Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg is the founder and CEO of the online social networking website Facebook, which he created while he was a student at Harvard University in 2004.Facebook: Executive Bios At Harvard, he engaged in several hacking projects, including one that pulled photos of current students from a Harvard University database. He dropped out of Harvard soon after launching Facebook and moved his new company to Silicon Valley.http://www.02138mag.com/magazine/article/1724.html Poking Facebook

On July 14, 2009, author Ben Mezrich released his novel The Accidental Billionaires, inspired by and loosely based on the founding of Facebook and the severing of the friendship between Zuckerberg and Edouardo Saverin. A film version of the book, called The Social Network, was released on October 1, 2010. It was adapted for the screen by Aaron Sorkin and produced by Kevin Spacey. David Fincher directed the film.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/

Zuckerberg attended two years of high school in his home town in New York an then transferred to Phillips Exeter Academy, a college preparatory school in New Hampshire. While he was there, he and his roommate built a WinAmp plug-in that would track a user's music preferences and craft playlists based on his or her taste. Both he and his roommate were recruited by several major companies, including AOL and Microsoft, but decided to go to college instead.02138: Poking Facebook (November/December 2007)

Harvard classmates Divya Narendra, Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss have claimed Zuckerberg stole their concept and business plan, and brought him to court in 2008. However, the judge ruled in favor of Facebook.Mercury News: Facebook wins fight against ConnectU (June 6, 2008)

Zuckerberg was listed as number 212 on the 2010 Forbe's Magazine The Worlds Billionaires list and also gives him the title of World's Youngest Billionaire. http://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/10/billionaires-2010_Mark-Zuckerberg_I9UB.html In 2009, he dropped off the Forbes billionaires list, as a drop in Facebook's valuation caused his personal worth to drop below $1 billion. The title of World's Youngest Billionaire was, for a time, returned to the man who had it before Zuckerberg - Germany's Prince Albert von Thurn und Taxis.CNET News: Zuckerberg gets poked off Forbes billionaire list (March 11, 2009)

• Current Project:
  • Founder, Facebook
• Past Projects:
  • Co-Creator, Wirehog
  • Co-Creator, Synapse Music Player
  • Programmer, ConnectU