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Ambitious, tenacious,

the internet entrepreneur and tech innovator

with a gift for computer program.

The man who became the planet's youngest billionaire at 23

and who created one of the world's most popular

social network, Facebook.

Along with Amazon, Google, Apple, and Microsoft,

Facebook is one of the big five companies

in the US tech industry.

So what did it take to build such a revolutionary business?

Well, it took someone like Mark Zuckerberg,

the young genius who connected people in ways

never thought possible.

In 2021, his net worth is estimated at $96 billion.

The giant social network has had a vertiginous growth

since its creation.

Take a journey into how Mark Zuckerberg built the giant

that has changed billions of lives

and the way people interact with the world.

They are masterminds, ambitious, competitive, and ruthless

not afraid of failure,

dedicated to their mission of bettering the world,

always reaching for excellence.

They lead by example.

Unlike many industries, the tech billionaires are mostly

self-made.

It is true they're genius, that they revolutionize

the industry and together they change the world.

Join us in this series as we take a look at

some of the wealthiest entrepreneurs in the modern world,

the tech billionaires,

Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos.

Together they're worth a collective of more than

900 billion US dollars.

They will be remembered in history

as the most influential people of the 21st century.

Mark Elliott Zuckerberg was born on May 14th, 1984

in White Plains New York,

into a comfortable well-educated family.

He was the second of four children and the only son.

He grew up with his three sisters in the suburbs of New York

Dobbs Ferry.

His father, Edward Zuckerberg was a dentist

and his mother, Karen a psychiatrist.

Young Mark developed an interest in computers

at an early age.

He began programming in middle school

with the active support of his father.

And he was learning fast.

When Mark was about 12, he used the Atari BASIC program

his father had taught him to create his own

messaging program named ZuckNet.

His father used the program in his dentist's office,

so that the receptionist could inform him

of a new patient without yelling across the room.

The family also used ZuckNet to communicate within

the house.

Together with his friends, Zuckerberg also enjoyed

creating computers games just for fun as he said.

To keep up with their son's enthusiasm and growing interest

in computers, his parents even hired a private tutor,

David Newman, while he was still in high school.

Newman later told reporters that it was hard to stay

ahead of the prodigy.

Zuckerberg studied at the exclusive Phillips Exeter Academy

in New Hampshire.

There he showed talent and fencing,

becoming the captain of the school's team.

He excelled in classes and earned a diploma in Classics.

Yet he remained fascinated by computers

and continued to focus on his passion

of developing new programs.

While in high school, he created an early version

of the music software, Pandora, which he called Synapse.

It was clear that he had an entrepreneur's mindset

from an early age.

Even before he founded Facebook,

he was actually on Microsoft's radar.

The company and several others including AOL

approached the teenager for buying the software

and hiring them before graduation.

He declined the offers.

After graduating from Exeter in 2002,

Mark Zuckerberg enrolled at Harvard University

where he studied Psychology and Computer Science.

By this time he was already a programming prodigy,

by the sophomore year, he developed a reputation

as the go-to software developer on campus.

It was at that time that he built a program called

CourseMatch, which helps students choose their classes

based on the course selections of other users

and also help them form study groups.

But the young freshmen was a bit of a troublemaker.

In 2003 he invented a website,

by far the most talked about things that he created.

The site was called FaceMash,

and it allowed students to judge the attractiveness

of other students by comparing two pictures

and vote on one who was most attractive person.

The software then ranked the results.

Even though Zuckerberg created it just for fun,

it became wildly popular,

but people didn't like that their pictures were being used

without their permission.

And Zuckerberg actually violated university policy

by hacking into Harvard security network.

FaceMash was deemed offensive and inappropriate

and was shut down a few days later by the school.

Zuckerberg apologized for his actions,

saying he thought of it as a fun computer experiment.

He faced serious charges of violating individual privacy.

Harvard nearly expelled him, but then put him on probation.

This would be the first time he ever got into trouble,

but his journey was just starting.

The genius had seen his future

and had an undeniable potential.

People wanted to see what he would do next.

Based on the buzz of his previous projects,

three of his fellow students, Divya Narendra and twins

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, reached out him

to work on an idea for a social networking site

they called Harvard Connection.

They wanted to create a dating site for the Harvard elite

by using information from the student networks.

Zuckerberg agreed to help them in the beginning.

But while working on coding for the program,

he got a fantastic idea for his own social network.

