Michael Winicot - Facebook: Business Lessons from Mark Zuckerberg: Teachings from one of the most successful entrepreneurs of the world

Michael Winicott

FACEBOOK: BUSINESS LESSONS FROM MARK ZUCKERBERG

Teachings from one of the most successful entrepreneurs of the world.

2015 by Michael Winicott.
2015 by UNITEXTO
All rights reserved

Published by UNITEXTO

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.0 INTRODUCTION

2.0 BRIEF INSIGHT INTO MZS LIFE

3.0 THE 10 MOST IMPORTANT BUSINESS LESSONS FROM MZ
3.1 Follow Your Passion
3.2 Evaluate Your Progress Constantly
3.3 Challenge Yourself to Be Innovative
3.4 Always Try New Things
3.5 Look for New Opportunities all the Time
3.6 Be Useful To People
3.7 Have the Right Attitude
3.8 Reject Negativism or Intimidation
3.9 Your Team Is Your Strength
3.10 Be the Best Leader you can be

4. NOW, ITS UP TO YOU

We all know Mark Zuckerberg as the co-founder of the social media giant website: Facebook. His life story is an open book, and everyone knows how this remarkable man has changed the world ever since he launched Facebook as a social media platform.

He is a normal man, with normal intellectual capacity and lives a normal life. He began with a simple dream and worked towards a goal without ever knowing what the future held for him just like you!

Let us take a moment to ask ourselves this, How many of us believe in the fact that we all have as much potential to do wonders? Not many of us think so!

The truth is that most entrepreneurs do not have enough success in their career, and even in their middle ages, they continue to struggle. Then, what was different about Mark Zuckerberg? What secret does he hold in his hands that led to much more success than most of us can imagine?

At present, his estimated wealth is about $33.1 billion. How did he make so much out of his knowledge and expertise? Is he a genius? What does he have that you do dont? You would want to ask yourself many questions to find an explanation about why you are not having as much success as Mark Zuckerberg had at such a young age (thirty-one).

This is what you are about to find out in this book. You will learn business lessons directly from Mark Zuckerberg, and learn how to make the most out of these lessons. You can use the lessons in this book to turn your business around.

The truth is that there was no secret or magic spell to achieving so much success in such a short time. It was a bit of luck, and a lot of positive thinking and determination.

By now, you might be wondering what benefits you can gain from reading this book, especially if you are not a programmer or IT person like Mark Zuckerberg. This book is not limited to people like him or in the same professional niche as his. It is a book for everyone!

Mark Zuckerberg has been sharing his wisdom and insight into the key to his remarkable success. He has spoken to several crowds and shared a lot of information about how he became so successful. This book is also one of such guides and after reading it, you will gain many benefits.

You can be an entrepreneur working in any niche. So long as you have the inner willpower to make the most out of your life, you will! Once you read this book, you will walk away with the following:

• A lead on what direction to work towards for success in business
• You will be more confident about your future plans and financial success
• An insight into the qualities you have that you need to fine tune
• You will learn why you need to be flexible
• You will appreciate the fact that the path to success is within your reach
• You must have faith in your dreams

2.0 BRIEF INSIGHT INTO MZS LIFE

Lets start from the very beginning!

Mark Zuckerbergs birthplace is New York, at the White Plains. His birth year is 1984, and his parents were remarkable people Edward Zuckerberg (a dentist) and Karen Kempner (a psychiatrist). He grew up as the only brother of three sisters Randi, Donna and Arielle. Mark grew up in Dobbs Ferry, which is a small county town situated north of New York City. As a child, he was a major fan of Star Wars, like every regular kid.

He studied at Ardsley High School, and was always a good student. Later, he changed schools to Phillips Exeter Academy during his junior year. He won prizes in different subjects, including classical studies, physics, astronomy and mathematics. He became the captain of the fencing team, spoke different languages and became popular for reciting epic poems like The Iliad.

In time, he became a software developer. This interest in programming began after he first used his fathers computer. At eleven, he hired a tutor to learn writing software programs, and his father Edward taught him the Atari BASIC programming back in 1990s. His tutor,David Newman, prefers to call Mark a prodigy because he was always ahead of him. While kids loved playing games, Mark loved creating games.

Mark enjoyed programming so much that he took a graduate course while he was still in his high school. He learnt to apply communication tools and create games. He used his talent to create a local networking program for his fathers dental practice. It operated from their home and connected all computers between the office and their home, allowing smooth communications. It is what many consider the original version of AOLs Instant Messenger, and after seeing its success, Mark released it the following year as his first achievement.

Mark also built Synapse Media Player when he was in high school, under the sponsorship of Intelligent Media Group. This media player used machine learning to understand the users choice. When this app went up on Slashdot, it earned a rating of 3 out of 5.

At Harvard, Mark was already famous as a programming genius. He extended his education in computer science and psychology and wrote the program CourseMatch. This app allowed users to make their selections based on a comparison of choices other students made. This helped students to form study groups. Within a short time, he made a new program Facemash, which allowed students to choose the best-looking person in an array of photographs. This was something he did just for fun!

This was probably the birth of the concept of Facebook. At that time in college, they had books called Face Books. These had photos and names of students living in the dorms. At first, Mark built a basic site where he placed two photos of two males and two females. People visiting the site had to choose which was hotter of the two and vote.

Over a single weekend, the website overwhelmed the network switches at Harvard, and the college had to shut the website down. It was so overloaded that it prevented students from accessing the internet. Besides, some students complained about using their photos without permission. Mark apologized for this publicly.

The following semester, in 2004, Mark Zuckerberg began to write a new code for a website called thefacebook.

At that time, thefacebook was launched as just a Harvard thing and then Mark took the decision to introduce it within other institutes. Dustin Moskovitz (his roommate) remained his main supporter and worked hand-in-hand with Mark. Together, they began introducing thefacebook to Universities in New York, Columbia, Stanford, Penn, Dartmouth, Yale, Cornell, and Brown. During this period when the launch of Facebook first happened, Mark also shared his room with Samyr Laine, a triple jumper who was representing Haiti in the summer Olympics of 2012. Laine became the fourteenth user of thefacebook.

Shortly after this, Mark moved to California (Palo Alto), and his friend Moskovitz followed. Other friends also accompanied him because they had become a strong team together. Soon, they needed a proper office and a server to host their growing number of thefacebook users. By 2007, they received many offers to buy the company, but they refused.