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MD.Golam AhasanID:083419030

BUS251Faculty: Shahed Rahman

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg

Founder, CEO & President of Facebook

Early life

• Computer Programming• A peer-to-peer client called Wirehog• Games• Music player Synapse -using artificial

intelligence software • Messaging program • Hacking

On The Way to Build Social Network

• "The Photo Address Book "to "The Facebook".

• Harvard dormitory room to Palo Alto,California.

A unending journey From 2004

• February 4, 2004, at the age of 19 within 3 months, 45 schools and over

100,00 people were using Facebook .

• By 2010, Facebook 500millions active user with yearly revenue of more then $800millions.

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Legal conflicts

• ConnectU lawsuits The creators of Harvard Connection( ConnectU)

have claimed that Zuckerberg stole their idea while Zuckerberg has maintained that they were two very different types of social networks. Although an initial settlement was reached between the two parties, the legal dispute over this matter remains ongoing.

• Pakistan criminal investigation

Mark’s Achievement By 2010

• Vanity Fair named Zuckerberg number 1 on its 2010 list of the Top 100 "most influential people of the Information Age".

• "techie billionaires”:Out of the Forbes 400, Mark Zuckerberg is at No. 35, with a net worth of $6.9 billion.

• A movie based on Zuckerberg and the founding years of Facebook, called “The Social Network”.

Offers From Major Corporations to Buy Out

Facebook11 Companies Tried To Buy Facebook• Yahoo• Microsoft• AOL• Google• Viacom• Friendstar.com

Conclusion

• In an interview in 2007, Zuckerberg explained his reasoning:

“It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me.”

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