Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg is the CEO of Facebook, which he founded in 2004. Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, families and coworkers. Mark is responsible for setting the overall direction and product strategy for the company. He leads the design of Facebook's service and development of its core technology and infrastructure.

Mark attended Harvard University and studied computer science before moving the company to Palo Alto, California.

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Lukas Kubina 18/05/12

The Network Value - Facebook's Historic IPO

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in his Harvard college dorm room eight years ago. 900 million users have joined since, 13 million are subscribed to him, we even have a few mutual friends. The site is a directory of the world’s people, and a place

Lukas Kubina 03/01/11

Facebook has raised $500 million

According to a report in The New York Times, Facebook has raised $500 million in new funding from Goldman Sachs and Russian firm Digital Sky Technologies – and now is worth $50 billion. Goldman invested $450 million, while DST (which has already

Lukas Kubina 15/10/10

Social Search

Microsoft's search engine Bing is pushing social search forward by integrating more deeply with Facebook. The two companies already collaborated before with Bing providing search results in Facebook and using public Facebook data to create a

Lukas Kubina 08/10/10

Creative Disruption

The Internet enables dramatic change in the way that businesses can operate - this is what Simon Waldman calls the new "physics of business". Schumpeter stresses that businesses go through 'creative destruction'. He pointed out the importance of

Lukas Kubina 06/08/10

Facebook - social networks and statehood

Under the title "The future is another country", an article in The Economist examines the social network and its nation-state like features. In some ways, it might seem absurd to call Facebook a state and Mark Zuckerberg its governor. It has no land