The story of Facebook founder .. Mark Zuckerberg
One night in the summer of 2003, Mark was suffering from insomnia in one of the university dorm rooms, so he decided to hack the university database to take some pictures of the students.
Mark Zukerberg
Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984 in a suburb of New York City, to a father who works as a dentist and a mother who works as a psychologist.
From a young age, he loved programming, and his father taught him a system called 'Atari Basic', so he used it to create a messaging program that links computers at home to his father's clinic.
They were corresponding when needed, and when his father noticed this, he decided to develop that talent, so he brought in a special programming teacher to give him special lessons in programming and computing.
Then, at the secondary level, he created a media player program that impressed companies like 'AOL' and 'Microsoft, so they offered to buy it and he politely refused and even rejected an offer for it job because he was doing the programs for entertainment only.
- The idea of creating a social networking site Facebook
Mark enrolled after high school in the 'Phillips Exetre' academy and showed excellence in his field of study 'science and literature', but his heart was strongly inclined to programming, then after graduation from the academy he joined Harvard University and gained in his second year a broad reputation in the field of programming.
In one of the nights of the summer of 2003, he was suffering from insomnia in one of the university's internal housing rooms, so he decided to penetrate the university's database to take some pictures of students and put them on a site he called 'Facemash' in the form of a comparison between the two pictures and voting, whichever is better.
This site was so popular with students that the 'Server' was confused about crossing the maximum number of users, so the university administration, after discovering a disciplinary measure against Mark, broke through the database.
But Mark concluded from that experience an important note, which made him go on with the application of the idea of social networking sites, namely that Internet users interact heavily with content related to social communication.
Before that, the idea of creating a social networking site already existed with two students at the university, "who later raised Ali Mark's case as a thief for their idea," and they offered Mark to be the programmer for their idea.
It is the idea of a site called 'ConnectU', which is also social in which you can put personal pictures, data and links that benefit everyone, so Mark agreed and while working, he came to mind the idea of creating his own website so he bought a domain he called "Facebook.com" in the year 2004.
Then more than four thousand students registered, and the site was for Harvard students at the beginning, so he used the time of his more experienced programmer neighbor to expand the scope of work after increasing the users significantly.
And Facebook began to grow rapidly and unexpectedly to include American universities in general, then needed investors to increase the company's capital, "Facebook" to keep pace with the rapid growth, so he started the search until he received the first amount and was worth "half a million dollars" from one of the founders of the famous Paypal Bank and was sufficient at the time To develop the site.
With the increase in the number of subscribers exceeding one million users, he obtained other investment offers from major companies, estimated at more than forty million dollars.
Some Mark Zuckerberg deals
The number of Facebook users has reached twenty-five million, which made companies like Yahoo offer to buy the site for nine hundred million dollars, but Mark met this offer by refusing because it does not meet what the 25-year-old aspires at that time.
Today Facebook is the second best site in the world in terms of ranking after the Google search engine, and then later in the year 2014 Mark made a deal that estimated one of the largest internet deals in history by purchasing the application 'Whatsapp' specialized in social media by way of chatting and communication.
With an amount that is somewhat imaginative for Internet deals, which is $ 19 billion, the huge amount that made the founder of WhatsApp also in the list of billionaires of the world.
Mark is one of the most influential people in the world
The social networking site Facebook has achieved unparalleled success in a short period of six years, to become the first website in the world in terms of prevalence and number of users, also because of the professional management of the site by the young man, which he still owns to this day.
In 2010, American Time magazine put Mark Zuckerberg on the cover of the magazine as the person of the year, a magazine that only the most influential people in the world are still on the cover of its magazine.
He also ranked Mark Zuckerberg as the smallest billionaire in the world according to the classification of the magazine "Forbes" in 2010 with an estimated fortune of four billion dollars thanks to his site, and is one of the characters that changed the world with his unique invention of the social networking site Facebook.
Today, he lives with his Asian American wife in a luxurious house estimated at seven million dollars. Of course, few people today do not know or hear the Facebook legend Mark Zuckerberg! It is possible from among these lines to conclude that meditation or reflection was the beginning of the idea that turned today to Facebook.
As well as the upbringing was the reason for this, as his father developed his talent when he understood it, yet we say that many influential personalities succeeded after working at a later age, as success is not related to age, time, or place.
Just be ambitious and reach your goal without despair or stop.
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