The idea started when he attended Exeter High School, New HampshireSaat that he became acquainted with Adam D'Angelo. Zuckerberg graduated and entered Harvard University, initially making Coursematch program that allows students in the same class can see a list of classmates. The next project to make facemash.com. Through this site visitors can stamp "cool" or "bad" photo of a student, and make Zuckerberg called by the State Administration of Harvard University because it is considered breaking into the campus computer security systems, break the rules on internet privacy, and copyright infringement.
Therefore he mebuat up and launch in 2004. In a short time two-thirds of Harvard students to be Facebook users. Roommates, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hugh, dberhasil develop wings to Stanford University, Columbia, Yale, Ivy College, and several other schools in the Boston area. In a short time, they launched a Facebook into 30 schools.
Moskovitz and Zuckerberg with some other friends moved to Palo Alto, California, summer 2004 rented a small house for the office. Therefore want to do them up with a serious left Harvard. In his office's Zuckerberg met Peter Thiel, founder of Paypal, which give us fresh fund of U.S. $ 500,000, is the first investor so they can move to larger offices at University Avenue is named as the office "Urban Campus"
On August 23, 2005 Zuckerberg buy the domain facebook.com from Aboutface Corporation worth U.S. $ 200,000 or approximately USD 1.86 billion. On 2 September 2005, Zuckerberg launched Facebook site specifically for kids high school. In just 15 days since its launch, most schools in the U.S. are already a member. in late 2005, Facebook has covered about 2,000 campuses and 25,000 high schools in the U.S., Canada, UK, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland.
On February 27, 2006, he began allowing students to be users of the site is to add high school students as friends. BusinessWeek, spread the news that Zuckerberg is negotiating with potential buyers Facebook. But, finally, he rejected the so-called value of U.S. $ 750 million or around Rp 6.97 trillion. The reason, Zuckerberg thought the price was too cheap. At that time, he estimated value of up U.S. $ 2 billion.
In April 2006, the first investor of this site, namely Peter Thiel, Greylock Partners and Meritech Capital Partners, increase investment in Facebook by depositing funds of U.S. $ 25 million. Facebook also entered India through the Indian Institute of Technology and Indian Institute of Management.
He also provides facilities Facebook Notes. This new feature is a blogging feature that allows users to tag, insert images, and other features. In addition, users can import a blog from the site Xanga, LiveJournal, Blogger and other blogging sites. Thanks to these new features, readers can comment on the published writings of Facebook users. September 2006, Zuckerberg opened Facebook service to all Internet users. However, this step is actually drawn protests from the users and loyal customers. As a result, two weeks ago Facebook had to reorganize the new service by opening registration for Internet users who have a mailing address or e-mail that clear.
Peter Thiel, predicting revenues of this site in 2015 could reach U.S. $ 1 billion. Well, at that time, the company was going to go rocketing to around U.S. $ 8 billion. There are also free classified ads in Facebook. Features named Facebook Marketplace was launched on May 14, 2007. This new service was immediately becomes a competitor of other online companies. Craigslist who had already been placing classified ads on the site. Zuckerberg also becoming business flowing smoothly. In fact, Apple is willing to extend cooperation with Facebook to display your iTunes music samples.
Facebook Parakey Inc. bought the company., From Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, in July 2007. Parakey is a manufacturer of computer applications that facilitate data transfer in the form of text, images, and videos to a site on the internet. Bill Gates, in October 2007 to buy 1.6% stake in Facebook for U.S. $ 240 million. The reason, Zuckerberg did not intend to sell all the stocks up at once. The reason is quite simple and noble, he wants Facebook to remain independent.
On 7 November 2007, the site launched its latest service in the form of advertising with a system called Facebook Beacon. Squillionaires Hong Kong, Li Ka-shing, was interested to invest money worth U.S. $ 60 million in Facebook on 30 November 2007.
Now the number of employees alone has reached 400 people. However, Facebook is a unique company. executives and top brass are young, between 24 years-37 years. Facebook's headquarters looks more like a student dormitory. Employees, who every day gets a free meal rations, working while doing her favorite activity. Some are playing guitar, biking, playing the control plane, or swaying accompanied by music blends a disc jockey (DJ). They also do not need to dress neatly. Shorts and flip-flops is their favorite costumes in the office. Zuckerberg admitted averse office atmosphere that is too formal.
Though it was able to accumulate assets to U.S. $ 3 billion, or around Rp 27.9 trillion, Zuckerberg still look as it is, like most young men who enjoyed casual wear.
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