MARK ZUCKERBERG

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Place of Birth    : Dobbs Ferry, New York, United States of America.

Net worth : $2+ billion

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, 25, is an American entrepreneur best known for co-founding the popular social networking site Facebook. Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook with fellow classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while attending Harvard. Zuckerberg serves as Facebook’s CEO.

Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room on February 4, 2004. On May 24, 2007, Zuckerberg announced a Facebook Platform, a development platform for programmers to create social applications within Facebook.

Within weeks, many applications had been built and some already had millions of users. Today, there are more than 800,000 developers around the world building applications for Facebook Platform.

On July 23, 2008, Zuckerberg announced Facebook Connect, a version of Facebook Platform for users. MySpace accepted $580 million to join News Corp., and YouTube took $1.5 billion from Google. On June 25, 2008, the case was settled and Facebook agreed to pay a $65 million settlement.

On October 24, 2007, Facebook Inc. sold a 1.6% stake to Microsoft Corp. for $240 million, rejecting a competing offer from online search leader Google Inc.

He fell under the Scientists & Thinkers category for his web phenomenon, Facebook, and ranked 52 out of 101 people [5] As of January 2010 Zuckerberg is the youngest self-made billionaire in the world.

Mark Talks here about Entrepreneurial skills…

“I’m not looking to take this money and go do a bunch of things with it immediately. We will continue looking at talent acquisition just as we had over the last period of time and if any make a lot of sense, then we’ll surely go ahead and do…”

“Thanks to all of these efforts, our business is doing really well, and we’re on track to create a nice self-sustaining business, and because of this, a lot of companies and firms have approached us about investing in the company”

“Our revenue numbers are up and our growth continues to scale very rapidly. This investment is purely buffer for us, and not something we need to get cashflow positive.”

“Advertising on the Web is less about just hitting someone with a message… It’s about engagement [with that user].”

Mark talks about listening…

What I really liked about this piece was that it reminded me about the power of listening. When doing business on the Internet, not being able to listen to what your customers want is tantamount to failure. Many just get carried away by the ingenuity of their product or service, and try to shove it down everybody’s throat. Not so!

“Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.”
Bernard Baruch

“So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti

“It’s only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.”
Drew Barrymore

“If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.”
Robert Baden-Powell