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“ If you ’ re going to go on to build a service that is influential and that a lot of people can rely on , then you need to be mature , right ?”
Founding Facebook With his friends , Dustin Moskovitz , Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin , Zuckerberg created The Facebook .
The group of friends ran the site out of a dorm room at Harvard University until June 2004 . In the same year , Zuckerberg dropped out of university and moved the company to Palo Alto , California .
By the end of 2004 , Facebook had 1 million users .
In 2005 , Accel invested $ 12.7 million into the network even though at the time it was only open to Ivy League students .
After granting access to other colleges , schools and international schools to use his site , Zuckerberg ’ s Facebook grew to more than 5.5 million users by 2005 .
Although companies offered to buy the social networking site , Zuckerberg did not want to sell out . One offer he turned down was a $ 1bn buyout offer from Yahoo in 2007 . Zuckerberg focused instead on expanding the site and opening more features .
Zuckerberg ’ s net worth was estimated at about $ 1.5 billion in 2008 .
Legal battles with Harvard Connection Claiming Zuckerberg stole their idea , the creators of Harvard Connection insisted the software developer paid for their businesses losses .
After incriminating messages revealed Zuckerberg may have stolen
Mark Zuckerberg Image by Alessio Jacona
20 September 2021