Who is Zuckerberg really. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg - the youngest billionaire in the world

A brilliant guy was born in a large family of a dentist and a psychiatrist. He grew up an intelligent child who was only interested in computers and programming, one might say, from the cradle.

He created the first network at age 11, of course, it was elementary programming, but still ... Mark impressed everyone with his abilities and creative approach to creating innovative programs. Many achievements behind him already from school age: board gamesWinamp et al.

All his first discoveries were made at the institute, he eagerly and passionately surrendered to his work. Surprisingly, in addition to programming, he managed to play sports, learn foreign languages \u200b\u200band psychology - the creator of Facebook is truly brilliant!

As a student, Mark singled out the highest priority subjects; he did not have enough time for everything else. Prepared for exams in a couple of days. In general, the university graduated with average performance.

Facebook creator started new life   in 2003, when he came up with the world. The story began with the fact that he decided to take revenge on his ex-girlfriend. He created a site on which her photo was adorned with the signature "fool." You could vote for a participant. In the first hours of operation, the site was visited by about twenty thousand people.

Another talented programmer, Divy Narendra, was trained at the same university. He had long nurtured the idea of social network   and even found the opening site. The appearance of the site of Mark Zuckerberg immediately interested Nerendra, and so they began to work together.

But the whole history of the union of these young businessmen did not end as optimistically as it began. The creator of Facebook received, and his partners filed a lawsuit. Zuckerberg had to pay $ 65 million, and $ 7 billion was his capital. Rather, the accused was not much troubled, because if you measure his condition and development prospects, then this amount is like a “drop in the bucket”.

Despite the overwhelming success, enormous fortune and popularity of the Facebook network, its creator does not flaunt on the most expensive cars and does not differ in a dissolute way of life. His daily transport is a bicycle. He likes to wear ordinary slates, sleep on the floor and buy clothes of the middle price segment.

They say "money spoils people", but not in the case of Mark. The creator of Facebook is actively involved in charity work, and in the coming year he will donate $ 3.5 billion to it.

Recently, a young tycoon married. The newlyweds met for nine years, even from the student bench. In a word, lasting for years. The ceremony was held secretly in the house of the creator of Facebook.

The same day was a grand event for the entire company - on the stock exchange, the social network was valued at $ 124 billion, which is higher than even the large oil company Gazprom.

The creator of Facebook is now experiencing the happiest moments - success in his personal life and business. It seems like this is only the beginning for twenty-eight-year-old talent. I think you should wish him good luck, because such a "simple and his" billionaire in most people causes only sympathy.

Name: Mark Elliot Zuckerberg

Date of Birth: May 14, 1984

Age: 31 years

Place of Birth: White Plains, USA

Height: 166 cm

The weight: 84 kg

Activity: American programmer, founder of the social network "Facebook"

Family status: married to Priscilla Chan

Mark Zuckerber - biography

Mark Zuckerberg is one of the richest and most famous young businessmen in the world. What is the secret of a successful biography of a famous young genius?

Mark Zuckerberg was born in a suburb of New York. His parents are doctors. My father works in the field of dentistry and now, my mother used to practice psychiatry, but on this moment   does not engage in medical activities. Zuckerberg himself is second in seniority, the programmer has three sisters - Randy, Donna and Ariel.

Mark Zuckerberg - childhood, school years

Mark began to engage in programming in his school years. Soon after the beginning of the study, he began to write quite simple programsbut constantly improved his skills. In high school, Zuckerberg introduced a full-fledged strategy game, which he called "Risk". It was at this point that the talent was noticed by representatives of Microsoft and AOL and immediately offered to cooperate with them. Since Mark Zuckerberg had not yet finished school, the proposals were rejected by him. In 2012, Zuckerberg decided to continue his biography by entering Harvard University.

The next development Mark Zuckerberg decided to do with a friend. They jointly created special program   for the Winamp audio player, which analyzed the tastes of music listeners, and then showed a selection of similar tracks. This program was called Synapse.
Zuckerberg was fond of not only programming. At the time of receipt at Harvard, Mark had a dozen different hobbies. It is known that he was engaged in fencing, devoted much time to the study of mathematics and ancient languages, Latin and ancient Greek. The guy decided to go to university at the faculty of psychology.

