Alexis Julien
Mr. Daniels
Introduction to Business
March 14, 2014
Mark Zuckerberg
One famous entrepreneur today is Mark Zuckerberg, the inventor of the popular social media, Facebook. It was said as he was in Harvard University he and a few friends came up with the idea of Facebook. After a few years Facebook became internationally loved. Ever since the invention of Facebook there have been many positive, but also negative effects.
In the suburbs of Dobbs Ferry, New York on May 14, 1984 Mark Zuckerberg was born into a family of three sisters. His first interest in computers was in his early childhood in elementary school. When Mark was at the age of twelve he had created a messenger called “ZuckNet”. His invention allowed his computers in his home to talk to each other including his dad’s dentist office.
After High school Mark enrolled in Academy of Phillips Exeter, a preparatory school. While being at the academy he was still amazed with software and wanted a degree in it. While graduating from the academy he proceeded to Harvard University. Being at Harvard, almost everyone knew him as a software programmer. With his software skills he quickly developed a site called Facemash where it would compare two of the girl’s faces and ask which one looked better.
Along the way at Harvard three men, Divya Narendra, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss approached Mark asking for his software skills to create a site called The Harvard Connection. The site was used to be a dating site around Harvard. Mark agreed to work with them when he got the idea to make his own site and dropped out of their project. With the help of Mark’s friends, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin they created the popular social media site called Facebook....
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...erberg is one of those big risks takers today and still is. One risk Mark took was while he was creating Facebook he dropped out of Harvard University to complete the website. By doing this he risked the chance if the website he was creating would ever take off plus he had no job at the time. After completing Facebook, it soared off the charts and many people wanted to be apart of Facebook.
Another risk Mark took was when Facebook was still becoming a hit sensation many businesses called to be apart of Facebook. But Mark took the risk of ignoring important phone calls, and cancelling business meetings. (ZuckerbergSuccessful). This shocked many investors, but Zuckerberg had a plan to rise the demand of Facebook by doing this. After taking this risk Facebook became even popular with many more investors wanting Facebook but also with Facebook users.
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...and many more things. Other sites just pictures and that’s boring. I saw the movie about Mark Zuckerburg and facebook and I really enjoyed it. The people on the paper that I got were all people that I know and I didn’t want to do them. I chose to go online and find other entrepenuers. I found Mark Zucherburg and I knew I had to do him. When I saw his name I thought of facebook and I decided to write about him.
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.