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Saturday, 22 July 2017

MARK ZUCKERBERG

                               Mark Zuckerberg co-founder of FACEBOOK

  • Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. 
  • He is a co-founder of Facebook, and currently operates as its chairman and chief executive officer.
                                                                              Career

  • Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Hasvard University dormitory room on February 4, 2004. He was assisted by his college roommates and fellow Harvard students Eduardo SaverinAndrew McCollumDustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.
  • It published its own student directory, "The Photo Address Book", which students referred to as "The Facebook".
  • The group then introduced Facebook to other college campuses. Facebook expanded rapidly, reaching one billion users by 2012. 
  • Zuckerberg was the keynote speaker at the 2014 Mobile World Congress (MWC), held in Barcelona, Spain, in March 2014, which was attended by 75,000 delegates. 
  • In a public Facebook post, Zuckerberg launched the Internet.org project in late August 2013. Zuckerberg explained that the primary aim of the initiative is to provide Internet access to the 5 billion people who are not connected as of the launch date. 


Since 2010, Time magazine has named Zuckerberg among the 100 wealthiest and most influential people in the
world as a part of its 
Person of the Year
award.

In December 2016, Zuckerberg was ranked 10th on Forbes list of the World's Most Powerful People.


"The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks." Mark Zuckerberg


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