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Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (/ ˈ z ʌ k ər b ɜːr ɡ /; born May 14, 1984) is an American businessman who co-founded the social media service Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms, of which he is the chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder. Zuckerberg has been the subject of multiple lawsuits regarding the creation ...
Later, Zuckerberg and Saverin each agreed to invest another $18,000 in the operation. [22] As co-founder, Saverin held the role of chief financial officer and business manager. [5] On May 15, 2012, Business Insider obtained and released an exclusive email from Zuckerberg detailing how he cut Saverin from Facebook and diluted his stake. [23]
Mark Zuckerberg, co-creator of Facebook, in his Harvard dorm room, November 2005. Mark Zuckerberg built a website called "Facemash" in 2003 while attending Harvard University. The site was comparable to Hot or Not and used photos from online face books, asking users to choose the 'hotter' person". [16]
Zuckerberg has long touted open-source technology (Facebook itself was built on open-source software), but he likes to gather all opinions; he spoke to “everybody who was either for, anti, or in ...
Trump once threatened to jail Zuckerberg, and on another occasion, in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, Facebook locked Trump’s account. But things seem to be changing since Trump won the ...
Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook in 2004 and took the company public in 2012. In November 2021, Facebook changed its name to Meta Platforms, Inc. The company owns Instagram , its flagship ...
Mark Zuckerberg begins with his fellow co-founders writing Facebook. [308] 2004: February 4: Creation: Zuckerberg launches Facebook as a Harvard-only social network. [309] [310] 2004: April 13: Financial/legal: Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, and Eduardo Saverin form Thefacebook.com LLC, a partnership. [311] 2004: June: Funding
Hughes is a co-founder of Facebook. [ 6 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] At Harvard, Hughes met and was recruited by Mark Zuckerberg , who was still working in the early stages of the website. During their summer break in 2004, Hughes and Zuckerberg traveled to Palo Alto, California .