Story of Mark Zuckerberg Behind facebook

Early Life

• Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York, into a well-educated family, and was raised in the nearby village of Dobbs Ferry. 

• Mark's father  Edward Zuckerberg, ran a dental practice attached to the family's home.

• Mark's mother, Karen, worked as a psychiatrist before the birth of the four children Mark, Randi, Donna and Arielle.

• Zuckerberg had an interest in computers from the early age when he was about 12, he used Atari BASIC to create a messaging program he named it "Zucknet." 

• Mark's father used the program in his dental office so that the receptionist could inform him of a new patient without yelling across the room. 

• And family also used Zucknet to communicate within the house. With his friends, he also created computer games just for fun.

• Mark's parents hired private computer tutor David Newman to come to the house once a week and work with Mark. 

• Newman later told that it was hard to stay ahead of the prodigy, who began taking graduate courses at nearby Mercy College around this same time.

• Zuckerberg later studied at Phillips Exeter Academy, its an exclusive preparatory school in New Hampshire. 

• There he showed talent in fencing, becoming the captain of the school's team. 

• He also performed well in literature, earning a diploma in classics. 

• Zuckerberg remained fascinated by computers and continued to work on developing new programs.

• While still in high school, he created an early version of the music software Pandora, which he called Synapse. Several companies including AOL and Microsoft expressed an interest in buying the software and hiring the teenager before graduation. He declined the offers.

At Harvard

• Zuckerberg got admission Harvard University.

• It was at that time that he built a program called CourseMatch, which helped students choose their classes based on the course selections of other users. 

• He also invented Facemash, which compared the pictures of two students on campus and allowed users to vote on which one was more attractive. The program became wildly popular but was later shut down by the school administration after it was deemed inappropriate.

• Based on the buzz of his previous projects, three of students Divya Narendra, and twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss sought him out to work on an idea for a social-networking site they called Harvard Connection. 

• This site was designed to use information from Harvard's student networks in order to create a dating site for the Harvard elite. 

• Zuckerberg agreed to help but soon started to work on his own social networking site with friends Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin.

• Zuckerberg and his friends created a site that allowed users to create their own profiles, upload photos, and communicate with other users. 

• The group ran the site first called The Facebook out of a dorm room at Harvard until June 2004. After his sophomore year, 

• Zuckerberg dropped out of college to commit himself to Facebook full time, moving the company to Palo Alto, California. By the end of 2004, Facebook had 1 million users.

The Facebook

• In 2005, Zuckerberg's enterprise received a huge boost from the venture capital firm Accel Partners.

• Accel invested $12.7 million into the network, which at the time was open only to ivy league students. 

• Zuckerberg's company then granted access to other colleges, high school, and international schools, pushing the site's membership to more than 5.5 million users by December 2005. 

• Then other companies were interested in the site, They wanted to advertize with the popular social Network. 

• Zuckerberg turned down offers from companies like Yahoo! and MTV Networks. Instead, he focused on expanding the site, opening up his project to outside developers and adding more features.

• In may, 2012 Facebook had its initial public offering.He personally negotiated the company deal to buy Instagram the previous month.