Mark Zuckerberg - Harvard University

It was at Harvard University that Mark came up with the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating a network for communication. Initially, his project was created only for students. So it was born in the biography of Zuckerberg facebook network. Of course, Mark was not working on the project alone, he was assisted by Dustin Moskvitz and Chris Hughes. At that time, the project was in dire need of funding, and students quickly found a sponsor. It turned out to be Mark's classmate, Eduardo Saverin, with whom a conflict later occurred, which the court had to resolve.

The Facebook site needed serious promotion, which was taken by a major businessman Peter Thiel. The result of this promotion was the multi-million dollar popularity of the site. Already in 2006, the social network entered the top seven popular sites in America.

Monetization of the site began after graduating from Zuckerberg University. Then the programmer began to earn money on his brainchild. After 3 years, in 2009, Facebook became a joint stock company, and it was supported by more than 20 major investors. Then Mark became a billionaire. It was a huge success in the biography of Mark Zuckerberg.

In 2010, the success of the social network was noticed by Times magazine. Then Zuckerberg appeared on the cover of this magazine, becoming "the man of the year." The magazine noted the achievements of Mark and did not leave unnoticed the fact that in his company a genius earned about 7 billion. Mark Zuckerberg’s revenue is currently around 20 billion. Now, profit growth has begun to slow down, but still, Facebook and its director are getting richer.

Mark Zuckerberg's visit to Russia

In 2012, another important event takes place in the biography of Zuckerberg - he comes to Russia. His goal was to meet with Dmitry Medvedev. Mark also gave a lecture at Moscow State University, with his participation they shot two programs for Channel One. At that time, a conference of developers from all over the world was held, which took place that year in Russia. The event was called Facebook World Hack.

At this event, Zuckerberg made a report in which he called on the entire developer community to create social networks of global coverage. He said that sites of local significance obviously cannot reach the popularity of global ones. The message also hinted at the vkontakte domain, which was at that time Russian. It was after this speech that the board of directors decided to move to the international domain.
In 2010, a film was made about the programmer, which was called "Social Network". The picture was a story about the appearance and development of Facebook, and also contained many moments from the biography of the protagonist.

Mark Zuckerberg - biography of personal life

Mark Zuckerberg and his family are always very modest in public. They rarely give interviews, rarely tell about their personal life and their achievements. Mark usually talks to reporters, and he rarely goes beyond the Facebook discussion.

Mark's wife, Priscilla Chan, became the legal wife of a computer genius only in 2012. They met much earlier, while still in their second year at the university. The first meeting happened quite by accident - young people at the party were waiting in line for the public restroom. An affair with Priscilla began precisely from this, and it lasted until the official marriage for almost ten years. During this time, the couple learned a lot about each other, every day they strengthened their relationship. The premarital period passed quietly, without scandals, and even now the couple spend great amount   time together.

In 2012, Mark and Priscilla decided to legalize relations in their personal lives. But they were not going to inform the public about their intentions. Moreover, until the last moment, even close friends did not suspect the wedding ceremony. They were invited to a party by Priscilla, and called the reception of a scientific degree the reason for the holiday. Only at a party did everyone learn that the Zuckerbergs were having a wedding.

Zuckerbergs live extremely modestly. First hallmark   For many, they call a wretched wardrobe. Mark was repeatedly condemned in magazines for bad taste. To his wife, journalists and stylists are usually indifferent. AT lately   to see a couple on the streets is quite difficult, spouses rarely go out in people. Often, even paparazzi cannot take pictures. But it is known for sure that the family is constantly together, they live quite modestly and donate huge sums to charity funds every month.

Mark Zuckerberg is certainly a great man. From a young age, he showed his genius, actively studied programming and mathematics, and later was not afraid to conquer the Internet and presented the world famous facebook project. His biography is rich in events, Mark has successfully developed a personal life. It is hoped that the future genius is just as impressive and happy.

Author biography: Anastasia Geiko

on Facebook - a special services project and who is Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook has millions of users around the world, it costs billions of dollars and, according to Internet sources, the CIA launched it.

But this success story that spreads in the blogosphere has back side. A complex but addictive conspiracy theory, like Big Brother, which links Facebook with the CIA and the US Department of Defense.

In doing so, the CIA uses the Facebook group to recruit staff for its very sexually sounding National Secret Service. To view job advertisements, you still need authorization on Facebook, so if you are not registered on the site — or worry that the CIA’s secret agents will follow you from work to home — you can watch them on the Office’s own website.

