Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg: from a Revolutionary Vision to a Middle East Revolution
Unbeknownst to them at the time, on a Sunday night in late 2003, a select 450 Harvard University students played an unknowing but seemingly vital part in creating one of the most influential men in the world: Mark Zuckerberg. For Zuckerberg, it was the day which caused him to be called before Harvard's Administrative Board for a disciplinary hearing (Kaplan, 2003); it was also the day which helped catapult his onward trajectory towards creating Facebook, an online social network of over 500 million users valued today at approximately $82.9 billion dollars (Levy, 2011).
Mark Zuckerberg was one of four children born to Edward and Karen Zuckerberg, Mark and his three sisters, Randi, Donna, and Arielle were raised in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Both of Zuckerberg's parents were professionals; Edward is a dentist who houses an office in the basement of the family home, and Karen was a psychiatrist who quit her job in order to be with their children and be her husbands' office manager. Unlike his peers, as a child Zuckerberg created computer games as opposed to playing them (Vargas, 2010). His most well known is a video game based off the Hasbro game Risk, where players fight against Julius Caesar and other figures from the Ancient Roman Empire striving to obtain world domination. By the time he hit middle school, this hobby developed into computer programming. Edward encouraged his son's interest and taught him about Atari BASIC computer programming; he then hired David Newman, a software developer, who came to tutor Zuckerberg in computer programming once a week. At age 12, Zuckerberg created his first professional application, Zucknet. The application was created for his father's dentistry business and it was a messaging program that facilitated communication between the employees.
Zuckerberg attended Ardsley High School his freshman and sophomore years, but graduated from Phillips Exeter
Unbeknownst to them at the time, on a Sunday night in late 2003, a select 450 Harvard University students played an unknowing but seemingly vital part in creating one of the most influential men in the world: Mark Zuckerberg. For Zuckerberg, it was the day which caused him to be called before Harvard's Administrative Board for a disciplinary hearing (Kaplan, 2003); it was also the day which helped catapult his onward trajectory towards creating Facebook, an online social network of over 500 million users valued today at approximately $82.9 billion dollars (Levy, 2011).
Mark Zuckerberg was one of four children born to Edward and Karen Zuckerberg, Mark and his three sisters, Randi, Donna, and Arielle were raised in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Both of Zuckerberg's parents were professionals; Edward is a dentist who houses an office in the basement of the family home, and Karen was a psychiatrist who quit her job in order to be with their children and be her husbands' office manager. Unlike his peers, as a child Zuckerberg created computer games as opposed to playing them (Vargas, 2010). His most well known is a video game based off the Hasbro game Risk, where players fight against Julius Caesar and other figures from the Ancient Roman Empire striving to obtain world domination. By the time he hit middle school, this hobby developed into computer programming. Edward encouraged his son's interest and taught him about Atari BASIC computer programming; he then hired David Newman, a software developer, who came to tutor Zuckerberg in computer programming once a week. At age 12, Zuckerberg created his first professional application, Zucknet. The application was created for his father's dentistry business and it was a messaging program that facilitated communication between the employees.
Zuckerberg attended Ardsley High School his freshman and sophomore years, but graduated from Phillips Exeter
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