Soon, he decided to pursue his own adventure.

It all started in 2004 when the freshmen Harvard student

and his friends decided that they would start

a social project together.

Zuckerberg's fellow students and roommates included

Chris Hughes Andrew McCollum, Eduardo Saverin,

and Dustin Moskovitz.

It turned out to be the perfect combination of people

to found a company that would later become

the most popular social network in the world.

So on February 4th, 2004 out of his college dorm room

and surrounded by the elite, Zuckerberg co-founded

and launched a site that allowed students to connect online,

Thefacebook.

Those who signed up could create their own profiles,

share information about their lives, upload photos

and communicate with other users.

His goal, giving people the ability to share information

in a safe environment.

Well, I mean, I think our focus is just on building

the best, simplest and easiest product

for people to share information in all the ways

that they want.

So we started off just incredibly simple.

There are only a few different ways to share information.

And over the last few years we've added photos, videos,

notes, messages, just to all these different types

of things.

And each of these are just used massively.

So photos, for example, there are more than

a hundred million photos uploaded a month in the UK alone.

Our goal is really just to enable all of that.

And we think that if we provide the easiest

and the best simplest way for people to share

all of these kinds of information that they want

with exactly the people that they want,

then that's just a longterm, very valuable thing.

Giving people complete control over their privacy,

actually while creating a safe environment

it also makes it so that people can share more information.

So it's a really important part of what we do.

Facebook was a hit from day one.

Within two weeks, half of the student body had signed up.

We're not gonna share people's information

except with the people that they've asked for it

to be shared.

And everyone gets privacy settings.

It has always been one of the big differentiators

for Facebook.

A really different service for people is you can say,

"I want this photo album to go to these people,"

or "I want this note to go to these people."

And the privacy controls on Facebook are really unparalleled

by anything else

The group of friends ran the site

out of their dorm room until June, 2004.

Zuckerberg recall the early days with nostalgia years later

in his Harvard commencement speech.

I remember that night, I launched Facebook from

that little dorm in Kirkland house.

I went to Noax with my friend kayaks

and I remember telling him clearly that

I was excited to help connect the Harvard community,

but one day someone would connect the whole world.

The thing is, it never even occurred to me

that that someone might be us.

We were just college kids.

We didn't know anything about that.

But the social network has a complicated

early history.

Zuckerberg faced a challenge shortly

after Facebook launched.

His three former classmates and creators

of Harvard Connection now called connectU,

filed a lawsuit against him a few months later.

They claimed that Zuckerberg stole their idea

and business plan and insisted that he needed to pay

for their business losses.

Facebook launched in February, 2004 and connectU,

three months later, but it struggled and was then shut down.

Zuckerberg maintained that the ideas were based

on two very different types of social networks.

Incriminating messages revealed that Zuckerberg

may have intentionally stolen the intellectual property

of Harvard Connection.

He later apologized, saying he regretted his actions.

The matter was eventually settled out of court.

It was during a frat party in his second year of college

at Harvard in 2003, that Zuckerberg met his better half

Priscilla Chan,

a Chinese American medical student from Boston.

They came from two different worlds,

but their hearts connected.

"He was this nerdy guy who's just a little bit out there,"

Chan told the New Yorker.

Early on in their relationship,

Chan set some strict ground rules,

because Zuckerberg was so busy with Facebook,

she apparently required one date night

and a minimum of 100 minutes of alone time per week,

not at Facebook.

They finally made the relationship official.

Zuckerberg may not have gotten a degree out of Harvard

but he met the woman that he would marry.

He declared years later, "she is the most important person

in my life, so you can say was the most important thing

I built in my time here."

In 2004, after his sophomore year

Zuckerberg dropped out of college to devote himself

full time on building the website.

He's not the first big name in Silicon Valley

to have dropped out of college and gone on to find success,

Apple co-founder, Steve jobs,

and two of the world's richest men, Bill Gates

and Tesla CEO, Elon Musk all dropped out of school

to start their own company.

After he dropped out of Harvard, Zuckerberg felt himself

growing wings and he and the Facebook team moved the company

to the other side of the continent to Palo Alto, California

where they opened its first office.

They partied a lot, but also worked even harder.

Thefacebook officially became Facebook.

And by the end of 2004, it already had 1 million users.

The website was and still is free to use.

Most of its earnings come from ads.

