February 4, be the date that is special to the social media giant Facebook. 17 years ago, Facebook was born and introduced for the first time to the public by the creator, Mark Zuckerberg.
Since its launch in 2004, Facebook has become the social networking site in the world. There is currently no social media platform that can beat Facebook.
The success of Facebook are also contributing to increasing wealth Zuckerberg, who served as CEO of the company. Recorded a net worth Zuckerberg has reached a figure of more than 60 billion U.S. dollars or equivalent to Rp 838 trillion, as reported by Bloomberg.
17 years is not a short time, there has definitely been a journey steep block Facebook and career Zuckerberg. Coil encapsulate the highs and lows of Facebook and career Zuckerberg in to lead the company. Facebook was born in dorm room students the Story of Facebook stems from the dorm room. When that Zuckerberg was a sophomore at Harvard University. He built Facebook with a fellow student named Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.
The idea of building Facebook was created in a room of romance Harvard, the time that Zuckerberg and his friends were gathered. In the beginning, the appearance of the original Facebook using the word “The” in front of it, to be ‘The Facebook’. The color blue dominates the front view of the website since the beginning of its manufacture.
A month after it launched, half of Harvard students become members of Facebook. Zuckerberg then quit college in 2004 to focus on developing Facebook.
After growing, Facebook is no longer based in the dorm room, but moved to a small office in Palo Alto, California. And in May 2005, Facebook acquired fund as much as nearly 14 million U.S. dollars to the capital of the business. At that time, the media, The New York Times praised Zuckerberg as “a great boy aged 21 years”. Mark Zuckerberg became a wealthy man Along with the rapid growth of Facebook, wealth Zuckerberg grow rapidly as well. In 2008, he entered the list of the richest people in the world Forbes for the first time, with a net worth of 1.5 billion US dollars. He is the youngest of 1.125 billionaire in the list.
In the same year, Facebook settle a lawsuit with a former classmate of Zuckerberg at Harvard, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra. They accused Zuckerberg stole their idea for Facebook from social media platforms made them, Connect U. As part of the settlement, they received 1.2 million shares of Facebook.
Then in 2012, Zuckerberg reached the peak of his career when Facebook debuted listed on the stock exchange the New York Stock Exchange. At that time, the initial public offering (IPO) Facebook into IPO technology company is the largest in history.
But beyond that, Zuckerberg not only focus on developing the platform Facebook only. He began to perform the acquisition of a startup that is also intended to enhance the ability of Facebook.
Facebook bought Instagram worth 1 billion US dollars in 2012 and WhatsApp with the value of 19 billion US dollars in 2014. In addition, Facebook also acquired the company’s virtual reality (VR) Oculus in March 2014 with a dowry of 2 billion U.S. dollars.
Through various corporate actions and the magnitude of Facebook, at the end of 2014, net worth Zuckerberg jumped up to 30 billion U.S. dollars, and continued to increase over the next three years up to now reach 60 billion dollars. Established the foundation of humanity and the leakage of user data to a new Phase in the career of Zuckerberg began in 2015 when he and his wife Priscilla Chan established the foundation of humanity Chan Zuckerberg. The couple pledged to give 99 percent of shares Facebook them to venture philanthropy for the sake of advancing human potential and promoting equality.
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