31.10.2010 - 0:37
In 2010, the country released the film "Social Network", dedicated to the founder of "Facebook" Mark Zuckerberg. This film is based on the novel by Ben Mezrich, "Grudging Billionaires: An Alternate History of the Creation of Facebook." Zuckerberg himself said: “The real story of the creation of Facebook looked like this: we just sat at computers for six years and did some programming. It would be too boring for a movie "...
First computer
It is rather unusual, speaking about the biography of one of the most famous and richest people of the 21st century, to call the date of his birth - only 1984. But it really is - Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984. This event took place in a fairly respectable area of New York, Dobbs Farry. His parents belong to one of the most respected and highly paid classes in the United States - doctors: his mother is a psychiatrist, his father is a dentist. However, the career did not prevent the Zuckerberg from having four children - Mark has an older sister and two younger sisters.
It was the large size of the family that at one time made Mark perform his first programming feat - at the age of 11, he created a mini-network at home, in which he could exchange messages with his parents and sisters.
A year earlier, he received his first computer, the 486th Quantex DX, as a gift for his 10th anniversary, and immediately became seriously carried away by the new "toy". I must say that before that he had completely different hobbies - the boy was interested in antiquity and even studied Latin and Greek. But computer languages turned out to be much more attractive. Later, Mark said that people are divided into two types: users and programmers. The first, having received a computer, use it, the second begin to modify it and find simple solutions to complex problems with its help.
Zuckerberg himself certainly belongs to the latter. I must say that many of his peers around the world also mastered and are mastering the wisdom of communicating with computers. But for some reason, for most of them, the matter did not go further than ordinary shooters and walkers. And Mark tried to understand all the wisdom of the rapidly developing IT industry, and in various fields, including in the protection and, accordingly, the hacking of computers. Still, Mark did not choose a crooked hacker path, although, as we will see later, he sometimes used skills in this "industry".
Young hacker
In the 9th grade, Mark created a rather unusual program "Synapse". She collected data on what kind of music a person listens to on his computer, what kind of songs he prefers and at what time of day. And then, on the basis of these data, she created a playlist, playing exactly those melodies that, perhaps, the music lover himself would have chosen at that moment.
This program was interested in "Microsoft" - the brainchild of another computer genius and offered the young programmer a huge sum for it. But here for the first time he showed his odd character, gave up the money and distributed "Synapse" for free.
Then he again surprised his acquaintances. All the same Microsoft, right after Mark graduated from high school, offered him a well-paid job, but he did not accept the invitation and went to study at Harvard, and chose for himself not the field of computer technology, but psychology.
However, at Harvard, he immediately acquired a reputation as a tough hacker and programmer. Mark managed to hack into a server with an information base and photographs of all students and organized a kind of network beauty contest for Harvard girls. After that, the administration almost expelled him from the university, but at the same time noted in its conclusion that Zuckerberg had exceptional abilities.
In the movie "The Social Network" Mark Zuckerberg is presented as a person who is not doing well in communicating with people, in other words, a sociopath with some mental disabilities. Many authors of articles about the young billionaire portray him as a kind of appendage to the computer, which avoids all human pleasures. But, apparently, in reality it is not so. This is evidenced by numerous photos of Mark on the network, including on his personal page in "Facebook." He is always smiling, surrounded by friends and acquaintances, beautiful girls, enjoying food, travel, etc.
His mental usefulness and ability to communicate normally with people is also evidenced by the fact that when creating Facebook, he immediately found himself a lot of like-minded people and assistants - which is, in principle, impossible for a sociopath.
Throughout 2003, Indian American Divya Narendra and brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss worked on the ConnectU project, a website for students to meet and communicate.
In the fall, they offered Mark to cooperate with them. He agreed, but on January 11, 2004 he suddenly registered a domain called "TheFacebook.com" (he later got rid of the article), and on February 4 he launched his new project. I must say that his friends helped him create Facebook - Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskowitz, Andrew McCollum and Christopher Hughes.
In 2007, they began litigation against him, at the request of the court, expert examinations of the source codes were carried out with the aim of plagiarism, but the results are classified.
In 2009, the plaintiffs did succeed, and Zuckerberg paid them $ 65 million. However, at that time it was already a frivolous amount for him - Facebook turned out to be a very successful project, and Zuckerberg was an utterly rich man - now his fortune is estimated at almost 7 billion dollars.
Thrown billionaires
But in 2004 there were still a few steps left to success. Facebook required a significant investment. Everyone invested - both Zuckerberg and Saverin and other creators of the social network.
However, a really serious investor was found in the summer of 2004, when Zuckerberg and his friends went to the Mecca of programmers - the city of Palo Alto in California. Here he met Sean Parker, the founder of the pirate file hosting service "Napster". He put him in touch with Peter Thiel, the founder of the PayPal payment system, and the enterprising Thiel, seeing the benefits of the project, provided the young geniuses with 500 thousand dollars.
After that, a team of strong programmers was assembled, and Facebook expanded into a powerful worldwide network.
However, Zuckerberg fell out with his first companions. After long conversations with the offended Eduardo Saverin, the writer Ben Mezrich wrote his book “Reluctant Billionaires: An Alternative History of the Creation of Facebook,” based on which the film “The Social Network” was filmed.
The grievances of former friends of Zuckerberg seem a little strange - each of them has shares of "Facebook" and is also a billionaire.
Zuckerberg's personal life
Zuckerberg's supporters claim that the offended Saverin defamed the bright image of the founder of Facebook, and Mezrich's book and film on it are a lie, because the writer did not even talk to Zuckerberg himself.
They say the "real Mark" is presented in another book, The Facebook Effect, written this June by writer David Kirkpatrick after lengthy conversations with the founder of the social networking site. profit, is engaged exclusively in his own business and dreams of making the world a better place.
On his Facebook page, Zuckerberg himself states: "I'm trying to make the world more open by helping people find each other." It is stated in his interests: "openness, doing things that help people find each other and share what is important to them, revolutions, information flow, minimalism."
He recently voiced himself in the cult series In the series, which was released just the other day, Lisa and Nelson are looking for an investor for their project and get to know Zuckerberg. He casually informs young entrepreneurs that many billionaires have dropped out of universities at one time - by the way, the founder of Facebook himself never graduated from Harvard ... He went to universities on the Internet and proved the success of such training.
However, according to Western media, the billionaire is modest in everyday life, sleeps on a mattress that just lies on the floor, rides a bicycle to his office, dresses almost beggarly, walks in sandals on his bare feet and is only interested in work.
However, he still does not forget about his personal life - for several years now he has been meeting with a Chinese woman Priscilla Chen, whom he met in the same, already historic, 2004 at Harvard - in the toilet queue.
In May 2012, Mark and Priscilla got married, and the invited guests did not even suspect that they were called to the wedding ceremony until it began.
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