Facebook needs no introduction as we all use this social networking site on a day-to-day basis. But do you know the founder of this amazing website?
Well, it's not some middle aged man engrossed in heavy research but in fact, just a 21-year-old child prodigy who founded Facebook merely for personal use and later astonished by its capacity turned it into a major buzz in the world of Internet social networking.
Mark Zuckerberg hails from New York and has now gained the position of a CEO in the company of Facebook. The office is now shifted to the hub of entertainment, California.
Ever since the founding of Facebook in 2004, Mark has never looked back and kept on introducing interesting features to this amazing site.
Such an achievement at such a young age has compelled Time magazine to include him in one of the towering figures of this century.
Zuckerberg ranked 52 in the list of 101 most influential people of the world. There were over 500 million users of the Facebook in 2010 and the number is still growing, reported in 2013 at over 1 billion.
At 23 he was a billionaire.
Forbes has also ranked Zuckerberg on 321st richest man in the U.S. and since 2010 he has been named among the 100 wealthiest and most influential people in the world by time magazine's person of the year. This proves him to be truly a child prodigy with exceptional creativity and immense potential.
According to Alexa.com, Facebook has grabbed the 1st place in US for getting the most traffic in August 2013, and Facebook joined the Fortune 500 list for the first time coming in at 462.
Mark Zuckerberg keeps the control over the overall direction and project strategy of Facebook. He leads the designing of the services and development of the Facebook in terms of it technology and infrastructure.
His net worth is in the billions.
Got Any Ideas From This?
You don’t have to start your business with a big budget.
In fact, you don’t want to.
Start small, like Mark Zuckerberg.
Social networking is massive these days, for personal and business. Look at the new kid on the block: Pinterest. Look at how big that has grown in a short space of time…
So why don’t you start your own social website and invite your friends and family to come by?Ask a few companies to create mini games in your web platform to attract more members. You can hire programmers to take care of all the coding stuff and a web master to develop and manage your website.