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Feature Story Mark Zuckerberg
As
of 2011, at just 27, Harvard
dropout and Facebook CEO Mark
Zuckerberg is worth an estimated
$17.5 billion, running a company
used by over half a billion
people worldwide, and has been
the subject of a Hollywood movie
about his
life.
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born
May 14, 1984 in White Plains, New
York to Karen, a psychiatrist,
and Edward Zuckerberg, a dentist.
He and his three sisters, Randi,
Donna, and Arielle, were brought
up in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
Zuckerberg was raised Jewish and
had his bar mitzvah when he
turned 13; he has since described
himself as an atheist.
At
Ardsley High School, Zuckerberg
had excelled in the classics
before transferring to Phillips
Exeter Academy in his junior
year, where he won prizes in
science (math, astronomy and
physics) and classical studies
(on his college application,
Zuckerberg listed as non-English
languages he could read and
write: French, Hebrew, Latin, and
ancient Greek) and was a fencing
star and captain of the fencing
team. In college, he was known
for reciting lines from epic
poems such as The Iliad.
His
father taught him Atari BASIC
Programming in the 1990s, and
later hired software developer
David Newman to tutor him
privately. Newman calls him a
"prodigy," adding that it was
"tough to stay ahead of him."
Zuckerberg also took a graduate
course in the subject at Mercy
College near his home while he
was still in high school.
He
enjoyed developing computer
programs, especially
communication tools and games. In
one such program, since his
father's dental practice was
operated from their home, he
built a software program he
called "ZuckNet," which allowed
all the computers between the
house and dental office to
communicate by pinging each
other. It is considered a
"primitive" version of AOL's
Instant Messenger, which came out
the following year.
According
to writer Jose Antonio Vargas,
"some kids played computer games.
Mark created them."Zuckerberg
himself recalls this period: "I
had a bunch of friends who were
artists. They'd come over, draw
stuff, and I'd build a game out
of it." However, notes Vargas,
Zuckerberg was not a typical
"geek-klutz," as he later became
captain of his prep school
fencing team and earned a
classics diploma. Napster
co-founder Sean Parker, a close
friend, notes that Zuckerberg was
"really into Greek odysseys and
all that stuff," recalling how he
once quoted lines from the Roman
epic poem Aeneid, by Virgil,
during a Facebook product
conference.
On
Zuckerberg's Facebook page, he
listed his personal interests as
"openness, making things that
help people connect and share
what's important to them,
revolutions, information flow,
minimalism." Zuckerberg sees blue
best because of red-green
colorblindness; blue is also
Facebook's dominant colo s an
American computer programmer and
Internet entrepreneur.
He
is best known for co-creating the
social networking site Facebook,
of which he is chief executive.
In 2004 it was co-founded as a
private company by Zuckerberg and
classmates Dustin Moskovitz,
Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes
while they were students at
Harvard University. In 2010,
Zuckerberg was named Time
magazine's Person of the Year. As
of 2011, his personal wealth was
estimated to be
$17.5 billion making him one
of the world's youngest
billionaires.
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Mark
Zuckerberg
1984
- Born in White Plains, New
York, the only son of a dentist
and psychiatrist.
He
and his three sisters, Randi,
Donna, and Arielle, were brought
up in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
1990
- His father taught him Atari
BASIC Programming in the 1990s,
and later hired software
developer David Newman to tutor
him privately. Newman calls him a
"prodigy," adding that it was
"tough to stay ahead of him."
Zuckerberg also took a graduate
course in the subject at Mercy
College near his home while he
was still in high school.
1998
- Attends Ardsley Highschool 1998
and transfers to Phillis Exeter
Academy in 2000.
2002
- Graduates from Phillips
Exeter Academy, a private school
in New Hampshire.
During
Zuckerberg's high school years,
under the company name
Intelligent Media Group, he built
a
music
player called the Synapse Media
Player that used artificial
intelligence to learn the user's
listening
habits,
which was posted to Slashdot and
received a rating of 3 out of 5
from PC Magazine.
