Mark Zuckerberg as Entrepreneur

1. Mark
Zuckerberg
The Creator of Facebook
By: INAM HANEEF
Roll No: BCSF19BM033

2. Entrepreneur
Definition
• A person who sets up a
business or businesses, taking
on financial risks in the hope of
profit.
• A promoter in the
entertainment industry.

3. Personality
Introduction
Name: Mr. Mark Zuckerberg
Birth Date: May 14, 1984 (Age: 28)
Place of Birth: Dobbs Ferry, New York
Education: Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard
University
Designation : CEO of facebook
Job Profile : Web entrepreneur

4. Mark Zuckerberg Personal Life
Early Life
• Zuckerberg’s father, Edward Zuckerberg, ran a dental practice attached to the family's home. His
mother, Karen, worked as a psychiatrist before the birth of the couple's four children — Mark,
Randi, Donna and Arielle.Zuckerberg developed an interest in computers at an early age; when he
was about 12, he used Atari BASICto create a messaging program he named "Zucknet." His father
used the program in his dental office, so that the receptionist could inform him of a new patient
without yelling across the room. The family also used Zucknet to communicate within the house.
• Zuckerberg has been marriedto PriscillaChan, a Chinese-American medical student he met at
Harvard, since 2012. The longtime couple tied the knot one day after Facebook's IPO.

5. Education
& Social
Life
• Zuckerberg started his high school
education at Ardsley High School in Ardsley,
New York, but he found that this school
wasn’t challenging him enough so he
transferred to Phillips Exeter Academy, a
boarding school in Exeter, New Hampshire.
• After graduating high school, he attended
Harvard University but dropped out after his
sophomore year
• Because of Synapse, Microsoft and AOL
tried to recruit Zuckerberg and buy his
program but he decided to go to Harvard
instead

6. Education
& Social
Life
• Started programming in middle school
and he was very
interested in creating communication
programs and games.
• Created a communication program to
help the workers in his dad’s office
and a computer version of the gameRisk
• He also created a music program
called Synapse which
used artificial intelligence to learn about the
user’s listening habits
• While at Harvard he joined the jewish
fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi and was known
for reciting lines from epic poems such as
The Illiad

7. Turning Point
Major incidents with evolvedhim:
❑ At Harvard
➢ Coursematch and facemash
➢ These Program become
wildly popular
❑ Invented Facebook
➢ When his Program become
wildly popular then he invented
Facebook with his friends
in dorm house.

8. Achievements
Personof the Year :
• Time Magazinenamed him person of the year in 2010
Forbes
Forbes also ranked Zuckerberg at 24th ranked World’s
richest person
11th Powerful Person according to forbes in 2022
The World’s Youngest billionaire in 2007

9. The Financial
Side
The very first investor in Facebook
was technically Zuckerberg’s friend
from Harvard, Eduardo Saverin. He
ivested $15,000 to pay for the first
servers.
Although Saverin was the really the
first, the person who gets the most
credit for being the first investor is
Peter Theil, former PayPal CEO, who
invested $500,000 in June 2004

10. Zuckerberg
Today
• Zuckerberg has a Current net worth :
49.6 billion USD
• He is the youngest billionaire in the
world at the age of 25
• Salary: $12Billion +
• Monthly Income:$1 Billion +
• Number of employees: 76,000 (Nov.
2022)

11. Interesting Facts
• Microsoft wanted to invest in Facebook but was originally turned down. Now they own 1.6% of the
company’s shares .
• Facebook has over 3000 + full time employees.
• On November 30, 2007 the 11th richest man in the world, Li Ka-shing, invested $60 million dollars
(Approx. Rs. 300 Crore) in the company.
• Over 1 billion photos and 10 million videos are uploaded to Facebook each month.
• The age group that uses Facebook the most is 18-34 years.
• Zuckerberg donated $100 million (Approx. Rs. 450 crore) to the Newark, New Jersey school system on
September 22, 2010.
• This event was reported in The Social Network movie.
• He company filed for a $5 billion (Approx. Rs. 2500 Crore) Initial Public Offering (IPO), making it one of
the biggest in tech history and the biggest in internet history.

12. Facebook’s Future!
Facebook Mission:
• Mission is to give people the power
to build community and bring the
worldcloser together. Our products
empower more than 3 billion people
around the world to share ideas,
offer support and make a difference..
Facebook vision:
• "People use Facebook
to stayconnected with friends
and family, to discover what's going
on in the world, and to share
and express what matters to them"

13. THANK YOU
• Taking risks. "The biggestrisk is not taking any risk in a world that is changing
really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."