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The beginning
He was born in White Plains, Nueva York. He was raised within the Jewish customs. -
Zucknet
When Mark was 13 years old, he used the Atari Basic for created a messaging program called Zucknet. Even his father used this program in his consulting room -
University life
He entered to the Harvard University, and he was know as the most experienced software developer. Even he created a program called CourseMatch, which helped to students to choose their courses supported in the opinion from other students. Moreover, he created Facemash. That program was used for vote between 2 personsfor knew which one was more atractive. -
The Facebook Birth
In spite of Facebook was not his idea Mark started to work in that idea with his friends Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes y Eduardo Saverin. They built a Web called initially The Facebook, and was launched from his room in June 2004 -
Start of growth and expansion
In that year, Accel Partners invested 12 million 700 thousand dollars to Facebook and then Mark gave the acces to another national and international colleges. In december of this year Facebook had more than 5 million 500 thousand registered users. -
Legal Problems
Mark was accused of stealing the idea. However Mark had to paid 65 millions of dolars, but the the Winklevoss twins said that they were deceived about the value of their actions. -
Fame
Mark was nominated "the person of the year" Vanity Fair put Mark in the top of the list of innovative and influential technology -
Outstanding in the market
Facebook had reached the figure of 1 billion users, besides, Facebook in that year Facebook quoted on the stock market and the money raised was used to buy Instagram. -
Now
Mark have been considered the 5 richest person around the world. Currently, Mark has used his money for social causes for the benefit of others.
