Mark Zuckerberg - Interviews on Facebook's Future
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been described as 'the Bill Gates of his generation,' a billionaire before thirty directing one of the most dynamic and paradigm changing companies on the web today. This article looks at interviews with Zuckerberg for clues to the direction of Facebook's future development."
"He dropped out of Harvard in 2004, where he was intending to study psychology. His mom is a psychiatrist, his dad's a dentist. Zuckerberg was a computer whiz early on, writing software in sixth grade. In his second year at Harvard he built a site where students could rate, or berate, the looks of classmates through ID photos he lifted off Harvard's computers."
"'You got into deep trouble from this little prank,' Stahl remarks."
"'Well, Harvard was just not happy that I was using their images,' Zuckerberg says."
"'Well, they said you hacked,' Stahl says. 'Did they punish you?'"
"'Yeah, I was put on some sort of -- I don't know what you call it,' Zuckerberg says."
"'Probation?' Stahl asks."
"'Sure,' Zuckerberg says."
"Soon thereafter, he and his two roommates created an online version of the Harvard student directory where kids could message each other. They called it 'The Facebook' and launched it from their dorm room. Within four months they had expanded to 40 colleges, and over the summer moved to Palo Alto."
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