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
While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.
People developed planes first and then took care of flight safety. If people were focused on safety first, no one would ever have built a plane.
The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.
The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.
People don't care about what someone says about you in a movie--or even what you say, right? They care about what you build.
There's lots of stuff none of us have ever seen before. That's good in some ways, but limiting in other ways.
I think Facebook is an online directory for colleges... If I want to get information about you, I just go to TheFacebook, type in your name, and it hopefully pulls up all the information I'd care to know about you.
Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.
The majority of people who don't have Internet, don't have the Internet because they don't know why they want to use the Internet.
The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.
Our philosophy is that we care about people first.
Once you have a product that you are happy with, you the need to centralize things to continue growth.
It's, like, even in journeys like Facebook, we've had some very serious ups and downs.
It's against all of our policies for an application to ever share information with advertisers.