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    Mark Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer and internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of Facebook. He launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room in 2004 with fellow students. Facebook quickly spread to other college campuses and Zuckerberg moved the company to California. Under Zuckerberg's leadership, Facebook has grown to over 1 billion users worldwide, making Zuckerberg one of the wealthiest and most influential people in the world.

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    Mark Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer and internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of Facebook. He launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room in 2004 with fellow students. Facebook quickly spread to other college campuses and Zuckerberg moved the company to California. Under Zuckerberg's leadership, Facebook has grown to over 1 billion users worldwide, making Zuckerberg one of the wealthiest and most influential people in the world.

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    Mark Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer and internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of Facebook. He launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room in 2004 with fellow students. Facebook quickly spread to other college campuses and Zuckerberg moved the company to California. Under Zuckerberg's leadership, Facebook has grown to over 1 billion users worldwide, making Zuckerberg one of the wealthiest and most influential people in the world.

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    Mark Zuckerberg

    Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and internet entrepreneur. He is best known as one of five co-founders of the social networking website Facebook. As of April 2013, Zuckerberg is the chairman and chief executive of Facebook, Inc.[5][7] and in 2013 his personal wealth was estimated to be US$16.8 billion.[5] Together with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, Zuckerberg launched Facebook from Harvard's dormitory rooms.[8] The group then introduced Facebook onto other campuses nationwide and moved to Palo Alto, California, United States (U.S.) shortly afterwards. In 2007, at the age of 23, Zuckerberg became a billionaire as a result of Facebook and the number of Facebook users worldwide reached a total of one billion in 2012. Zuckerberg was involved in various legal disputes that were initiated by others in the group, who claimed a share of the company based upon their involvement during the development phase of Facebook. Since 2010, Time magazine has named Zuckerberg among the 100 wealthiest and most influential people in the world as a part of its Person of the Year distinction.[9][10][11] In 2011, Zuckerberg ranked first on the list of the "Most Influential Jews in the World" by The Jerusalem Post and has since consistently topped the list every year as of 2013.[12][13] Zuckerberg was played by actor Jesse Eisenberg in the 2010 film The Social Network, in which the rise of Facebook is portrayed.[14]

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    Main articles: Facebook, History of Facebook, and Timeline of Facebook 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 [34] class years, their 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 began [36][37][38][39][dead with Stanford, Dartmouth, Columbia, New York University, Cornell, Penn, Brown and Yale. link] Samyr Laine, a triple jumper representing Haiti at the 2012 Summer Olympics, shared a room with Zuckerberg during Facebook's founding. "Mark was clearly on to great things," said Laine, who was [40] Facebook's fourteenth user. 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 [41][42] but eventually decided to remain in California. They had already turned down offers by major corporations to buy the company. 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 [35] attractive idea to me."
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