Microsoft
and
AOL tried to purchase Synapse and
recruit Zuckerberg, but he chose
instead to join
Harvard
University
in September 2002.
2002
- September; Enrolls Harvard
University in autumn on a
psychology and computer science
course.
In his sophomore year at
Harvard, he wrote a program he
called CourseMatch, which allowed
users to
make class selection
decisions based on the choices of
other students and also to help
them form study groups.
While at Harvard, Mark
Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook,
an internet based social
network. In
his
sophomore
year, he wrote a program he
called CourseMatch, which allowed
users to make class
selectiondecisions
based on the choices of other
students and also to help them
form study groups.
A
short time later, he created a
different program he initially
called Facemash that let students
select
the
best
looking person from a choice of
photos. According to Zuckerberg's
roommate at the time, Arie
Hasit,
"he
built the site for fun." Hasit
explains:
"We
had books called Face Books,
which included the names and
pictures of everyone who lived in
the student dorms. At first, he
built a site and placed two
pictures, or pictures of two
males and two females. Visitors
to the site had to choose who was
"hotter" and according to the
votes there would be
a
ranking."The
site went up over a weekend, but
by Monday morning the college
shut it down because its
popularity had overwhelmed
Harvard's server and prevented
students from accessing the
Internet. In addition, many
students complained that their
photos were being used without
permission. Zuckerberg
apologized
publicly, and the student paper
ran articles stating that his
site was "completely
improper."
2003
- Around the time of
Facemash, however, students were
requesting that the university
develop an internal website that
would include similar photos and
contact details. According to
Hasit, "Mark heard these
pleas
and
decided that if the university
won't do something about it, he
will, and he would build a site
that
would
be
even better than what the
university had planned."
The web programme was designed
enabling Harvard students to
compare images of same-gender
students and rate the more
attractive - and nearly gets
kicked out when its immediate
popularity draws
the
attention
of the university
administrators.
2003
- October 28; Mark Zuckerberg
releases Facemash, the
predecessor to Facebook. It was
described as a Harvard University
version of Hot or Not.
2003
- While attending
Harvard, Zuckerberg meets medical
student Priscilla Chan. In
September 2010 Zuckerberg and
Chan began living together.
According to a book by
Sarah Lacy, Mark Zuckerberg and
Priscilla Chan created a contract
designed to
covermany
of the aspects within their
relationship -- including how
often Chan would be able to spend
time with her predictably busy
boyfriend. One of the rules: "One
date per week, a minimum of a
hundred
minutes of alone time, not
in his apartment, and definitely
not at Facebook."
2004
- Drops out of Harvard at the
end of his sophomore year; moves
to Palo Alto that summer, where
he rents a house with a
now-famous swimming pool (and
zip-wire).
2004
- Starts Thefacebook.com in
February.
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Facebook
2004
- Zuckerberg begins writing
Facebook.
2004
- January 11; Zuckerberg
registers thefacebook.com
domain.
2004
- February 4; Zuckerberg
launches Facebook.
2004
- March; Facebook expands to
Stanford University, Dartmouth
College, Columbia University, and
Yale University.
2004
- April 13; Zuckerberg,
Dustin Moskovitz, and Eduardo
Saverin form Thefacebook.com LLC,
a partnership
2004
- June; Facebook receives its
first investment from Peter Thiel
for US$500,000.
2004
- June; Facebook incorporates
into a new company, and Sean
Parker (early employee of
Napster) becomes
its
president.
2004
- June; Facebook moves its
base of operations to Palo Alto,
California.
2004
- August; To compete with
growing campus-only service
i2hub, Zuckerberg,, Andrew
McCollum, Adam D'Angelo, and Sean
Parker launch a competing
peer-to-peer file sharing service
called Wirehog,
a
precursor
to Facebook Platform
applications.
