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
I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.
Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.
Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.
About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.
You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.
Our mission is to connect every person in the world. You don't do that by having a service people pay for.
Our goal is to make it so there's as little friction as possible to having a social experience.
One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn't had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.
We have a very open culture at the company, where we foster a lot of interaction between not just me and people but between everyone else. It's an open floor plan. People have these desks where no one really has an office. I mean, I have a room where I meet with people. But it has all glass, so everyone can see into it and see what's going on.
We have a rule that if you check in code, you have to maintain it. So I mostly code on the side. I don't check in code anymore.
When most people ask about a business growing, what they really mean is growing revenue, not just growing the number of people using a service. Traditional businesses would view people using your service that you don't make money from as a cost.
My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.
A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: 'If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?'
People love photos. Photos originally weren't that big a part of the idea for Facebook, but we just found that people really like them, so we built out this functionality.