Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg: a success story

Social networks have densely entered the life of modern youth. There is some kind of an unofficial separation of users according to the age parameter. For example, the social network "VKontakte" collects mostly young Internet users, where they unanimously comment on each other's photos and draw graffiti on the wall of a personal page. Having registered on "Odnoklassniki", people who have already graduated from school, have the opportunity to find their friends at the school, colleagues and just acquaintances who could not see for many years.

In fact, there are no restrictions when registering in a social network, and any user who has access to the Internet can create a personal page regardless of age, country of residence or native language.

One of the most visited and rapidly developing is another social network - Facebook, which allows you to communicate with many friends who live in other countries, however, few people ever wondered who created Facebook.

Perhaps, it is worth talking about the young and talented Mark Zuckerberg, who, despite his age, and he is now 28 years old, is already considered the owner of a multi-billion dollar fortune. In the published list of the 400 wealthiest people on Earth, Mark is an honorable 14th place, and his fortune is estimated at 17.5 billion US dollars.

It began life Zuckerberg quite trite, he was born in a Jewish family, where there were 4 children. Mark's mother was a psychiatrist, and his father worked as a dentist. At the age of 10, the future Facebook founder received as a gift his first computer, and a year later his entire family used a home network created by a small Mark where they could exchange messages among themselves.

Being a pupil of the 9th grade, Zuckerberg created a unique music program "Synapse", for which he will subsequently be offered a considerable sum of money from the already known computer genius Bill Gates. However, Mark decides to distribute his program for free.

Immediately after graduation, the future founder of Facebook receives a favorable job offer from Microsoft, but refuses and goes to Harvard to study psychology.

It is worth noting that the history of the creation of the popular social network Facebook is somewhat confusing, there are several versions that all participants of those events put forward.

The Tyler brothers and Cameron Winklwoss, as well as their companion, Divya Narendra, started work on creating a website for students called ConnectU in 2003. In the autumn of the same year, they suggested that Zuckerberg work together on this project. Mark agreed, but already in early 2004, unexpectedly for all, he registered his domain, which was originally called "TheFacebook.com". February 4, abandoning the article, the creator of Facebook has already launched its new project. Mark was helped in this by his friends - Dustin Moskovitz, Christopher Hughes, Andrew McCallum and Eduardo Saverin.

Not surprisingly, after the emergence of a new social network, Nandra and the Winklwoss brothers began to claim that this is entirely their idea and development. This led to the fact that in 2007 long litigation began, as a result of which in 2009 the founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg still paid them $ 65 million, but for him it was already a very small amount.

In order for Mark's project to work in full force, more significant cash investments were required, such an investor was found. The founder of the PayPal payment system, with whom Mark Sean Parker reduced, saw the project in the young genius perspective and invested in it 500 thousand dollars.

After a short time, Facebook founder Mark and his associates gathered a strong team of programmers, which allowed the project to unfold and reach a whole new level with a multi-million audience.