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The Work Of Mark Zuckerberg

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Mark Zuckerberg is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Facebook. He founded Facebook out of his dorm room at Harvard as a 19 year old, with friends Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin. Today, he is responsible for the overall direction of the business, and setting the strategy for the product. He leads the teams working on the design and development of Facebook’s core services, technology and infrastructure (Newsroom.fb.com, 2017). Started in 2004, Facebook had over 21 million registered users by 2007, with over 1.6 billion page views every single day (Ellison, Steinfield and Lampe, 2007). As of December 2016, this number had risen to 1.86 billion monthly active users on the website (Investor.fb.com, 2017).
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During his college years at Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg and his friends worked on a social networking site in which they called it Harvard Connection. It was initially used as a dating site for the Harvard elite. Mark Zuckerberg agreed to help with the project but then later dropped out to work on his own social networking site with his other friends. They ended up creating a site that allowed users to create their own profiles, upload photos and communicate with other users and had called it Facebook. After founding Facebook in 2004, he dropped out of college to run the company, and moved to Palo Alto, California ("Mark Zuckerberg", 2017). By the end of 2004, Facebook had one million users.
Facebook
Facebook Inc. provides its users with products to connect and share their experiences with others. Its solutions include the Facebook website, mobile application, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp messenger, and Oculus - a Virtual Reality technology and platform. Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, it has over 1.23 billion daily active users as of December 31, 2016 (Facebook, 2017).
The company defines their mission as “to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.” Facebook helps people stay connected with their family and friends, discover the developments across the world, and share and express their opinions with others. A venture capital firm called Accel

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