Biography of Mark Zuckerberg: Early Life to Facebook Success

"Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough"

"The only meat I eat is from animals I've killed myself"

"A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa"

"Connectivity is a human right"

"Our philosophy is that we care about people first"

"I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then"

"The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them"

"The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently"

"You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years"

"Move fast with stable infrastructure"

"At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people's capacity to build and maintain relationships"

"People don't care about what someone says about you in a movie - or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people's life better, then that's something that's really good"

"I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries"

"When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don't want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren't. There are pranks, IMs"

"Health is certainly extremely important, and we've done a number of things at Facebook to help improve global health and work in that area, and I am excited to do more there, too. But the reality is that it's not an either-or. People need to be healthy and be able to have the Internet as a backbone to connect them to the whole economy"

"Advertising works most effectively when it's in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook - they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing - so there's really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that"

"There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on"

"I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It's a pretty good test"

"People love photos. Photos originally weren't that big a part of the idea for Facebook, but we just found that people really like them, so we built out this functionality"

"Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone"

"I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me"

"Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected"

"Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn't have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard"

"We're at a point now where we've built AI tools to detect when terrorists are trying to spread content, and 99 percent of the terrorist content that we take down, our systems flag before any human sees them or flags them for us"

"Our strategy is very horizontal. We're trying to build a social layer for everything. Basically, we're trying to make it so that every app everywhere can be social, whether it's on the web or mobile or other devices. So inherently, our whole approach has to be a breadth-first approach rather than a depth-first one"

"I just think that VR and AR are going to be a really big deal"

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks"

"My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley"

"Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community"

"Our mission is to connect every person in the world. You don't do that by having a service people pay for"

"I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn't the thing"

"I think Facebook is an online directory for colleges... If I want to get information about you, I just go to TheFacebook, type in your name, and it hopefully pulls up all the information I'd care to know about you"

"This is our commitment to users and the people who use our service, is that Facebook's a free service. It's free now. It will always be free. We make money through having advertisements and things like that"

"It's really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there"

"My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person"

"Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on"

"If we're trying to build a world-class News Feed and a world-class messaging product and a world-class search product and a world-class ad system, and invent virtual reality and build drones, I can't write every line of code. I can't write any lines of code"

"When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity - everything was anonymous or pseudonymous - and I thought that real identity should play a bigger part than it did"

"If you grew up, and you never had a computer, and you've never used the Internet, and someone asked you if you wanted to buy a data plan, your response would be 'What's a data plan, and why would I want to use this?'"

"We don't sell data; we don't allow anyone to sell data"

"I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do"

"Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January"

"If you're always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden"

"Bill Gates has always been a mentor and inspiration for me even before I knew him. Just growing up, I admired how Microsoft was mission-focused"

"When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all the time was a world that was more open"

"Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard"

"In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple"

"People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time"

"Our goal is not to build a platform; it's to be cross all of them"

"The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'"

Born as	Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
Occup.	Businessman
From	USA
Spouse	Priscilla Chan
Born	May 14, 1984 White Plains, New York, USA
Age	40 years

Mark Zuckerberg Biography

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