ONA, TRICIA MAE D Entrepreneurship. STEM 202 Instructions Conduct a research on the life of Mark Zuckerberg and create a 300-word report summarizing his success story. The success story of Mark Zuckerberg as the founder of Facebook and current president and CEO starts when he was at the age 12 where he created a messaging program called Zucknet. He implements Zucknet as internal communication system for the dental practice of his father. And that is the first sign of his success. He continued to learn about computer with his tutor during high school. And after high school, Zuckerberg entered college in Harvard University. He quickly became a computer programmer on campus. During his second year, he had already built two programs which are CourseMatch and FaceMash. At first, both programs became popular but because it deemed to be inappropriate, the university decided to close the two programs. Meanwhile, Zuckerberg decided to be partnered with friends to create a social networking sites that allow his fellow students in Harvard to connect with each other. On June 2004 'Facebook' is officially registered and Zuckerberg retired from his room. By the end of 2004, the website reach 1 million users and Zuckerberg decided to dropped out on college to focus on Facebook. This incredible growth users on Facebook attracted the attention of many venture capitalists and made Zuckerberg to move to Silicon Valley in 2005. By the end of 2005, Facebook reach 5.5 million users when it opened up to students in other schools. And no doubt that Facebook receive numerous likes from Yahoo and Microsoft that cause a great increased of its users through legal battles. In 2015, Facebook gained more than 2 billion active users per month and takes a market value in July 2015 of $ 272 billion. Until now, Facebook takes it on top. That is why Zuckerberg is one of the youngest billionaires in the history. Well he just owns 423 million Facebook shares. ARLIE LAICA D. BASCO STEM-202 ENTREPRENEURSHIP Instructions Conduct a research on the life of Mark Zuckerberg and create a 300-word report summarizing his success story.
