2015年12月3日 星期四

Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook

Entrepreneurial Trait ① - Networked



Mark Zuckerberg birth on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York, Mark Zuckerberg co-founded the social-networking website Facebook out of his college dorm room. He turn out Harvard after his sophomore year to concentrate on the site, the user base of which has development  to more than 250 million people, making Zuckerberg a billionaire. The birth of Facebook was quite recently portrayed in the film The Social Network. Zuckerberg was involved in various legal settlement of disputes  that were initiated by others in the group, who claimed a share of the company based upon their involvement during the development of Facebook.


In 2005, Zuckerberg's enterprise get a huge boost from the joint venture capital firm Accel Partners. Accel invested $12.7 million into the network, which at the time was only to league students. Zuckerberg's then granted to other colleges, high school, and international schools, the site's membership more than 5.5 million users by December 2005. The site began attract the interest of other companies, who wanted to advertize with the social. Not wanting to sell out, Zuckerberg turned down offers from companies such as Yahoo! and MTV. Instead, he focused on opening up his project to developers and adding more features.

Zuckerberg fielded questions during a live Q&A time at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park on December 11, 2014. The CEO tell that he does not believe Facebook is a waste of time because it facilitates social engagement, and participate in a during public was so that he could "learn how to better the community" Zuckerberg was the keynote speech at the 2014 Mobile World Congress (MWC), in Barcelona, Spain, in March 2014, which was attended by 75,000 deputy. Various media sources the connection between Facebook's focus on mobile technology claiming that mobile represents the future of the company.  Zuckerberg's speech expands the goal that he raised at the TechCrunch in September 2013, whereby he is working expanding Internet coverage into developing countries

Data network is a telecommunications network which computers to exchange data. Computer networks differ in the transmission used to carry their signals, the communications protocols to network traffic, the network's size, topology and organizational intent. Networks can interconnect with other networks and contain subnetworks.  A network is a group of two or more computer systems.

Some worry that this new environment makes us isolated and lonely. But in Networked, Lee Rainie, and Barry Wellman show the large, loosely knit social circles of networked individuals expand opportunities for learning, decision making, and personal interaction. Facebook's $19bn buyout of WhatsApp marked the coming-of-age moment for the mobile internet, which is making it possible for tiny start-ups to quickly reach global audiences - and command staggering valuations By Richard Waters and Tim Bradshaw

Credit: By Richard Waters and Tim Bradshaw )On July 13, 2015, Facebook became the fastest company in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to reach a market cap of $250 billion. On July 20, 2008, Facebook introduced "Facebook Beta", a significant redesign of its user interface on selected networks. On December 11, 2008, it was announced that Facebook was testing a simpler process.

Corporate affairs
Management
The ownership percentages of the company, as of 2012, are:
•    Mark Zuckerberg: 28%,
•    Accel Partners: 10%
•    Mail.Ru: 10%
•    Dustin Moskovitz: 6%
•    Eduardo: 5%
•    Sean Parker: 4%
•    Peter Thiel: 3%
•    Greylock Partners: 1 to 2%
•    Meritech Capital Partners: 1 to 2% each
•    Microsoft: 1.3%
•    Li Ka-Shing: 0.8%
•    Interpublic Group: less 0.5%

A small group of current and former employees own less than 1% each, including Matt Cohler, Jeff Rothschild, Adam D'Angelo, Chris Hughes, and Owen Van Natta, while Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus sizable holdings of the company. The remaining 30% or so are owned by employees, an undisclosed number of celebrities, and investors. Adam former chief technology officer and friend of Zuckerberg, resigned in May 2008. Reports claimed that he and Zuckerberg quarreling and that he was no longer interested in partial ownership of the company.

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