At first restricted to Harvard students,

it expanded over time to other colleges,

international schools and even beyond.

What I wanted to do when I was getting started

was simply just make a way for people to learn some things

about the people around them at university,

and be able to communicate with people around them.

So basically stay in touch with their friends.

And it's just turned out that over the past seven years

or so as the company excelled at that, wasn't just a need

that was fixed to my college or colleges in general,

the desire to stay connected with your friends and family

is I think a relatively universal thing across the world.

By December, 2005, it had 6 million users

and the growth didn't seem to slow down.

We're building a technology company.

So we focus on really technical solutions

to complex problems involving helping people communicate

in a lot of new ways.

So, I mean, as a technology company,

it would really only makes sense to work with someone

who shared values and stuff like that.

But I mean if you look at how we're growing,

we're really just at the beginning.

In may, 2005, as Facebook was already worth

around $100 million, the venture capital firm Xcel Partners

invested $12.7 million in the company,

which enable the expansion of the network even more.

The Facebook epidemic started.

Within four years it would overtake Myspace,

the most popular social network before Facebook.

In the long-term for Facebook is,

we're really just focused on our mission.

Just helping people share information.

We believe really deeply that if people are sharing more

then the world will be a more open place

where people can understand what's going on

with the people around them.

And that's really what we wanna get towards,

In September, 2006, Facebook announced

that anyone who was at least 13 years old

and had a valid email address could join.

If you look at the ways that people are sharing today,

I still think it's quite primitive compared to

what is going to be possible and the power that will be

in people's hands when we get to that end state.

And I think that that's gonna be awesome.

And that's something that I think is really worth

fighting for.

Zuckerberg was on his way to success.

He has said, "someone needs to build a service

like this for the world."

"But I just never thought that we'd be the ones

to help do it."

"And I think a lot of what it comes down to,

is we just cared more."

There are just so many interesting technical problems

specifically.

So I mean, just getting to work with a lot of smart people

on solving some of these huge problems,

I mean, it's just a really fascinating thing.

When Bill Gates became a billionaire in 1987

at 31, he was the youngest person to ever join

the three comma club.

In 2008, Mark Zuckerberg took that title

and he became the youngest ever self-made billionaire at 23.

Even today's wealthiest entrepreneurs,

didn't see that much success at such a young age.

And it took him just one year to make the leap from

millionaire to billionaire.

In 2009, Facebook had become the world's most

used social network.

The user base has now more than 2 billion people

using it every month.

Almost a third of the world's population.

This has made Zuckerberg, a billionaire many times over.

However, money wasn't his motivation.

About that time, he turned down many opportunities

to sell the site, often from multi-billion sums.

Instead he wanted to create a better user experience

and make the world better by making it a more open place

where people are able to share more

and understand what's going on.

In 2010, the movie The Social Network

based on Zuckerberg and the founding years of Facebook

was released.

Although he claimed that many details in the film

were inaccurate and objected strongly to its narrative

which he thought portrayed him in a bad light,

indeed the young Harvard freshmen was portrayed

as a brilliant genius without scruples

and socially awkward nerd.

The film was critically acclaimed and won

the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture in 2011.

He continued on his way to glory.

In 2010 Time Magazine named him Person of the Year.

In May, 2011, he bought a 5,000 square foot house

for $7 million in Palo Alto.

He and his girlfriend, Priscilla settled in their new home.

The next year, Zuckerberg began buying the

surrounding properties, spending more than $30 million

to acquire four homes.

On May 18th, 2012, Zuckerberg took Facebook public,

with an initial public offering at $38 per share.

They raised $16 billion,

making it the biggest internet IPO in history.

However, the shares price crashed dramatically

over the next months.

But it recovered in 2013.

At this time, the platform had more than 500 million

daily active users across the globe.

Zuckerberg's net worth was estimated at more than

$19 billion.

And he was only 28,

Just one day after he took the company public,

and in the span of their relationship,

he and Priscilla tie the knot in the backyard

of their Palo Alto home in a small surprise ceremony.

The newlyweds went off to spend their honeymoon

in Rome, Italy.

They adopted a dog the named Beast,

who's probably become the world's most famous mop dog.

Beast eventually became the older fur brother

to the couple's first baby girl, Max,

born three years later in December, 2015.

They would have another daughter later on in 2017

named August.

Zuckerberg has said that becoming a father changed the way

he saw the world and how he ran Facebook.

