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15 unusual facts about Mark Zuckerberg


Bad Samaritans

Prior to community service, he had no real ambition in life other than to be a professional gamer and become wealthy overnight like Mark Zuckerberg.

College Media Network

In June 2004, Y2M executed an agreement negotiated by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin to become the exclusive independent sales organization for The Facebook.

Facebook Beacon

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, said on the Facebook Blog in November 2011 that Beacon was a "mistake".

Facebook, Inc. v. StudiVZ Ltd.

Facebook, Inc. operates a social networking website, that was originally founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 while he was a student at Harvard University.

Frictionless sharing

The term became popularised following Mark Zuckerberg's announcement at the F8 developers conference in 2011 in which he described developments to Facebook which would allow "real-time serendipity in a friction-less experience".

Harry R. Lewis

and Mark Zuckerberg, whose website "Six Degrees to Harry Lewis" was a precursor to Facebook.

Katherine Losse

While working at the social media company, her roles included customer support, international development, and ghostwriter for CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Marc Maiffret

To prove that he was telling the truth, Shreateh posted material to Sarah Goodin's wall, a friend of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Noa Tishby

Noa was on The 2012 Jerusalem Post list of the 50 most influential Jews in the world alongside Benjamin Netanyahu, Natalie Portman and Mark Zuckerberg.

TeaMp0isoN

In January 2011, unauthorized status updates were posted on Mark Zuckerberg and French President Nicolas Sarkozy's accounts on social-networking site Facebook.

The BrandLaureate

Some of the recipients of the BrandLaureate Award include Hillary Clinton, Nelson Mandela, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Tiger Woods and Michael Schumacher.

The Seminar

After his mom told him to hang out with his "smart" friends, Jim told his friend that "mom thinks you're too dumb to hang out with." Jim eventually bumps into the guy in the break room, and tries to laugh off their history, but the guy mocks Jim for not being as successful as his superior intellect would have indicated, and snarks "Where's your jet pack, Zuckerberg?"

True/Slant

Blogger Kashmir Hill from T/S discovered a change to the status of Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page, which allowed friends of his friends to see about 300 of his previously private photos.

Umar Saif

By featuring in the list, Saif now joins an elite group of researchers and technologists including the likes of Google’s Sergey Brin and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.

Wget

The lead character, based unofficially on Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, uses Wget to aggregate student photos from various Harvard University housing-facility directories.


Appletini

In the 2010 film The Social Network, in the initial meeting between Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin and Napster co-founder Sean Parker, Parker buys the table a few rounds of the drink.

John-Paul Lee

Most recently, America.gov featured John-Paul in their gallery of successful start up entrepreneurs alongside Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Russell Simmons, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Kevin Plank, & Mark Zuckerberg.

Loan-a Lisa

At a meeting of entrepreneurs, Lisa tries to persuade Nelson to stay in school, but she fails when she discovers that the attendees all left college (including Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Richard Branson), and that the janitor is the only person present who did not drop out.

Reid Hoffman

According to David Kirkpatrick's book The Facebook Effect, Hoffman arranged the first meeting between Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel, which led to Thiel's initial $500,000 angel investment in the company.

Ruchi Sanghvi

These privacy controls were coded in a hectic 48-hour coding session by Sanghvi and other Facebook engineers including Chris Cox and Adam Bosworth, and announced in a contrite blog post by Facebook's principal founder Mark Zuckerberg.