The story begins when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg began acting after a drama in the dorm room, which led to the ongoing trial (Zuckerberg stole the idea from his twin friends dormitories Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and their friend Divya Narendra - at m09).

The first phase of venture capital investing in Facebook (500,000 US dollars) was implemented by former Paypal president Peter Thiel (billionaire, member of the Bilderberg Club - approx. M09). He is the author (with David Sachs) of the anti-multicultural book The Myth of Diversity, and also serves on the board of the ultra-conservative group Vanguard PAC.

The second stage of financing Facebook ($ 12.7 million) was carried out by venture capital company Accel Partners. Its manager, James Brever, used to be chairman of the National Venture Capital Association and served on the board with Gilman Louis, president of In-Q-Tel, a venture capital company founded by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1999. One of the important areas of competence of the company is "information mining technology." Brever also served on the board of research firm BBN Technologies, which was one of the companies responsible for the rise of the Internet.

Dr. Anita Jones joined the firm, which also included Gilman Louis. She was also a member of the board of In-Q-Tel and was director of military research at the U.S. Department of Defense. She was also an adviser to the Secretary of Defense and oversaw the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is responsible for high-level, high-tech developments.

Only when one journalist spoke about the DARPA's Outreach Information Division (OOI) did the public begin to worry about his information gathering projects.

On the Wikipedia page about the OOI, it says: “The stated goal of the Department of outreach information is to collect as much information as possible about each person in a centralized place for convenient study by the United States government, including (although not limited to) Internet activity, purchase history through credit cards"airfare purchases, car rental, health records, academic performance statements, driver's licenses, utility bills, tax returns and any other available data."

Not surprisingly, the backlash of civil rights activists led Congress to investigate DARPA, and the OOI lost its funding.

And now online conspiracy theorists call Facebook new   mask of the outreach department. Among the technologies of OOI was “analysis of the social network and the mechanisms of formation of the behavioral model”, for which the huge amount of clearly targeted Facebook data collection provides all the possibilities.

The Facebook use agreement states: “by posting the content of a network member to any part of the website, you automatically warrant and guarantee that you have the right to provide facebook with irrevocable, unlimited, non-exclusive, with the right to transfer, fully paid worldwide license to use, copy, the execution, demonstration, format change, translation, writing out and dissemination of such information and content, and for the preparation of derivative works or the inclusion of such information and content in other works, and providing ive and authorize sublicenses to the above. "

Equally interesting is his privacy policy: “Facebook can also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs, services instant messaging, as well as from other users of the Facebook service through the operation of the service (for example, tags under photos) to provide you with more useful information   and more individualized perceptions. By using Facebook, you agree that your personal data is transmitted and processed in the United States. ”

Has the CIA really given the impetus and funding for the rapid growth of the largest “success story” among dotcoms? Perhaps this can only be answered by men with headphones in their ears and in good suits ...

Financial condition

Facebook network development

Zuckerberg made his billions on the natural need of people for communication and on their desire for fame. He created in February 2004 the social network Facebook, in which users were invited to post photos and any information about themselves - from scientific and creative interests to gastronomic and love preferences. For four years, the university’s usual social portal has become the favorite Internet address for millions of registered users. Facebook has become popular among students mainly due to the convenience of self-organization in groups, courses and parties that already exist in universities offline. As of the end of December 2008, more than 80 million active participants were registered on the site, in November 2009 there were 350 million of them and the number of subscribers is constantly growing. In most English-speaking countries, this is the most popular social network. Conceived as a communication site for Harvard students, Facebook has become the second social network in the world, second only to MySpace (200 million users). Today Forbes magazine estimates annual site sales at $ 150 million.

In the company of Zuckerberg see two fundamental differences   Facebook from other social networks. First here real people   looking for real people - with an address on the same mail domain. Secondly, on Facebook you yourself determine which user groups your information is available to - only to classmates or to all campus residents, only to fellow countrymen, or, suppose, to all fans of Leonardo da Vinci’s paintings.

Facebook is now headquartered in a large 3-story complex in Palo Alto, California. There are branches in New York and London, as well as in other major cities, including Moscow.

Young hacker

There was no student base at Harvard with photographs and information, although in other schools the so-called “book of faces” was quite commonplace. The idea was simple and natural - to expand the ability of students to exchange information. Zuckerberg turned to the leadership with a proposal to create an online version of the university’s faces, but the leadership was adamant and cited a million reasons why “they could not collect all the information”.