2004
- September; ConnectU files a
lawsuit against Zuckerberg and
other Facebook founders, but it
was dismissed on a technicality
on March 28, 2007. It was refiled
soon thereafter in federal court
in Boston. Facebook counter sued
in regards to Social Butterfly, a
project put out by The Winklevoss
Chang Group, an alleged
partnership between ConnectU and
i2hub. On June 25, 2008, the case
settled and Facebook agreed to
transfer over 1.2 million
common shares and pay
$20 million in cash.
2004
- A lawsuit filed by
Eduardo Saverin against Facebook
and Zuckerberg was settled out of
court. Though
terms of the settlement
were sealed, the company affirmed
Saverin's title as co-founder of
Facebook. Saverin signed a
non-disclosure contract after the
settlement
2004
- During a panel discussion
at Digital Hollywood Spring,
Zuckerberg outlines goals of
Facebook and announces
"substantial" investments into
Facebook.
2005
- May 26; Accel Partners
invests $13 million into
Facebook.
2005
- July 19; News Corp acquires
MySpace, spurring rumors about
the possible sale of Facebook to
a larger media company.
2005
- August 23; Facebook
acquires Facebook.com domain for
$200,000.
2006
- A leaked cash flow
statement shows that Facebook had
a net loss of $3.63 million for
the 2005 fiscal year.
2006
- March 28; A potential
acquisition of Facebook is
reportedly under negotiations,
for $750 million first,
then
later $2 billion.
2006
- September; Facebook
discusses with Yahoo! about the
latter possibly acquiring the
former, for $1 billion.
2006
- September; Facebook
launches a high school version of
the website.
2006
- September 26; Facebook is
open to everyone aged 13 and
over, and with a valid email
address.
2007
- Harvard students Cameron
Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and
Divya Narendra accused Zuckerberg
of intentionally making them
believe he would help them build
a social network
called
HarvardConnection.com
(later called ConnectU).
2004
- The Winklevoss twins file a
lawsuit against Zuckerberg
claiming he ripped off their idea
for a new social
network,
HarvardConnection (later
ConnectU).
2004
- Facebook hits 200,000
users; contacts venture
capitalists in Silicon Valley,
and receives an initial
investment of half a million
dollars - some of which is used
to splash out on a small office
above
a
Chinese
restaurant.
2005-
Facebook hits 5 million
users.
2006
- At 22 years of age,
Zuckerberg turns down an
estimated $1 billion dollar offer
for Facebook
from Yahoo.
2007
- Zuckerberg was named to the
MIT Technology Review TR35 as one
of the top 35 innovators in the
world under the age of 35.
2007
- Opens Facebook beyond
universities so anyone with an
email address can join; turns
down a $15 billion offer from
Microsoft, which would have
bagged him personally $4
billion.
2007
- Allows independent
developers to write programmes
for Facebook; but is forced to
apologize when Beacon, a
controversial new addition to
Facebook allowing users to view
what their friends have
been
buying
online, raises major complaints
over privacy intrusion.
2007
- On May 24, Zuckerberg
announced 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. It grew to
more than 800,000 developers
around the world building
applications for Facebook
Platform.
2007
- On November 6, Zuckerberg
announces a new social
advertising system called Beacon,
which enabled people to share
information with their Facebook
friends based on their browsing
activities on other sites. For
example, eBay sellers could let
friends know automatically what
they have for sale via the
Facebook
news
feed as they list items for sale.
The program came under scrutiny
because of privacy concerns
from
groups
and individual users.
2007
- December; Zuckerberg and
Facebook fail to respond to the
concerns quickly, and on December
5, 2007, Zuckerberg writes a blog
post on Facebook taking
responsibility for the concerns
about Beacon and offering an
easier way for users to opt out
of the service.
2007
- In November, confidential
court documents were posted on
the website of 02138, a magazine
that catered girlfriend's
address. Facebook filed to have
the documents removed, but the
judge ruled in favor of
02138.