Back in 2010, another social network was created.

One that would become gigantic and there would end up being

the second, most popular social network in the world

after Facebook, Instagram.

This could only mean one thing,

it would be a threat to Zuckerberg's platform.

And so rather than compete with it,

Zuckerberg bought Instagram for $1 billion in 2012,

a shocking sum at that time, for a company with only

13 employees.

Instagram today has over 1 billion users

and contributes over $20 billion

to Facebook's annual revenue.

Facebook also purchased WhatsApp in February, 2014

for a total of around $16 billion.

Since 2008, the tech leader has now become

one of the most influential people in the world.

In 2013, Facebook cracked the Fortune 500 list

for the first time, making Zuckerberg at the age of 28,

the youngest CEO on the list.

And in December, 2016, he was ranked 10th on Forbes list

of the world's most powerful people.

Facebook is now a giant in the tech industry

and no empire is built without damaging something.

I think Facebook has become too big, too powerful.

And the problems that it's creating are significant

and we have the power to reign it in.

We just have to stand up and ask government

to make it happen,

With every success comes criticism.

Although the company has been successful,

it's last decade has also been full of scandals

and accusations.

Over the years Zuckerberg has had to face

several controversies, as he became one of the world's

most powerful people.

And Facebook has been accused of spreading fake news

and issues also included internet privacy.

In 2016 at the Facebook Social Good Forum

in New York City, Zuckerberg announced he had plans

to keep improving the platform.

I think about this work in a few different ways.

First, what can we do to prevent bad things from happening

in the world and to our community?

Second, what can we do when something bad

is actually happening?

And third, what can we do after something bad has happened

to help people out?

We're starting to do more proactive work.

Like when we use artificial intelligence to identify things

that could be bad or harmful and then flag them

so our teams can review them.

Or when someone shares a post that makes it seem

like they might wanna harm themselves.

And we give them, their friends suicide prevention tools

that they can share to get the help that they need.

Safety Check is an example of technology that we've built

to help people during a crisis.

Because when something's going on,

whether it's a natural disaster or a terrorist attack,

there's nothing more important than knowing

that the people you love and care about are safe.

Finally, when a crisis hits, we're also building tools

within Facebook that let people raise money and awareness

to help rebuild their communities.

And this is just the beginning.

The philosophy of everything we do at Facebook

is that our community can teach us what we need to do.

And our job is to learn as quickly as we can

and keep on getting better and better.

And that's especially true when it comes to

helping to keep people safe.

We're gonna keep finding new ways to empower our community

through technology and services in a way that's effective

and that helps people feel comfortable

when they need to use them most.

I'm really proud of the progress we've made

but I knew that there's a lot more than we need to do.

And that's why I hope that you're gonna be inspired

by what you hear today.

And more importantly,

I hope you'll help us build even more tools

to keep our community safe.

Then there was the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018

which was another hard blow to Zuckerberg.

He came under fire again

when he pushed the limits on user privacy.

It was revealed that the data analytics firm

with ties to President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign,

improperly obtained data from tens of thousands

of Facebook users.

The information was utilized to target voters

in the US presidential election.

The scandals shook investors confidence in Facebook.

As more people increasingly became frustrated

and angry with the company.

Following the reveal, Zuckerberg testified before Congress

in April, 2018.

He reminded people of the good Facebook can do

while acknowledging the bad it had done.

And as Facebook has grown people everywhere

have gotten a powerful new tool for staying connected

to the people they love, for making their voices heard

and for building communities and businesses.

Just recently, we've seen the Me Too movement

and the March for Our Lives organized at least in part

on Facebook.

After hurricane Harvey, people came together to raise more

than $20 million for relief.

And more than 70 million small businesses use Facebook

to create jobs and grow.

But it's clear now that we didn't do enough

to prevent these tools from being used for harm as well.

And that goes for fake news, foreign interference

in elections and hate speech, as well as developers

and data privacy.

We didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility

and that was a big mistake and it was my mistake.

And I'm sorry.

I started Facebook.

I run it.

And I'm responsible for what happens here.

In 2019, the FTC fined Facebook $5 billion

over violations of user privacy.

A record breaking fine for a tech company.

The database that Facebook has amassed is humongous.

It is no surprise that the company and its creator

have drawn a lot of controversies.

Many have struggled to understand the business model

of the social media giant.

For some, it has become too big to regulate

and they asked the question,

"should we still trust it?"