Then Mark hacked into the university database and began to post pictures of students in pairs on his website calling to vote which of the two was more attractive. In four hours, almost five hundred users visited the site. Of course, there was a scandal and the resource was turned off. The initiator was almost expelled, forcing him to apologize to other students. However, the students did not feel offended and demanded to restore the resource. The administration had to give in. Zuckerberg reopened its service. In two weeks, half of the Harvardians registered there. Requests came from other universities. By mid spring, one of the first social portals   such notable universities as Stanford, Yale and others joined. According to the Lechaim magazine (http://www.lechaim.ru/ARHIV/193/shmulin.htm) Zuckerberg is an adversary of luxury, he said, “a one-bedroom apartment, where instead of a bed on the floor, will be thrown a mattress ". He also really does not like it when a business intervenes in his personal life. The whole world went around the story of how Zuckerberg refused to meet with Microsoft representatives, because they made an appointment at eight in the morning, and he was not used to getting up so early. (Interestingly, while still a student at Harvard, Mark refused to sell his Synapse program to Microsoft, and only the third time the richest company   the world managed to agree with him. For those same 240 million!) And negotiations with Yahoo were interrupted due to the upcoming weekend. To the remark of the surprised “Yakhovites” - they say, what a break, it comes   about a billion dollars, - Mark calmly replied that this is nonsense, and here his girlfriend comes to him - and this is much more important. So until Monday and don’t call, because I’ll disconnect the mobile ...

You probably already know what Facebook is and there is no need to describe well-known things to everyone? Therefore, I want to tell you the story of Facebook in my free presentation. More precisely, the history of the creation of Facebook and its development to the level of the largest social network on a global scale.

Yes, perhaps this is the most powerful social network in the world, which over the years has evolved from a service for a small circle of friends to a global platform for communication. This word is now on the lips of every representative of a progressive young generation. Facebook is gradually becoming an integral attribute of our lives. And not by chance.

The story of the creation of Facebook began long before the final formulation of the concept of “social network”. At the moment facebook birth   There were no social networks in the usual sense. The history of the development of Facebook is simultaneously the history of the development of social networks.

Everything new that appears on Facebook is copied by others and becomes the de facto standard. And that is why the history of Facebook attracts so much attention. Using her example, we study the experience of building a perfect new service, the experience of development and implementation social services   and experience interacting with a huge mass of users.

Now let's look at the history of the creation of Facebook a little more specifically and in more detail. In order to taste the experience too :)

Mark Zuckerberg

The founder and “developer” of Facebook is Mark Zuckerberg, a young man who has not been educated at Harvard (just because of Facebook), with a non-standard view of how people communicate with each other.

The personality is rather controversial. Someone considers Zuckerberg an unselfish genius who has made all of humanity happy. Someone - an unprincipled thief, thinking only about getting a large number   money. Someone is just lucky who created the service, which is called “for themselves”, which then “shot”. There are many opinions.

Personally, I consider Zuckerberger a typical Jew who clearly sees his goal and goes towards it, not looking at anyone and not stopping at anything. All facebook development story   this confirms. What is the purpose? Wait and see.

Start

The passion for computers at the youngest billionaire of our time - Mark Zuckerberg - appeared in the 6th grade. He began his thorny journey with the famous C ++ programming language and in young years   developed a computer "Risk". Then there was the program that Zuckerberg created for his father. With her help, the employees of his company could communicate with each other.

After, Mark programmed special application called "Synapse", which is able to automatically create "play lists" of listeners based on their musical preferences. The program was so successful that monsters such as Microsoft and AOL turned their sophisticated eyes to it. The company immediately offered the brand good work   (True, provided that all rights to Synapse are transferred to Microsoft). As a sensible young man in his youth, Mark Zuckerberg refused.

He wanted more. And now we can say that then he did the right thing. By the way, the relationship between Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates does not end there, but more on that later.

Why Facebook is Facebook

Many believe that it dates back to Harvard University, in which Mark entered the faculty. A talented programmer with great potential at the Department of Psychology - it was a rather non-standard solution :-)

However, the story of Facebook began a little earlier - at the Phillips Exeter Academy, a tradition-rich private school in New Hampshire. Or rather, not the creation itself, but the accumulation of the basis on which Facebook subsequently grew.

