Mark Zuckerberg

BACKGROUND:
Mark Zuckerberg, who was born on 14 May, 1984, in White Plains, New York, with the name of the youngest billionaires in the world, is the co-founder and CEO of the Facebook. His parent hired private computer tutor with name David Newman to work with Mark Zuckerberg once a week. When he was in age 12, he showed his passion and talent in creating messaging program with name "Zucknet.". This allow his father, who works as a dentist, to use the program to call up a new patient without shouting across the dental office. He also co-operate with his friends to create the new game software. When he was studying in high school, a music software Pandora which called as Synapse has been created by him. Several big companies is getting interested in buying his software and hiring him but all the offers have been rejected. After graduating from Exeter in 2002, Zuckerberg enrolled at Harvard. He is reputed as the go-to software developer in campus. When that time he invented the programs called CourseMatch and Facemash. The CourseMatch can help students to choose their classes based on the course selections of other users. The Facemash is used to compare students’ picture and let the users to vote for the one they think as attractive to them. However, the later program has been shut downed by the school administrator because of the inappropriate function. All of these experiences has trained Mark Zuckerberg becoming a considered developer and paved the road to create a bigger success in his career.

THE WAY TO SUCCESS AND HIS COMPANY:

Mark Zuckerberg work on his own social networking site called The Facebook with friends Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin. After his sophomore year, he dropped out of college and immerse all of his time to Facebook. By the end of 2004, Facebook had 1 million users.

In 2005,  Accel has invested a huge capital into Mark Zuckergerg’s company  and then he successfully to  grant access to other colleges, high school and international schools, attracting more than 5.5 million users at the end of the same year. This then began to catch the eyeball of other companies, who wanted to advertise with the popular social network. Mark Zuckerberg reject to sell his company Yahoo! and MTV Networks. Instead, he tried to focus on expanding site, adding extra feature and opening up the project to outside developers.

In 2006, Mark Zuckerberg’s company has been sued by the creators of Harvard Connection because of the issue of stealing idea. The incriminating Instant Messages found out that Mark Zuckerberg may have intentionally stolen the intellectual property of Harvard Connection and offered Facebook users' private information to his friends. Mark Zuckerberg later apologized and showed his regret to public.

In 2012, Facebook has become the largest internet IPO through out of the time by initial public offering, which raised $16 billion. Mark Zuckerberg negotiated the company deal to purchase the Instragram.After the initial success of the IPO, the Facebook stock price dropped somewhat in the early days of trading. But Zuckerberg is expected to weather any ups and downs in his company's market performance. He holds more than a quarter of its stock and retains 57 percent control of the voting shares.

In 2013, Facebook first time to be counted as the Fortune 500 list. In the same time, the Mark Zuckerberg was successfully to become the youngest C:EO at his age of 28.

THE REASONS WHY I CHOSE MARK ZUCKERBERG:

Among the bunch of entrepreneurs, I choose the Mark Zuckerberg as one of my idols is due to several characteristic of his that I believe that, those characteristic can help us to build up our own personality and achieving the success in the coming future. I would like to share my opinion about Mark Zuckerberg in the following:

First, I admire his braveness in solving the problem when his face his challenges. As we can see, he has shown his boldness since he was still a child, he tried to help his father to solve the problem of yelling scene that occur in the dental clinic everyday by building up a messaging software.

Secondly, I like his decisive in making decision. He is willing to come out from the comfort zone and taking risk to fight for his own dream by dropping out from his sophomore and started to create his own social-networking website. I strongly believe that he must bear a great stress and lot of uncertainty when he made his decision.

Thirdly, I respect his forth future ability. This is because of, although there are several big companies were highly valued his ability in creating software and try to hire him before he graduate, but he rejected all the attractive offers and start his own brand social –network website under his name and finally, he grant a big success and become the youngest entrepreneurs in history.

Fourthly, I firmly believe that we need to learn the courage to admit our mistake from him. He has reveal his willingness to make an apology when he found out what was he done is wrong. Targeted at the issue of stealing idea from Harvard Connection, he had made apology and said "If you're going to go on to build a service that is influential and that a lot of people rely on, then you need to be mature, right?"