Mark+Zuckerberg+(Grayson+Heath)

Mark Zuckerberg – The founder of Facebook
 * Born Mat 14,1984in Dobbs Ferry, New York
 * Co-founder of Facebook in college dorm room
 * Left Harvard after sophomore year to concentrate on the site
 * In 2005 Accel Partners invested in his site that was only open to ivy league students
 * Turned down offers to focus on expanding the cite
 * Zuckerberg had to overcome many obstacles
 * Harvard conncection claimed he stole their ideas
 * Instant messages revealed he intentionally stole property of Harvard Connection
 * Regretted messages and claimed he learned from them’ I think I’ve grown and learned a lot”
 * 65 million reached between the two parties

- Zuckerberg used his money for philantrophic causes - Donated 100 million to save failing Newark Public Schools system in New Jersey - Signed “giving the pledge” that promised 50 percent of his wealth to charity over his lifetime

Timeline:

1984 – Born in White Plains, New York, the only son of a dentist and psychiatrist (he has three sisters). 2003 – Launches Facemash - a web programme enabling Harvard students to compare images of same-gender students and rate the more attractive - and nearly gets kicked out when its immediate popularity draws the attention of the university administrators. 2004 – Starts Thefacebook.com in February. 2004 – Drops out of Harvard at the end of his sophomore year; moves to Palo Alto that summer, where he rents a house with a now-famous swimming pool (and zip-wire). 2004 – Facebook hits 200,000 users; contacts venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, and receives an initial investment of half a million dollars - some of which is used to splash out on a small office above a Chinese restaurant 2005 – Facebook hits 5 million users. 2007 – Opens Facebook beyond universities so anyone with an email address can join; turns down a $15 billion offer from Microsoft, which would have bagged him personally $4 billion. 2008 – Reaches a settlement with Winklevoss lawsuit worth $65 million, though still denies any intellectual property theft. 2010 – Named Time magazine’s person of the year. 2012 – Facebook projected to reach 1 billion users; a much-mooted stock market flotation would be expected to earn as much as $100 billion.