A. Attention getter: Imagine that you are sitting in your dorm room with a group of friend creating a social network site for Texas State. All of a sudden your network goes viral across the world and you have companies willing to buy your site for millions of dollars. This may sound unrealistic, but this was reality for Mark Zuckerberg.
B. Relevance: By inventing Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has created a social gateway that has enhanced the way we communicate with others across the globe.
Mark Zuckerberg was a programming prodigy who became the Chairman and CEO Founder of Facebook.
1. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York. Mark was raised in a well-educated family where his father Edward Zuckerberg, is a dentist and his mother Karen Zuckerberg, is a psychiatrist. Mark is the second oldest out of his three sisters, Arielle, Randi, and Donna and they all grew up in the suburbs of Dobbs Ferry, New York.
2. Mark developed an interest in programming in Elementatary School. At the age of 10, he received his first PC Quantex 486DX. In the 1990s, Mark’s father Edward began to teach Mark the Atari Basic Programming language which he later used to create a messaging program he called "Zucknet"(Bio true story). Edward became so dedicated to his son's learning that he hired software developer David Newman to give Mark private lessons in computers (About us.com).
3. During his high school years, Mark attended Phillips Exeter Academy. At this exclusive preparatory school, Mark excelled in becoming captain of the fencing team, science, and earned a degree in classical studies (Astrum people). However, Mark remained fascinated on computers and created a music software program called Synapse, which caught the ey...
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1. Earnings of Facebook come from contextual ads. Facebook ads cost between 5 cents to 5 dollars per click (How does Facebook make its money). Last year, 85% of cash flow was earned through contextual ads (Astrum People). In addition, in May 2012 Facebook became the biggest Internet IPO in history, raising at $16 billion dollars (Mark Zuckerberg Biography).
2. Also, on May 19, 2012 Mark Zuckerberg married his college sweetheart Priscilla Chan the day after the Facebook IPO (Mark Zuckerberg Biography). According to Politico, many of the guests were surprised because they thought they would be attending a party to celebrate Chan’s graduation from medical school.
3. Facebook made the Fortune 500 list for the first time in May 2013. This made Zuckerberg the youngest CEO on the list at the age of 28 (Mark Zuckerberg Biography). Mark is
Born in 1981 and hailing from Niagara Falls, Canada, even as a young kid, he was intrigued by computers and electronics, taking enjoyment in disassembling and rebuilding things such as toasters and televisions, which his grandmother would bring him to play with (Liss, 2011). He had an interest for computers, using his mothers work computer to practice coding and hacking.
Now very few know the origins of this billionaire, and many wonder how he got to where he was. Born July 31st, 1958 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania into a middle class family where his father worked in a car upholstery shop and his grandfather made money by selling things out of his truck, Mark Cuban decided to follow in his grandfather’s
saw the future demands of the computer industry. He was able to build a personal
...dual that started the social networking website, Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg, who was born on “May 14, 1984”, is the “youngest billionaire on the planet”. (Web). Growing up, “He was the second of four children and the only son in the educated family.” (Web). His parents were both educated just like Larry Page’s parents. However, the father was, “a dentist” and the mother, “a psychiatrist”. (Web). With the potential of success because of the opportunities at such a young age, “Mark got interested in programming during elementary school.” (Web). “The fact that the world is divided between programmers and users, Mark found out when he was 10 years old and got his first PC Quantex 486DX on the Intel 486.” (Web). Receiving a computer at such a young age and with Zuckerberg’s interest in computer programming, had really gave him a head start towards becoming successful.
In 2010 the Academy Awards gave its best picture award to a film called The King’s Speech directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. It was a well written and executed film however there was another film that should have won instead of The King’s Speech. That film was called The Social Network directed by the revered David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin. The film starred Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, and Justin Timberlake. It was adapted from a book called “The Accidental Billionaires” written by Ben Mezrich in 2009. The Social Network focuses on the foundation of the social network website Facebook. The film’s main story begins with Mark Zuckerberg being dumped by his girlfriend which starts a chain of events leading to a website that rates girls. The website’s popularity results in the crashing of the Harvard network and gets Mark noticed by the Winkle Voss twins. The twins recruit Mark to create a website called the Harvard Connection. Little did they know the twins planted a seed, Mark secretly began bringing the idea of Facebook to life. Mark got the funding for the website from his best friend Eduardo Saverin, the co-founder of Facebook. Both began working on the site and expanded it to include other universities. After the initial success of the website, Mark and Eduardo decided to look for other investor where they meet the Napster co-founder Sean Parker. Later in the movie, a bombshell is dropped on Eduardo; his share of the company is dropped from 34% to .03%. The remainder of the movie is centered on Mark being sued by Eduardo and the Winkle Voss twins. The issue is resolved by Mark paying both parties. Though The King’s Speech was awarded best picture for its director and screen play, The Social ...
