Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Elliot Zuckerbergis an American programmer, Internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is the chairman, chief executive officer, and co-founder of the social networking website Facebook. His net worth is estimated to be US$54.9 billion, as of July 2016, ranking him as the 5th richest person in the world...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth14 May 1984
CityWhite Plains, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Today we can only hear the voices and witness the imaginations of one-third of the world's people. We are all being robbed of the creativity and potential of the two-thirds of the world not yet online. Tomorrow, if we succeed, the Internet will truly represent everyone.
I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.
Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected.
The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.
Simply put: we don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services. And we think this is a good way to build something.
With a generation of younger folks who have thrived on the success of their companies, there is a big opportunity for many of us to give back earlier in our lifetime and see the impact of our philanthropic efforts.
I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.
In a world that's changing so quickly, you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks.
It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.
With some of the issues around the Snowden leaks and what the NSA was doing I think have scared people around the world and I think in many ways rightfully so.
The world is changing so quickly, with mobile stuff and different platforms emerging, that I think it's more likely that the biggest competitor for Facebook is someone that we haven't heard of. What that means for us is that we should just really stay focused on what we're doing.
When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open.
Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.
The most important thing is to keep your team as small as possible,