2008
- June; Facebook settles both
lawsuits, ConnectU vs Facebook,
Mark Zuckerberg et al., (filed
Sept. 2004
and
dismissed on a technicality March
28, 2007), and intellectual
property theft, Wayne Chang et
al. over The Winklevoss Chang
Group's Social Butterfly project.
The settlement effectively had
Facebook acquiring ConnectU for
$20 million in cash and over $1.2
million in shares, valued at $45
million
based
on
$15 billion company
valuation.
2008
- On July 23, Zuckerberg
announced Facebook Connect, a
version of Facebook Platform for
users.
2008
- August; Employees
reportedly privately sell their
shares to venture capital firms,
at a company valuation of between
$3.75 billion to $5 billion.
2008
- October; Facebook sets up
its international headquarters in
Dublin, Ireland.
2008
- Reaches a settlement with
Winklevoss lawsuit worth $65
million, though still denies any
intellectual
property
theft.
2009
- China blocks domestic
access to Facebook.
2010
- Zuckerberg named Time
magazine's person of the
year.
2009
- August; Facebook acquires
FriendFeed.
2009
- September; Facebook claims
that it has turned cash flow
positive for the first time.
2010
- On June 30, Paul Ceglia,
the owner of a wood pellet fuel
company in Allegany County,
upstate New York, filed a lawsuit
against Zuckerberg, claiming 84%
ownership of Facebook and seeking
monetary damages.
According
to Ceglia, he and Zuckerberg
signed a contract on April 28,
2003, that an initial fee of
$1,000
entitled
Ceglia to 50% of the website's
revenue, as well as an additional
1% interest in the business
per
day
after January 1, 2004, until
website completion. Zuckerberg
was developing other projects at
the time, among
among
which was Facemash, the
predecessor of Facebook, but did
not register the domain name the
facebook.com until January 1,
2004. Facebook management
dismissed the lawsuit as
"completely
frivolous".
Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt
told a reporter that Ceglia's
counsel had
unsuccessfullysought
an out-of-court settlement.
Pursuant to the contract, Ceglia
agreed to pay Zuckerberg $1,000
for StreetFax and $1,000
for
Page
Book. The contract also refers to
The Face Book, a project that was
to be completed by January 2004.
Ceglia offered a receipt for
$1,000, dated six months after
the contract, to prove he paid
Zuckerberg,
but
it was not the full amount due,
and the contract did not specify
what occurs in the event of a
default.
In
an interview with ABC World News,
Zuckerberg stated he was
confident he had never signed
such an agreement. At the time,
Zuckerberg worked for Ceglia as a
code developer on a project named
"StreetFax." Judge Thomas Brown
issued a restraining order on all
financial transfers
concerning
ownership
of Facebook until further notice;
in response, Facebook removed the
case to federal court
and
asked
that the state court injunction
be dissolved. According to
Facebook, the injunction would
not
affect
their
business and lacked any legal
basis.
2010
- February; Facebook acquires
Malaysian contact-importing
startup Octazen Solutions.
2010
- April 2; Facebook announces
the acquisition of photo-sharing
service called Divvyshot for an
undisclosed
amount.
2010
- April 19; Facebook
introduces Community Pages, which
are Pages that are populated with
articles from Wikipedia.
2010
- April 21; Facebook
introduces Instant
Personalization, starting with
Microsoft Docs, Yelp, and
Pandora.
2010
- June; Facebook employees
sell shares of the company on
SecondMarket at a company
valuation of $11.5 billion.
2010
- In June, Pakistani Deputy
Attorney General Muhammad Azhar
Sidiqque launched a
criminal
investigation
into Zuckerberg and Facebook
co-founders Dustin Moskovitz and
Chris Hughes after
a
"Draw
Muhammad" contest was hosted on
Facebook. The investigation also
named the
anonymous
German
woman who created the contest.
Sidiqque asked the country's
police to contact Interpol to
have
Zuckerberg
and the three others arrested for
blasphemy.
Prior, on May 19, 2010,
Facebook's website was
temporarily blocked in Pakistan
until Facebook removed the
contest from its website at the
end of May. Sidiqque also asked
its UN representative to raise
the issue with the United Nations
General Assembly.
