on respect, trust, responsibility and dialogue.
 Ambition.
It was the main component to stand out from his contemporaries at Harvard
University. In principle, he did everything to connect with women, as he
confessed. But then he saw there an opportunity for money, social respect and
knowledge.
"Ambition is necessary to succeed. The challenge is managing the emotions

around it. When the Winklevoss twins hired Mark to build their social network, he
never revealed to them that he had ambitions to build his own," TechCrunch says,
according to Infobae.
 Vision.
Knowing how to anticipate what others need is a fundamental condition for being
a pioneer.
His Facebook became the largest directory of people and revolutionized the way
humans connect, not to mention the change it meant in the information landscape
of users.
C. ACHIEVEMENTS ACHIEVED BY MARCK:
 He is the CEO of the most used social network in the world with around 1.2 billion
users.
 His fortune has grown in six years from $1.5 billion to $28.5 billion.
 The youngest to be named “Person of the Year” by TIME magazine in 2010 at the
age of 26, since Charles Lindbergh, 25, was named in 1927.
 In 2010 he became the youngest member of the California Hall of Fame.
 Vanity Fair named him number one on “The 100 Most Influential People in the
Information Age” in 2010.
 He was considered the largest philanthropist of 2013 by donating $900 million in
stock to three US charities.
 In 2013 he was chosen as “The best boss in the world” by Forbes magazine with
99% approval from his employees; more than any other.
 With Facebook, he managed to create a system for collecting data, personal
information and user tastes segmented by sex, age, location, and language that
has changed the way the advertising market is approached.
 It owns the most used applications in its category. Social networks: Facebook with
more than 1.3 billion users. Messaging services: WhatsApp with more than 500
million users. Photography editors: Instagram with more than 200 million users.
 He became the highest-paid CEO in history with a salary of more than two billion
dollars according to the analysis firm GMI Ratings.
D. FAMOUS PHRASES:
 Ideas have to take shape. They become reality as you work on them. Just get
going. An essential key to any project: the path is done by walking.
 Motivation is thinking that we are part of something bigger, that we are

necessary, that we have a goal to work towards. Motivation is what makes us
really happy.
 The most important successes are achieved when there is the possibility of failure.
Otherwise, we would not discover the joy of overcoming doubts and obstacles.
Goals are essential to moving toward happiness.

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MARK ZUCKERBERG

B. CHARACTERISTICS OF LEADER MARK

"Ambition is necessary to succeed. The challenge is managing the emotions

C. ACHIEVEMENTS ACHIEVED BY MARCK:

 Motivation is thinking that we are part of something bigger, that we are

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