Let’s first talk about the “birth” of Zuckerberg and Facebook.
Zuckerberg, who won numerous awards in various scientific fields during high school, was accepted into one of the most prestigious universities in the U.S., Harvard. There, he studied computer science, and during his first year, he created a site called facemash.com, where the most handsome and beautiful students were selected. The site contained photos of all the students at Harvard. One night, about 500 people visited the site. Of course, the system of those days wasn’t strong enough to handle that. As a result, the university administration investigated. Zuckerberg had to hack into the university’s database to get the photos. When it was discovered that he had hacked the database, Zuckerberg was disciplined and eventually left school.
If someone is an entrepreneur, it probably means they’ve been expelled or dropped out of school 80% of the time.
Mark’s facemash.com couldn’t stop getting traffic. After being expelled from school, he obviously didn’t want to give it up. He spread it to other schools, and each school had its own tag. He named it Facebook. One night, while having fun at a bar, a friend approached him and said, “Mark, your thing with girls is going well after this Facebook thing. Can you find out if this girl is in a relationship?” At that moment, Mark rushed home, opened his computer and his beer, and added the “relationship status” feature. This is how Facebook’s core features were added. There wasn’t really a specific plan. It grew and grew, and within 18 months, it became the largest social networking site in the U.S. Naturally, it caught the attention of investors, and Facebook became a company.
Of course, as we mentioned in the title, he made 500 million friends through Facebook, but this came with the cost of a few hundred enemies. There were those who claimed Facebook was stolen, those who said its software and design were copied, and the lawsuits kept coming. But he didn’t give up and kept moving forward. Today, he’s the world’s youngest billionaire, and in 2010, he was named Time’s Person of the Year.
As I’ve mentioned a million times in my previous articles, if you expect everything to go smoothly in your endeavors, you are marching step by step towards failure. True success is having one enemy for every 10 steps you take. True success is not being appreciated but being imitated. When you are imitated, those who can’t do it as well as you will envy you and attack you with lawsuits, words, and insults. That’s when you’ll know you’re on the right path.
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