2010
- On July 21, 2010, Zuckerberg
reported that the company reached
the 500 million-user mark. When
asked
whether
Facebook could earn more income
from advertising as a result of
its phenomenal growth, he
explained:
2010
- October 3; Zuckerberg
voiced himself on an episode of
The Simpsons, "Loan-a Lisa." In
the episode, Lisa Simpson and her
friend Nelson encounter
Zuckerberg at an entrepreneurs'
convention.
Zuckerberg
tells
Lisa that she does not need to
graduate from college to be
wildly successful, referencing
Bill
Gatesand
Richard Branson as examples.
I guess we could ... If you look
at how much of our page is taken
up with ads compared to the
average seas
about
20 percent taken up with ads ...
That's the simplest thing we
could do. But we aren't like
that.
Wemake
enough money. Right, I mean, we
are keeping things running; we
are growing at the rate we want
to.
2010
- Steven Levy, who authored
the 1984 book Hackers: Heroes of
the Computer Revolution, wrote
that Zuckerberg "clearly thinks
of himself as a hacker."
Zuckerberg said that "it's OK to
break things"
"to
make
them better." Facebook instituted
"hackathons" held every six to
eight weeks where
participantswould
have one night to conceive of and
complete a project. The company
provided music, food, and
beer
at
the hackathons, and many Facebook
staff members, including
Zuckerberg, regularly attended.
"The
idea
is
that you can build something
really good in a night,"
Zuckerberg told Levy. "And that's
part of
the
personality
of Facebook now ... It's
definitely very core to my
personality."
2010
- Vanity Fair magazine named
Zuckerberg number 1 on its 2010
list of the Top 100 "most
influential people of the
Information Age." Zuckerberg
ranked number 23 on the Vanity
Fair 100 list in 2009.
2010
- Zuckerberg was chosen as
number 16 in New Statesman's
annual survey of the world's 50
most
influential
figures.
2010
- In September,
Zuckerberg and Chan began living
together.
2010
- On September 22, it was
reported that Zuckerberg had
arranged to donate
$100 million to Newark
Public Schools, the public school
system of Newark, New Jersey.
Critics noted the timing of the
donation
a
being
close to the release of The
Social Network, which painted a
somewhat negative portrait of
Zuckerberg.
2010
- On October 9, 2010,
Saturday Night Live lampooned
Zuckerberg and Facebook. Andy
Samberg played Zuckerberg. The
real Zuckerberg was reported to
have been amused: "I thought this
was funny."
2010
- October 1; The Social
Network, a film about the
beginnings of Facebook directed
by David Fincher is
released.
The film is met with widespread
critical acclaim as well as
commercial success; however,
Mark
Zuckerberg
says that the film is a largely
inaccurate account of what
happened.
2010
- On December 9, Zuckerberg,
Bill Gates, and investor Warren
Buffett signed a promise they
called
the
"Giving
Pledge", in which they promised
to donate to charity at least
half of their wealth over the
course of time, and invited
others among the wealthy to
donate 50% or more of their
wealth to charity.
2011
- Upon winning the Golden
Globes award for Best Picture on
January 16, producer Scott Rudin
thanked Facebook and Zuckerberg
"for his willingness to allow us
to use his life and work as a
metaphor
through
which
to tell a story about
communication and the way we
relate to each other." Sorkin,
who won for Best Screenplay,
retracted some of the impressions
given in his script:
"I
wanted to say to Mark Zuckerberg
tonight, if you're watching,
Rooney Mara's character makes
a
prediction
at the beginning of the movie.
She was wrong. You turned out to
be a great entrepreneur,
a
visionary,
and an incredible altruist."
2010
- On October 30, Stephen
Colbert awarded a "Medal of Fear"
to Zuckerberg at the Rally to
Restore Sanity
and/or
Fear, "because he values his
privacy much more than he values
yours."
