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       MARK ZUCKERBERG
       By: IMPACT360 Date: November 21, 2014, 8:22 am
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       Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of world’s
       biggest
       social network site, Facebook
       By Adebola Rayo
       Born in May 1984, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is the
       son of Edward Zuckerberg, a dentist, and Karen
       Zuckerberg, a psychiatrist.
       Zuckerberg created his first computer messaging
       programme, Zucknet, at age 12. To encourage him,
       his father used it in his dental office and the family
       also used it to communicate in the house. While
       most kids his age were playing computer games,
       his own idea of having fun was creating computer
       games! His parents recognised his interest in
       technology and nurtured it by hiring a private
       computer tutor for him.
       The All-Rounder
       While many know Zuckerberg for his prowess in
       the information technology sector, few know that
       he also excelled at various other things. He
       developed his mind by feeding his brain with
       information and knowledge in various disciplines
       from a very young age. While in High School, he
       excelled in Classical Literature studies and won
       prizes for this, alongside prizes in Maths, Physics
       and Astronomy. He also learnt to speak several
       languages, among which are French and Hebrew.
       Besides his mind, Zuckerberg also trained his
       body and was very good at sports like Fencing.
       However, he was focused on his major strength;
       information technology. Before he left High School,
       he had built applications, one of which was
       Synapse. He got offers from companies like
       Microsoft, who wanted to buy his software and also
       hire him. At a very young age, his skills had been
       recognised by the leaders of the technology
       industry. However, he declined the offers and
       enrolled in Harvard in 2002. While in Harvard, he
       built computer programmes and gained a
       reputation among the students as the best software
       developer in the school.
       At a time when Harvard students were clamouring
       for the University authorities to develop a website
       that would allow them to upload their contact
       details and photographs, Zuckerberg decided to
       take the bull by the horns and do it. He wanted to
       build a site that would rival whatever the University
       planned to build.
       Together with three of his friends, Dustin
       Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin and Chris Hughes,
       Zuckerberg built a site called The Facebook in
       February 2004. The site allowed Harvard students
       to create profiles, upload their contact details and
       photos, and communicate with other users. The
       four friends ran the site from Zuckerberg’s dorm
       room till June 2004 when Zuckerberg and
       Moskovitz dropped out of Harvard and moved the
       company to Palo Alto, U.S.A.
       He wanted to concentrate fully on the site and the
       more he did so, the more the site flourished. In
       2005, they opened Facebook up to students from
       other colleges and high schools. At the end of that
       year, there were 5.5 million users and it had
       become a site that companies were very eager to
       advertise on.
       Taking advice
       Zuckerberg did not hesitate to take advice from
       those who had gone before him and succeeded in
       the technology sector. The late Steve Jobs, former
       CEO of Apple, coached Zuckerberg on how to build
       the right management team with the right focus to
       lead the company to the top.
       Advice like this helped Facebook to flourish.
       Although huge corporations were offering to buy
       Facebook, Zuckerberg and his partners turned
       them down and continued to improve the site till it
       became the biggest social network in the world.
       Today, Facebook has over 500 million users from
       across the world.
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