Mark Zuckerberg, the golden guy of technology

At the age of 25, Mark Zuckerberg had $ 1 billion in hand and was the youngest billionaire in the Forbes 400 billion list. Mark Zuckerberg is the founder and CEO (CEO) of Facebook social networking.

Born in 1984 in a Jewish-American family whose father is a dentist and a psychologist, his son Mark Zuckerberg has a strong passion for technology. This has led to the 'golden guy' in the IT industry as successful today.

From the initial test

Mark Zuckerberg started learning computer programming himself when he was still a middle school boy. The boy Mark was really interested in developing and upgrading computer programs, especially online communication tools and games.

When he entered Phillips Exeter High School, Mark built a highly applicable program like a program to help workers in his father's office communicate with each other, 'Risk' game version. and Synapse music player program. The initial innovations of Mark have caught the attention of the information technology industry in the US at that time, including Microsoft and American Online (AOL).

Both of these large corporations tried to persuade the Synapse program license and wanted Mark to work for him, but Mark decided to attend Harvard University.

By 2002, Mark began to enter the lecture hall of Harvard University, a leading American university. Here, he has done many projects on favorite technology. Mark made the Coursematch project allow participants to see a list of other students who applied for the same subject. This project is also responded by many students in the school.

On February 4, 2004, only two years later, Mark launched Facebook which, according to Mark, was only a project to commemorate his time here as ' Harvard-Thing '. Actually, this idea of ​​Mark came from when he was studying at Phillips Exeter High School, which allows visitors to find out information about students, majors, lecturers .

After only 4 hours, there were 450 visits and the school immediately cut Mark's Internet connection, and reprimanded him for violating the school's computer network security, stealing information to post. my website. Receiving a mistake and not being discouraged, Mark continued to research and upgrade Facebook on the principle that information on the website must be agreed by individuals or organizations and many subsequent projects.

Mark Zuckerberg once admitted that Microsoft owner, billionaire Bill Gates was the inspiration that made him leave Harvard's reputation to fulfill his dream. It all began when in 2004, Bill Gates went to Harvard to talk to the students.

At that time, Bill Gates encouraged students to do certain projects that they were passionate about, even temporarily suspended their studies to pursue their dreams as he did. So Mark and his friend Moskovitz decided to leave Harvard for Silicon Valley, California to give their full attention to Facebook.

Go successful with Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg moved to Palo Alto, California with Moskovitz and several other friends. They rented a small house that lived and worked as an office. In the summer of 2004, Mark met Peter Thiel, who invested in Mark's company. So he also got the first office to work properly in the summer of this year.

Mark had confided, during this difficult period, the group had intended to return to Harvard that fall but eventually the group remained in California. And until now, he has not returned to school to complete the college program.

Facebook grows rapidly. The number of members is about 60 million and is expected to reach 70 million by the end of this year. Facebook is the number one photo site in the US with more than 8.5 million photos posted online every day.

This is thanks to Mark Zuckerberg and his group of friends who continually upgrade Facebook to make it easier for users. On June 5, 2006, Facebook launched the News Feed tool, allowing visitors to know what their friends are doing on this site.

On May 24, 2007, Mark announced the Facebook Platform, a platform for developing social applications, including Facebook social networking. This statement really created excitement and excitement for Mark's team.

In just a few weeks, a series of applications have been built and some of them have millions of users. So far, more than 400,000 computer programmers worldwide have been involved in building these applications for the Facebook Platform.

Only one month later, on June 11, 2007, Mark announced a social advertising system in Los Angeles. Part of the Facebook Beacon program will allow people to share information with a network of Facebook friends through activities on other websites. For example, a person who sells on eBay can also get to know this activity by his Facebook group through the News Feed.

On July 23, 2008, Mark continued to publish on Facebook Connect, a version of the Facebook Platform in building social applications on other websites.

Facing Facebook's dizzying growth, several IT industry giants including Yahoo and Viacom have sought to negotiate the acquisition of the company. In 2006, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel called out to buy Facebook for $ 1 billion, but Mark Zuckerberg and his team did not care.

That number became small when on October 24, 2007, Microsoft spent $ 240 million to buy 1.6% of Facebook shares. Zuckerberg and all Facebook employees must be grateful to Bill Gates because of that, the market price of Facebook is up to 15 billion USD because of the lower real market price experts of Facebook Inc (Mark's company). a lot of.

As CEO of Facebook, Zuckerberg owns 20% of the company stock and, in theory, if he sells all his shares, this 23-year-old guy has 3 billion dollars in hand.

Facebook's value keeps increasing with the growing number of users every day, some experts say, Zuckerberg's young fortune is not only 3 billion but can be up to 5 billion USD depending on success. Facebook's coming here in building ad networks.

In the same year, Mark Zuckerberg was honored to receive the Best Startup CEO of Crunchie Award 2007.

The desire to return to Harvard

Five years ago, when he was new to California, Mark started his career with two empty hands: no money, no house, no car . Now that he has become CEO of Facebook Inc, he still likes wore jeans, Adidas sandals and had a rather discreet life.

At a press conference about Microsoft's investment, Mark Zuckerberg did not even attend, but left the job to other Facebook executives. This is understandable because in an interview with Forbes magazine, Mark confessed that he was not interested in whether he would become a CEO or manager of the company, but what he really cared about was. do what you are passionate about and create something very interesting.

Mark still lives in a rented room where the furniture is quite simple and he still rides his bike or walks to Facebook headquarters near his apartment every day.

Much success but of course Mark Zuckerberg also began to face many challenges. Some of Mark's classmates at Harvard (who currently run the opposition website ConnectU) have filed a lawsuit against him stealing the idea of ​​creating a social networking website when helping them set up a project in 2003.

The plaintiff - the founder of rival site ConnectU - forced Zuckerberg to commit copyright infringement, fraud and steal trade secrets, and asked to close Facebook. Facebook countered by accusing ConnectU of illegally infiltrating the database to steal thousands of e-mail addresses in an attempt to lure Facebook users to ConnectU.

In addition to the lawsuit, Mark Zuckerberg is expected to face a lot of pressure after Microsoft's investment. This is quite understandable because with the participation of this giant group, Facebook's partners will hardly have many 'moves' to gain more benefits when cooperating. Moreover, advertising contracts on Facebook also seem to be limited.

Success or failure, Mark Zuckerberg is also satisfied with the experience and his achievements in the past few years. There are no official statistics, but many analysts say that Zuckerberg is the richest person in the United States under the age of 25.

He is also compared to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Apple's Steve Jobs. He has come a long way and sometimes he wants to rest. Mark Zuckerberg said he would consider going back to Harvard to complete his college degree.