Zuckerberg's reputation was threatened many times over

and he has had to learn how to manage his anxiety

as well as his public image.

However, the negative image from his accusation

seemingly did little to slow the company's progress.

After a surge in his company's stock price in 2018,

Zuckerberg, unseated Warren Buffet

and became the world's third richest person

behind fellow tech billionaires, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates.

In the end, Zuckerberg seems to want to prove to the world

that he is just a normal person.

To this day he still wears a signature, casual gray T-shirt

and jeans on a daily basis.

Even in major business meetings.

His style is perhaps the most famous of all tech CEOs.

Seeing he consistently wears the same outfit.

However, don't be fooled,

these T-shirts are known to cost at least $300.

He revealed he wears the same clothes over and over again

because he wants to limit the time he spends

making decisions so he can concentrate on real work.

He inspires his employees to keep the office environment

casual, yet productive.

He has said, "I want to clear my life

so that I have to make as few decisions as possible

about anything except how to best serve this community."

With all this wealth,

there's one thing the billionaire doesn't seem to mind

splurging on, real estate.

And he has a knack for buying surrounding properties

to the ones he buys to ensure his privacy.

In 2014, his real estate portfolio jumped even more,

as he spent $100 million on two properties

on the Island of Kauai.

An immense former sugar plantation

and a huge property with a white sand beach.

Zuckerberg said he and Chan bought the land

because they're dedicated to preserving its natural beauty.

According to his Facebook page, the property's farm

is even home to goats and turtles.

He's also bought properties on Lake Tahoe

costing $59 million combined.

He owns in total 10 properties.

Zuckerberg doesn't appear to travel much for pleasure,

but when he does travel Facebook foots the bill.

In 2018, Facebook approved a record high

$10 million annual security budget for Zuckerberg

for bodyguards, security measures for his houses

and private aircraft.

On May 25th, 2017 at Harvard's 366 commencement day,

Zuckerberg received an honorary degree from Harvard.

He gave an emotional commencement speech

as he recalled his old days of the school

and how Facebook might never have happened

without him being there.

Change starts local.

Even global change starts small with people like us.

In our generation, the struggle of whether we connect more,

whether we achieve our greatest opportunities,

comes down to this,

your ability to build communities and create a world

where every single person has a sense of purpose.

In August, 2020, one of his genius moves

propelled Zuckerberg's personal net worth over $100 billion

for the first time.

Facebook launched in over 50 countries

a new Instagram feature that competed directly with TikTok

in the US, Instagram Reels.

We live in a society that never stops evolving,

Zuckerberg hasn't stopped innovating, and coming up

with new ideas.

He has understood that constant innovation is crucial

to make it in modern society.

We're here to talk about online platforms,

but I think the true nature of competition is much broader.

When Google bought YouTube, they could compete against

the dominant player in the video, that's the cable industry.

When Amazon bought Whole Foods, they could compete against

Kroger's and Walmart.

When Facebook bought WhatsApp, we can compete against telcos

who used to charge 10 cents a text message, but not anymore.

Now people can watch video, get groceries delivered

and send private messages for free, that's competition.

New companies are created all the time, all over the world.

And history shows that if we don't keep innovating

someone will replace every company here today.

And that change can often happen faster than you expect.

Today as the world battles the COVID-19

global pandemic and people are shielded at home,

Facebook has become a go-to communications tool.

Zuckerberg along with Jeff Bezos has had the biggest gains

in 2020.

The 36 year old became the third centibillionaire

on earth.

But for him starting Facebook was not about the money.

Little did he know that the small website he was running

out of his dorm room would become

the multi-billion dollar corporation it is today,

but he had a vision.

And he said, "the thing I really care about is the mission,

making the world open."

So thanks to Facebook profits,

Zuckerberg became the world's youngest billionaire.

He started a family

and bought up big multi-million dollar properties.

For sure his wealth has allowed him to have

a privileged life.

To most people, Mark Zuckerberg is only

the multi-billionaire CEO,

but there's also another way to see him.

He is also a devoted and loving father and husband.

He regularly shares candid photos of his family on Facebook

and the Instagram, to show the world that he is embracing

being a father.

But ultimately, luxury isn't the only thing

that Zuckerberg has put millions into.

In fact, his main priority is giving his money away

rather than spending it.

He has pledged hundreds of millions to charity,

at 36 he is doing his part to spread the wealth around.