On June 4th, 1990 Evan Spiegel was born in Los Angeles, California. Both his mother and father are lawyers. Spiegel had a very privileged childhood. He received his
Becoming the richest man in the world, Bill Gates is one of the most influential men. Not only is Bill Gates one of the most influential figures in the world, but he is also one of the most influential figures in the business world. Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. Gates was born into already well established family. “His father, William Henry Gates Jr., was a successful lawyer, and his mother, Mary Maxwell, was chairwoman of United Way International.”(Stevenson).
For everyone in the business world, Mark Zuckerberg is a well-known name to them. He is an undeniably young, successful businessman. However, Zuckerberg is also a very successful leader in his own company as well as in the world. His impact from creating Facebook is more than just impressive. Zuckerberg created the social media website where people get connected virtually and led the company to incredible success. Zuckerberg’s leadership style can be seen with inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and idealized influence. With all the aforementioned components, Mark Zuckerberg is a great example of transformational leadership.
...tions he dealt with. It is the story of how the world’s youngest billionaire, Mark Zuckerberg, created Facebook.
The movie “Social Network” is about the ideas and the development behind the creation of the very popular social networking site “Facebook”. Mark Zuckerberg is the main character in the movie and also the actual creator of Facebook.
An entrepreneur is someone that starts up their own business. Mark Zuckerburg became an entrepeneur because of his social networking site called Fackbook. It all started in his college dorm in 2004 at Harvard University. He made a website called Facesmash for Harvard students only. This site let you vote on which two students from Harvard were “Hot or Not”. Then he started making “TheFacebook”, which was the name of facebook when it started.Soon he soon changed it to just “Facebook”. A man named Peter Theil was the first to invest in the company for 10.2% of the company. Zuckerburg branched out to more private schools, then next thing you know the site was all over the U.S. They made their money by letting ads be on the site. The companies pay facebook to put ads on the site, then Facebook makes money. The company went public in 2012 to the stocks. This was big. They would make even more money. It was risky, but Zuckerburg did it.
On October 28, 1955 William H. Gates III (nicknamed "trey") was born in Seattle. His father was a lawyer (William H. Gates II) and his mother was a schoolteacher. He also had two older sisters who were in high school when Bill was born. Bill attended a public elementary school before he moved to a private school in North Seattle named Lakeside. Lakeside's strong academics enabled Bill to actively get involved with computers (which were the love of his life next to baseball) and use his superior intellect. This was the beginning of a long and successful career in computers. Bill combined his intellect and visions of technology along with his active participation in may charities to make our world a better place.
Throughout the movie viewers can see the extent to which Zuckerberg wants to be cool and be a part of elite finals club, Phoenix. The movie’s opening scene is at the college pub where Zuckerberg is talking to his girlfriend (at that time), Erica Albright. Their conversation is about the Finals Clubs, and Zuckerberg starts to talk about ,the Phoenix club in particular. During their conversation he says to her how if he was to make it into the Phoenix club, he would be able to introduce Erica to people she wouldn’t normally meet. This misogynistic and derogatory comment sets Albright off and she breaks up with him, leaving him with one of the most memorable lines from the movie: “ You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole” (The Social Network). This line sets the tone for the rest of the movie. It is because of what Albright says that Zuckerberg eventually creates facebook, it was because of the anger ...
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Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 and its sole purpose is to give people the power to share and connect with the world. With 1.23 billion monthly active members, Facebook has certainly surpassed all other social sites. To put it in perspective that is roughly one-sixth of the entire world’s population. According to his book, Introduction to Digital Literacy Mark D. Bowles (2013) stated that Facebook is “the leading social networking site” where you can update your status, share information like photos, find friends and establish networks (pg. 184). This is exactly why Facebook is so popular amongst other social sites.