Younger billionaire on the planet with $ 4 billion in 2010, Mark Zuckerberg, creator and CEO of the Facebook social network is displayed at the 52nd place of the richest men in the 2011 Forbes ranking. His personal fortune is estimated at $ 13.5 billion in 2011.
Graduated in 2003 of the Phillips Exeter Academy, Mark Zuckerberg naturally joins Harvard. Passionate about computers and gifted for programming, he created his first network intended to note the sex appeal of his comrades by hacking the photos on the servers of Harvard. At first, the user has two portraits of girls in front of her eyes and he votes for Harvard’s sexiest girl. The success is dazzling: 22,000 connections in less than two hours.
In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg officially launched Facebook, a social network first intended for Harvard students and then other universities, success was immediate. Little by little, Mark adds features that allow you to easily find knowledge, to communicate with them and to see friends in common.
It was not until 2006 that the Facebook network was open to the public. The enthusiasm for the network will grow the star to the notes to mySpace however published by the giant Yahoo.
Mark Zuckerberg initially tables on behavioral targeting advertising which consists in allowing advertisers to directly target customers supposedly interested in their offers. But in front of the outcry raised by those who see it as a violation of the right to privacy, he is forced to see his copy again. In 2010, 500 million people on the planet had a Facebook account.
The credibility is acquired by Facebook when in 2007, Microsoft put on the table the $ 280 million which allowed it to hold 1.7% of the most dynamic social network of the moment. Since then, investors have been running there, including the Chinese billionaire Li Ka-Shing who has spent 120 million dollars in two years to acquire some 0.8% of Facebook.
In 2010, Facebook posted 500 million members and reached $ 500 million in annual figures in 2009. It is the 5th most visited site in the world. In 2011, Mark Zuckerberg came at the top of the classification of 100 most powerful media personalities published by the British daily The Guardian, ahead of Rupert Murdoch, Larry Page and Steve Jobs.
Mark Zuckerberg still wiped two trials, one against the Winklevoss twins which accuse him of infringement of intellectual property and a counter Eduardo Saverin, the co -founder of The Facebook (the first version of Facebook) who was his roommate at Harvard but also his best friend. Note that the latter was credited following a financial arrangement.
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