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a user and was able to generate playlists guessing, which tracks user
wants to listen to right now. Microsoft and AOL got unusual interest in
Synapse media player and wanted to buy it out. However, the young
talent rejected the offer of IT-giants and then politely rejected their
invitation to cooperate. Just like that, Mark Zuckerberg refused from
dozens, maybe even hundreds of thousands of dollars, and work in one of
the top IT-corporations.
Soon Mark Zuckerberg studied at the Academy of Phillips Exeter, an
exclusive preparatory school in New Hampshire. He showed good results
there in science and literature, receiving a degree in classics. He also
showed a great talent in fencing and even became the school captain of
the fencing team. Yet Mark Zuckerberg stayed fascinated by coding and
wanted to work on the development of new software.
In 2002, after graduating Phillips Exeter, Zuckerberg entered Harvard
University. By his second year at the Ivy League he had gained a
reputation as a software developer on campus. It was then when he wrote
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financial consultant and put in his sons a lot of efforts and money so the
problem with the initial capital for the future network could be solved
easily.
In conversation with Mark Narendra said that the project would be called
Harvard Connection (later renamed to ConnectU), and its members will be
posted to the Internet their photos, personal information and useful links.
The tasks of Mark Zuckerberg included programming of the site and
creating a special source code, which would allow the system to work as
quickly as possible.
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Some time later, the registration was opened to all students. The main
condition was the availability of an email address in .edu zone, which also
indicated a persons belonging to education sector.
It must be said that at first this tactic worked out nicely. The project
attracted audience attention of sufficient quality. When a user was trying
to sign up he had to fill out a detailed profile, and in addition to the email
address in .edu zone it was requested to add a real profile picture. If
people used avatars instead of real pictures their profiles were deleted.
Soon
beyond
sector,
Facebook
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went
education
becoming
more
started
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just to build
number of users. When they got over 50 million users, large companies
began to offer Zuckerberg to sale them the project. So, one time even
Yahoo! offered $900 million dollars for Facebook. Impressive sum, but it
absolutely did not satisfy Mark. Facebook biography and Mark Zuckerberg
success story is quite intriguing, isnt it?
complaining
Harvard
administration
and
The
Harvard
investigation:
he
showed
them
what
supposedly
he
did
for
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Despite the apparent frivolity, virtual goods is a serious business, and the
Facebook report confirms that. The company estimates that in 2010 the
global market turnover for virtual goods reached $7 billion, and by 2014 it
rose to $15 billion.
At the beginning of January 2013, Facebook Inc. started testing the
service of paid private messaging. Facebook charges $1.00 for a private
message that you can send to the users who are not in your friend list.
And the message goes directly to their Inbox folder, instead of Other one.
But Facebook went further and realized that some users are worth more
than a $1. If you want to send a message to Facebook CEO Mark
Zuckerberg and get into his inbox, you might have to pay $100 for this
exclusive option. This is another very simple way to generate additional
revenue.
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by
Systrom.
Now
Mike
Krieger
and
Kevin
application
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chose
his
hero.
The
social
tenth
person
on
the
planet,
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On May 19, 2012 Mark Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend Priscilla
Chan in Palo Alto, California and finally they happy live together.
We hope you have enjoyed reading Mark Zuckerberg biography and
breathtaking success story of Facebook and it has inspired you to new
discoveries.
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Bibliography
The Following Website used for collecting information about this
Entrepreneur:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg
www.biography.com/people/mark-zuckerberg507402
mashable.com/category/mark-zuckerberg/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
http://businessideaslab.com/mark-zuckerberg/
https://www.google.co.in
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