Mark Zuckerberg, the multi-billionaire owner of Facebook is not typically thought of as a “young entrepreneur” but many people do not realize how long ago the story of Facebook began. Mark enrolled at Harvard University in 2002 at the age of 18 and quickly realized that there was a significant gap in the college students abilities to communicate with each other and share photos easily so he immediately started working on his own website and released “thefacebook.com”, soon changing it to the now well known name of Facebook. Zuckerberg released the website at the shockingly young age of 19 and within the first two weeks of the project, more than half of the students at Harvard had signed up. He quickly pivoted to looking at spreading his new website to other campuses and he and his roommates worked vigorously to do so. Mark’s company quickly skyrocketed in popularity and thus made him one of the youngest billionaires in the world. Mark Zuckerberg is clearly a very successful entrepreneur that continues to shock the world with his success and he has not stopped innovating, clearly shown by the creations of Instagram, WhatsApp, the Oculus, and much more!
This is so interesting! I had no idea the background story for Zuckerburg. Thanks for sharing!
I didn’t know Mark Zuckerburg started Facebook at such a young age! It’s interesting that the gap he recognized has turned into something so popular today. Thanks for sharing!