Alexia Tsotsis currently works at TechCrunch as a writer. She is also a blogger who attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. She majored in writing and art, moved to New York shortly after the end of the work in the entertainment industry and media. After four years of his life in New York and to attend courses in New York. ? Read More
Huffington Post found this a fascinating 5 minute interview with Mark Zuckerberg Facebook's Palo Alto Office in June 2005. The clip apparently is part of a 40-minute interview on the documentary about millennials shot Ray Hafner and Derek Franzese. Interviews that have never been shown in full, and if I were Hafner and Franzese I would figure out a way to make that stat, especially the post social network.
Zuckerberg's initial vision, "an online directory for colleges ' seems remarkably short-sighted, in view of the fact that Facebook users are now 11% of the world's population and 35% of the world's population. In retrospect, Zuckerberg can would put fratty red beer Cup (fun fact: he turned 21, also co-founder, Dustin Moskovitz, does a keg stand).
However, at that time, the site that Zuckerberg, modestly referred to as online directory for College, entered only 800 schools. the fact that Zuckerberg impressed seeing people using TheFacebook at College parties and by reports of people logged on at the international level suggests interesting as strategic has been a meteoric rise of social networking.
Its purpose at the time was extended to all United States colleges and 2000 when asked what was then the founder of Facebook said, "there does not need to be more. Many people are focused on capturing the world or the biggest things to do and get most users ... There is a level of service we can provide when we are in the College network, we would not be able to provide if we went to the other types of things. "
This is far away from Facebook's current motto, "make the world open and connected." But of course, hindsight is 20/20. I mean how else do you explain Zuckerberg and Reed Hastings, what makes this CNN "10 people who do not have a value list in 2006. Hilarious copy below.
In business, time is everything. Therefore, we'll give Zuckerberg credit for running his online social directory for students, just as is now getting craze of social networks. He also built his right, quickly making Facebook, one of the most popular social networking sites on the Internet. But there is something to say about knowing when to take the money and run. Last spring, Facebook reportedly turned down $ 750 million buyout offer, instead, as $ 2 billion. A bad move. After selling over Rupert Murdoch's Fox for $ 580 million last year, MySpace is now second most popular Web site. Facebook grows too-but given that MySpace quickly became the industry's 80-million-user Gorilla, it's hard to imagine who will pay billions for the also-ran.
Five years, an eternity in Internet time.
Facebook is the largest social network in the world, with more than 500 million users. Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in February 2004, originally as an exclusive network for students at Harvard University. He ...
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