- Facebook Founder Mark Zukerberg was born in 1984 to Edward Zukerberg (a dentist) and Karen Zukerberg (a psychiatrist) in New York (USA).
- He founded Facebook at Harvard University in 2004.
- At his early age, he developed an interest in computers.
- During his high school years, he wrote a software program that evaluated peoples musical tastes and developed playlists to match their interests.
- When Harvard University Administrators refused to release student records for his database in Facebook, he simply invited fellow students to create their own online profiles.
- Surprisingly, within the first 2 weeks of his invitation, more than half of the students signed up on Facebook.
- As Facebook started gaining popularity, he dropped out of school and moved to California (USA).
- He even got an initial offer of $1 Billion (which he refused) for his extra-ordinarily remarkable and successful Facebook business.
- He differentiated Facebook from many other Social Networking Sites by encouraging its members to use add-on applications.
- Mark Zuckerberg achieved remarkable growth by accessible features, user-friendly and aggressive marketing strategy for his Facebook.
- Facebook now (2012) has around 480 million members worldwide.