As a student of this school, Mark Zuckerberg got at his disposal the so-called “The Photo Address Book”. It was a kind of student reference book, in which one could get acquainted with photographs, telephone numbers   and even the addresses of their classmates. The data in it was updated annually, so it was very convenient for each student.

Do you know how students called this book among themselves? "The Facebook"! The reason for the banality is simple - the original name was too long for pronunciation.

Entering Harvard, Mark discovered that there was no such service at the university. He took the initiative to create an online directory like “The Facebook” before the management. And he was refused, which was based on the confidentiality of student data.

In narrow circles, they say that this circumstance really infuriated the talented programmer. And he was not going to retreat.

Facemash

One fine day (or night), Mark Zuckerberg hacked the Harvard University database and created the simplest site, code-named "Facemash." The concept of this site was simple - photographs of students and the possibility of rating them on a certain “scale” of attractiveness were offered to visitors. The site was only accessible inside Harvard.

What came of this, it is better to indicate in numbers and figures: 2 hours after the launch of the site - 450 visitors and 22,000 photo views! Notice - the visitors were the same students at Harvard University. Those. 450 direct acquaintances of the owners of the posted photos in 2 hours!

As soon as information about such a “heroic” act reached the leadership of the educational institution, it was no longer Mark Zuckerberg who was furious. As a result, he received serious problems, and the site was safely closed. But if someone thought that Mark stopped this, then he is deeply mistaken.

Facebook creation

February 4, 2004 can be remembered for various events. For example, on this day at the Sotheby’s auction, the most avid collectors fought for the right to own the stunning sculpture “The Great Dancer” by Edgar Degas. And on the same day, the Facebook social network was launched in a small dormitory at Harvard University. Launched quietly, modestly and without fanfare.

In addition to Zuckerberger, the “starting” line-up included three more students: Eduardo Saverin (as the first financier of Facebook), Dustin Moskowitz and Chris Hughes (as assistant programmers).

So began modern history   Facebook. The initial promotion and formation of the starting audience was carried out with the help of the old and good SPAM. This is one of the most striking examples in when SPAM gave a phenomenal result.

The Winklevoss Brothers take double

Around any brilliant idea is always going to a huge number of scandals. And the story of Facebook was no exception.

Exactly 6 days after launching Facebook, three Harvard undergraduates (the Cameron Brothers and Tyler Winklevoss, as well as their friend Divya Narendra) accused Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their idea, on the basis of which, he said, he created Facebook.

They claimed that back in 2003 they had involved Mark Zuckerberg (inspired by the “success” of his story with Facemash) to create their HarvardConnection.com service. They convinced everyone and everything that a number of their personal ideas and ideas that they shared with Mark were impudently borrowed by the latter when creating Facebook.

The details of this scandal are not particularly interesting, and the information about it is very contradictory. Let us dwell on the main points and this will be enough.

Offended high school students complained to the university’s leadership, and also persuaded the editors of the Harvard Crimson newspaper to publish a revealing article. This was facilitated by the appeal of another student, John Thomson, who claimed that Zuckerberg on Facebook used his idea.

The story of litigation and mutual claims lasted several years. As a result, Facebook paid out $ 65 million in compensation: $ 20 million in cash and $ 45 million in Facebook shares.

My opinion coincides with the opinion of other reasonable people who believe that Zuckerberg stole, if not completely, then a significant part of the idea from the Winklevoss brothers. And since they didn’t conclude any contracts with Zuckerberger when hiring, the story of the creation of Facebook is connected with the name of Mark Zuckerberger, and not the Winklevoss brothers.

Facebook development story

Initially, The Facebook focused solely on Harvard University. In the first month of the existence of the social network, about half of Harvard students registered in it.

But already in March 2004, “The Facebook” went beyond the walls of Harvard and connected students of Stanford, Columbia University and even Yale to its network. Mark Zuckerberg aimed at the universities of the so-called Ivy League, which included all the elite educational institutions. Then, most of the largest educational institutions in the USA and Canada were gradually connected to Facebook.

Any development is impossible without active investment. At the time of the creation of “The Facebook”, Eduardo Saverin (whom Zuckerberg subsequently “cunningly” throws out, having squeezed out of the company and leaving with his nose) to pay for server services existed on the naked enthusiasm of fellow students and small financial investments.