Zuckerberg and his wife are generous philanthropists,

investing billions in childhood education

and medical research.

In 2010, Zuckerberg announced on the Oprah Winfrey Show

that he was donating $100 million to the public schools

of New Jersey.

Okay.

So okay, why education and why Newark?

Why education?

Because every child deserves a good education,

and right now that's not happening.

I've had a lot of opportunities in my life.

And a lot of that comes from, having gone

to really good schools.

And I just wanna do what I can to make sure that everyone

has those same opportunities.

The couple announced that year

that they were signing on to The Giving Pledge,

joining Bill Gates and Warren Buffet,

a commitment made by billionaires to give away

more than half of their wealth during their lifetimes

or in their wills.

"We will spend our lives working to make sure

future generations have the greatest opportunities

possible," the couple wrote in a letter.

In December, 2015, they founded

the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative,

that will focus on health and education.

And pledged to give away 99% of their Facebook stake

over their lifetimes to improve lives.

They have donated $25 million toward fighting

the Ebola virus.

And have said their goal is to cure all diseases

in the lifetime of their daughters.

A couple of weeks ago, Priscilla and I made a donation

to help the people on the ground leading the fight

against Ebola.

Stopping Ebola is something we both really care about.

The Ebola epidemic in West Africa

has become one of the biggest health crises in the world.

Thousands of lives have already been lost.

And if we don't act now, then many more people will suffer,

and Ebola could become a long-term global crisis.

At Facebook, we wanna make sure that we do our part

to help in the fight against Ebola

Amid the Corona outbreak in 2020,

Zuckerberg also donated $25 million

to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

that is searching for treatments for the disease.

Mark Zuckerberg changed the game of the internet forever.

Ever since Facebook came, everything's sped up,

connecting, advertising, marketing.

Everything started on this one platform.

And even today, when people claim that Facebook

is losing its popularity,

it gets roughly 7,000 people registered in every 15 minutes.

It is even popular in China where it's banned

by the government.

Almost everyone today who has access to the internet

has a Facebook account too.

However controversial it may be,

Facebook is in the game for the long run.

The tech industry is an American success story.

The products we build have changed the world

and improved people's lives.

Our industry is one of the ways

that America shares its values with the world,

and one of our greatest economic and cultural exports.

Facebook is part of this story.

We started with an idea to give people the power to share

and connect.

And we built services that billions of people find useful.

I'm proud that we've given people who've never had a voice

before, the opportunity to be heard

and given small businesses access to tools

that only the largest players used to have.

Since COVID emerged, I'm proud that people have used

our services to stay in touch with friends and family,

who they can't be with in person.

And to keep their small businesses running online

when physical stores are closed.

I believe that Facebook and the US tech industry

are a force for innovation and empowering people.

But I recognize that there are concerns about the size

and power of tech companies.

Mark Zuckerberg was only just 19

when he built the social media giant

out of his small campus dorm room

and changed the world and the internet forever.

Facebook has strived for more than a decade

after an extraordinary growth in size and influence,

the internet pioneer has led the company through the years,

through scandals, challenges and turmoil,

and yet, it is still standing.

Undoubtedly, it is an enormous success story.

Facebook now has more than 2 billion users

all around the world.

It has made people able to connect more than ever before.

Thanks to Zuckerberg, people around the globe

can easily keep in touch with all their families

and it rallies people together through groups and fan pages.

Not so long ago, society to not have such an opportunity.

So although its true value is debatable,

it's safe to say that Facebook and its creator,

are two of the 21st centuries, most influential,

controversial and powerful figures.

Mistakes were made along way, but they paid off in the end.

Taking risks is one of the secrets to Zuckerberg's success.

He claims, "the biggest risk is not taking any risk."

Mark Zuckerberg remained true to his initial vision

and his one social mission, connecting people,

building community and bringing the world closer together.

He has succeeded far and wide.

He has built an empire.

My top priority has always been our social mission

of connecting people, building community

and bringing the world closer together.

Advertisers and developers will never take priority

over that as long as I'm running Facebook.

I started Facebook when I was in college,

we've come a long way since then.

We now serve more than 2 billion people around the world,

and every day people use our services to stay connected

with the people that matter to them most.

I believe deeply in what we're doing.

And I know that when we address these challenges

we'll look back and view helping people connect

and giving more people a voice, as a positive force

in the world.

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