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Mark Zuckerberg

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    Moment 1
    Born in White Plains, New York, the only son of a dentist and psychiatrist (he has three sisters).

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    Moment 2
    Graduates from Phillips Exeter Academy, a private school in New Hampshire; joins Harvard University in autumn on a psychology and computer science course.

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    Launches Facemash - a web programme 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.

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    Moment 4
    Starts Thefacebook.com in February.

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    Drops out of Harvard at the end of his sophomore year.

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    Moment 6
    Facebook hits 5 million users.

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    Moment 7
    At 22 years of age, Zuckerberg turns down an estimated $1 billion dollar offer for Facebook from Yahoo.

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    Moment 8
    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.

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    Moment 9
    Named Time magazine’s person of the year.

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    Moment 10
    Facebook projected to reach 1 billion users; a much-mooted stock market flotation would be expected to earn as much as $100 billion.