2011
- On January 29, Zuckerberg
made a surprise guest appearance
Saturday Night Live along
with host Jesse Eisenberg, who
played him in the film. They both
said it was the first time they
ever met.
2011
- Facebook records half a
billion users on Facebook in a
single day, and is expected to
report $4 billion dollars
revenue, double that of the
previous year.
2011
- January; $500 million is
invested into Facebook for 1% of
the company, placing its worth at
$50 billion.
2011
- February; Facebook adds new
"civil union" option for gay
partnerships.
2011
- February; Facebook
application and content
aggregator Pixable estimates that
Facebook will host 100 billion
photos by summer 2011.
2011
- June 2011: Facebook
partners with Skype to add video
chat.
2011
- September; Facebook
partners with Heroku for Facebook
application development using the
Facebook Platform.
2011
- September 22; Facebook
launches new UI Timeline in F8
Convention.
2011
- October 10; Facebook
launches iPad app.
2011
- 1n interview with PBS after
the death of Steve Jobs,
Zuckerberg said that Jobs had
advised him on how to create a
management team at Facebook that
was "focused on building as high
quality and good things
as
you
are."
2011
- December 21; Facebook log
in page changes due to Facebook
Timeline addition.
2011
- December 22; Facebook
launches its new profile user
interface, Facebook Timeline.
2012
- On January 24; Facebook
announced its new profile design,
"Timeline," will become mandatory
and permanent for all users.
2012
- On February 1; Facebook
announced plans for a stock
market flotation in a effort to
raise around $5bn.
2012
- Facebook projected to reach
1 billion users; a much-mooted
stock market flotation would be
expected to
earn
as much as $100
billion.
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Facebook,
Founding and
Goals.
Zuckerberg
launched Facebook from his
Harvard dormitory room on
February 4, 2004. An earlier
inspiration for Facebook may have
come from Phillips Exeter
Academy, the prep school from
which Zuckerberg graduated in
2002. It published its own
student directory, "The Photo
Address Book," which students
referred to as "The Facebook."
Such photo directories were an
important part of the student
social experience at many private
schools. With them, students were
able to list attributes such as
their class years, their
proximities to friends, and their
telephone numbers.
Once
at college, Zuckerberg's Facebook
started off as just a "Harvard
thing" until Zuckerberg decided
to spread it to other schools,
enlisting the help of roommate
Dustin Moskovitz. They first
started it at Stanford,
Dartmouth, Columbia, New York
University, Cornell, Penn, Brown,
and Yale, and then at other
schools that had social contacts
with Harvard.
Zuckerberg
moved to Palo Alto, California,
with Moskovitz and some friends.
They leased a small house that
served as an office. Over the
summer, Zuckerberg met Peter
Thiel who invested in the
company. They got their first
office in mid-2004. According to
Zuckerberg, the group planned to
return to Harvard but eventually
decided to remain in California.
They had already turned down
offers by major corporations to
buy out Facebook. In an interview
in 2007, Zuckerberg explained his
reasoning:
It's
not because of the amount of
money. For me and my colleagues,
the most important thing is that
we create an open information
flow for people. Having media
corporations owned by
conglomerates is just not an
attractive idea to me.
He
restated these same goals to
Wired magazine in 2010: "The
thing I really care about is the
mission, making the world open."
Earlier, in April 2009,
Zuckerberg sought the advice of
former Netscape CFO Peter Currie
about financing strategies for
Facebook.
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Movie "Social Network" - Disputed
accuracy
On
October 1, 2010, a movie based on
Zuckerberg and the founding years
of Facebook, called The Social
Network was released, and stars
Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg.
After Zuckerberg was told about
the film, he responded, "I just
wished that nobody made a movie
of me while I was still alive."
