Mark Zuckerberg is the co-founder and CEO of the popular social networking website , Facebook . Founded out of his college dorm room at university , Zuckerberg left Harvard University in his sophomore year to concentrate on building the Facebook site .
The user base of the website has now grown to more than two billion people , turning Zuckerberg into a billionaire .
Early accomplishments From an early age , Zuckerberg used his talents to create online applications for his friends and family to use . Around the age of 12 , Zuckerberg used Atari BASIC to create messaging program ‘ Zucknet ’. Throughout his early education , despite excelling in literature and captaining the fencing team , Zuckerberg remained fascinated by computers . In high school , he created an early version of the music software Pandora .
Companies including AOL and Microsoft expressed interest in buying the software , as well as hiring teenage Zuckerberg before graduation . He declined these offers .
Net worth
$ 113 bn
“ We may not have the power to create the world we want immediately , but we can all start working on the long term today ”
Life at Harvard University By Zuckerberg ’ s sophomore year he had developed the reputation as the go-to software developer on campus .
In his time at Harvard , as well as developing Facebook , he built programs called CourseMatch and Facemash .
Zuckerberg was sought out to help fellow students Divya Narendra and Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss on an idea of their own . The idea , a social networking site they called Harvard Connection , was designed to use information from Harvard ’ s student network to create a dating site for the Harvard elite .
After agreeing to help , Zuckerberg dropped out to work on his own site , The Facebook .
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