Mark Zuckerberg

A Multi millionaire who

created Facebook
Michael Plasmeier and
Chris Mullen
 Early Life
• He was born in a Jewish Family.
• Born and raised in Dobbs Ferry, NY
• Attended Ardsley High School and the
Phillips Exeter Academy (boarding school)
• Recruited by Microsoft and AOL in his
senior year
• But choose to go to Harvard
 Life In 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
 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
 Time Of Business
Getting 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
 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
 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
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
 Successful
Characteristics
Empowered Mark
• MotivatedZuckerberg
• Has technical experience
• Determined
• Creative
• Persistent
 A little facts
Summarising on
Mark Zuckerberg
• Born May 14th, 1984. He is 26
years old

• He went to Harvard, but then

dropped out to make
Facebook, and in my opinion
that was a great idea,
because he is so rich.

• He started Facebook in 2004.

• Mark Zuckerberg is still alive,
and is always making new
changes to Facebook.
 Facts about
Facebook
• No you can not buy shares in
SMG of Facebook.

• 175 million people use

Facebook Every day.

• On Facebook you can play

games.

• Facebook is almost at 500

million users, and by the rate
it’s rising , it’s going to reach
this goal in the summer of
2010.
 Mark
Zuckerberg are so
• Mark Zuckerberg took a
successful
big risk because he
dropped out of college, to
start Facebook. If
Facebook was not as
successful as it is, he
might of regretted that
decision.
• Kids like talking, and
playing games, and
Facebook is just the thing
for us kids.
 How is Facebook the
first of
• Facebook is the first
it’s kind
website that is
meant for kids, and
young adults to
keep in touch with
their friends, and
talk when ever they
want to.
 What other business benefit from
this business
• One business that
benefits is Chelsea
the soccer team,
because they have
ads on Facebook,
and Apple have the I
pad ads on Facebook
as well.
MARK ZUCKERBERG GOALS
ANDS AIMS IN HIS OWN
CARICATURE
 The End!
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