But the hour came when Facebook became so big that it demanded maximum attention. And in order for the history of its development not to be interrupted, more significant finances were required. Mark Zuckerberg leaves for Silicon Valley and settles in Palo Alto. There, he meets Sean Parker, who went down in the history of the Internet, thanks to the creation of the Napster file-sharing network, sensational of numerous scandals and lawsuits with record companies. After the close, Napster Parker dreamed of working for a company that would transform the world with its ideas.

Facebook just met this “requirement” of Parker. And Zuckerberger needed Parker because of his many acquaintances with the financial tycoons of Silicon Valley. As a result, at a certain point in Facebook’s history, Parker and Zuckerberg were developing the company together.

Sean Parker convinced Zuckerberg of the need for the project to grow and attract third-party financing, in which he promised solid support.

The first investor in Facebook was Peter Teal, one of the founders of the famous PayPal. His investments amounted to 500 thousand dollars. Thanks to this, less than six months later, “The Facebook” gathered the first million users. Since that moment in its history, the company has been actively engaged in venture investment issues.

In 2005, for only 200 thousand dollars, small changes took place in the domain name of the social network. The prefix “the” disappeared and just “Facebook” appeared. After that, the social network ceased to be positioned as being focused solely on students. Anyone could register to communicate with their friends. A new phase has begun in the history of Facebook.

Facebook and the world

For example, the monopolist of Yahoo! offered for the entire project 900 million dollars. And he received another Zuckerberg refusal.

Here in the history of Facebook again appears Bill Gates, who redeems 1.6% of Facebook shares for $ 260 million. From this moment, the founder and ideological mastermind of Microsoft Corporation launched his personal page on the social network. But if you think that Mr. Gates limited himself to this, then you are deeply mistaken.

After the purchase of shares, he entered into an agreement with Facebook, according to which the social network posted on his microsoft pages   up to 2011

In 2008, Mark Zuckerberg became the youngest billionaire in world history - his fortune was estimated at $ 1.5 billion.

Among the shareholders of Facebook you can meet Russian investors. In 2009, Digital Sky Technologies, controlled by Yuri Milner, Grigory Finger and Alisher Usmanov, acquired 1.96% of the preferred shares for $ 200 million. Later, Russian investors bought up another 3% stake. Today, Digital Sky Technologies’s participation is 10%.

The social network Facebook is actively developing and introduces its own API, which allows you to connect numerous applications (games, widgets, calendars, etc.). And on September 30, 2010, Facebook entered into an agreement with the telecommunications corporation Skype, so integration of the two giants is expected in the near future.

Representatives of Facebook say that in 2011, the billionth user will register on the social network. And tremendous efforts are being made to achieve this mark.

Today, you can view Facebook in 68 languages. Promotion to many regions of our planet is complicated by the low-speed Internet. And serious steps are being taken in this direction - the creation of a light version of a social network called Facebook Zero. Negotiations are also held with company representatives. cellular communications   (including with Beeline and MTS) about the ability to view pages from mobile phones.

In the current 2011, the history of Facebook promises to be no less interesting. What is the next lawsuit of the Winklevoss brothers, who again decided to “shake” the wallets of the founders of the social network? This time, the brothers ’financial appetite has thoroughly increased. Specific amounts are not called, but according to some sources, we can expect claims of $ 500 million or more.

Perhaps the insatiable millionaire brothers should direct their efforts towards the realization of their main dream - getting into the Olympic rowing team at the games in 2012? In any case, the whole world is now waiting for the next bold attempt of the brothers to end.

Conclusion

Facebook story   vividly confirms one simple thought - everything is only in your hands. You can, of course, look for a guy who will do everything, and you just have to get a profit. Only in this case the chance to fly like the Winklevoss brothers is very great.

And you can not wait for the weather by the sea and realize YOUR ideas with YOUR own hands. Let it be clumsy, let it learn from your mistakes in the process, but in this case, you definitely won’t have to regret that someone turned out to be faster than you. It’s much more profitable to get necessary knowledgethan to miss the "right of the first night" :-)

As for the development of Facebook, I think the idea itself has reached its peak. Further growth is possible only purely quantitatively. And then only for a while. And then something new will surely appear on the Internet and Facebook will become “one of”.

If the history of Facebook interested you and “there is no more strength to hold on”, I advise you to read the book « » . In it in the form of an art form facebook creation   described in more detail. True, they are trying to make Zuckerberger white and fluffy in it, but this is the only drawback of this book.