Success Story - Mark Zuckerberg
Networking King...
Some have called him a boy genius - Time Magazine named him person
of the year in 2010, others simply know him as the guy who created
Facebook. But unlike the founder of MySpace, Tom Phillips, what
Zuckerberg created in his college dorm room at the tender age of 19, was
nothing short of a worldwide phenomenon that changed the way people and
businesses interact forever.
Growing Up
Born to well-off
Jewish parents, Karen and Edward Zuckerberg, in the suburb of White
Plains, New York, Mark was raised in the trendy village of Dobbs Ferry,
New York. But don't let his upper class upbringing fool you: Zuckerberg
excelled in his studies at Phillips Exeter Academy. Along with his three
sister, Randi, Donna and Arielle (Randi worked for Facebook at one
point) they won numerous prizes for science, math and other subject
throughout middle school and high school years.
Known as "Zuck"
to his friends and family, he developed a fondness for communications
and computers early on. When he was 12 years old, he developed a
messaging system with Atari BASIC, which his father, a dentist, used
regularly in his practice. He graduated high school with a focus on
literary classics and enrolled in Harvard in 2002.
The Concept of Facebook