Also, after the film's script was
leaked on the Internet and it was
apparent that the film would not
portray Zuckerberg in a wholly
positive light, he stated that he
wanted to establish himself as a
"good guy." The film is based on
the book The Accidental
Billionaires by Ben Mezrich,
which the book's publicist once
described as "big juicy fun"
rather than "reportage." The
film's screenwriter Aaron Sorkin
told New York magazine, "I don't
want my fidelity to be to the
truth; I want it to be to
storytelling," adding, "What is
the big deal about accuracy
purely for accuracy's sake, and
can we not have the true be the
enemy of the good?"
Jeff
Jarvis, author of the book Public
Parts, interviewed Zuckerberg and
believes Aaron Sorkin has made
too much of the story up. He
states, "That's what the internet
is accused of doing, making stuff
up, not caring about the
facts."
According
to David Kirkpatrick, former
technology editor at Fortune
magazine and author of The
Facebook Effect: The Inside Story
of the Company That Is Connecting
the World, (2011), "the film is
only "40% true ... he is not
snide and sarcastic in a cruel
way, the way Zuckerberg is played
in the movie." He says that "a
lot of the factual incidents are
accurate, but many are distorted
and the overall impression is
false," and concludes that
primarily "his motivations were
to try and come up with a new way
to share information on the
internet."
Although
the film portrays Zuckerberg's
creation of Facebook in order to
elevate his stature after not
getting into any of the elite
final clubs at Harvard,
Zuckerberg himself said he had no
interest in joining the final
clubs. Kirkpatrick agrees that
the impression implied by the
film is "false."
Karel
Baloun, a former senior engineer
at Facebook, notes that the
"image of Zuckerberg as a
socially inept nerd is
overstated ... It is
fiction ..." He likewise
dismisses the film's assertion
that he "would deliberately
betray a friend."
In
January 2011, Zuckerberg made a
surprise guest appearance
Saturday Night Live along
with host Jesse Eisenberg, who
played him in the film. They both
said it was the first time they
ever met.
Eisenberg
asked Zuckerberg, who had been
critical of his portrayal by the
film, what he thought of the
movie. Zuckerberg replied, "It
was interesting." In a subsequent
interview about their meeting,
Eisenberg explains that he was
"nervous to meet him, because I
had spent now, a year and a half
thinking about him ..." He
adds, "Mark has been so gracious
about something that's really so
uncomfortable ... The fact
that he would do SNL and make fun
of the situation is so sweet and
so generous. It's the best
possible way to handle something
that, I think, could otherwise be
very uncomfortable."
Mark Zuckerberg Quotes
"I don't have an alarm
clock. If someone needs to wake
me up, then I have my BlackBerry
next to me."
"By giving people the
power to share, we're making the
world more transparent."
"When you give everyone a voice
and give people power, the system
usually ends up in a really good
place. So, what we view our role
as, is giving people that
power."
"The web is at a really
important turning point right
now. Up until recently, the
default on the web has been that
most things aren't social and
most things don't use your real
identity. We're building toward a
web where the default is
social."
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Zuckerberg
donated an undisclosed amount to
Diaspora, an open-source personal
web server that implements a
distributed social networking
service. He called it a "cool
idea."
Zuckerberg
founded the Start-up: Education
foundation. On September 22,
2010, it was reported that
Zuckerberg had arranged to donate
$100 million to Newark
Public Schools, the public school
system of Newark, New Jersey.
Critics noted the timing of the
donation as being close to the
release of The Social Network,
which painted a somewhat negative
portrait of Zuckerberg.
Zuckerberg responded to the
criticism, saying, "The thing
that I was most sensitive about
with the movie timing was, I I
didn't want the press about The
Social Network movie to get
conflated with the Newark
project. I was thinking about
doing this anonymously just so
that the two things could be kept
separate." Newark Mayor Cory A.
Booker stated that he and New
Jersey Governor Chris Christie
had to convince Zuckerberg's team
not to make the donation
anonymously.
On
December 9, 2010, Zuckerberg,
Bill Gates, and investor Warren
Buffett signed a promise they
called the "Giving Pledge", in
which they promised to donate to
charity at least half of their
wealth over the course of time,
and invited others among the
wealthy to donate 50% or more of
their wealth to charity.
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