He is the Cofounder, Executive Chairman and CEO of Meta Platforms Inc. (formerly known as Facebook Inc.), a multinational technology conglomerate which owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp among other products and services.
Presently at 39, he is the fifth richest person in the world! He Co-founded Facebook in February 2004 along with his roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, while he was studying at Harvard. Originally introduced only in select college campuses, the site experienced meteoric growth and went on to reach one billion users in 2012. In 2007, he became the world's youngest self-made billionaire at 23. The Time magazine named him as the 'Person of the Year' in 2010.
Vision with Human Need
Of course, from Mark Zukerberg entrepreneurs can be inspired to think out of the box and having an innovative vision, which are in fact the essential hallmarks of almost every great business leader that the world has seen. But Mark Zukerberg's potent vision and out-of-the-box thinking was tied with the primal need of human beings to connect with each other, which probably propelled his meteoric rise.
His out of the box thinking induced him to use modern day information technology to create new and revive old connections between people across the planet. His potent vision led to the merging of new-age IT with seminal human connectivity to develop the most popular social network site in the world and giving a huge momentum to the social media revolution.
By tailoring his potent vision with a pragmatic feel of human needs or market needs, today's and tomorrow's entrepreneurs can also follow the path of Zukerberg in crafting their success stories.
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