Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook's principal founder and CEO) pens a long note on his personal Facebook titled "Building Global Community" that talks about supportive, safe, informed, civically-engaged, and inclusive community. The note receives widespread discussion, including comparisons with a political manifesto. 2017: March 23

Facebook: The World's Most Popular Social Network In 2004, Napster founder and angel investor Sean Parker became the company's president. The company changed the site's name from TheFacebook to just Facebook after purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000.

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (/ ˈ z ʌ k ər b ɜːr ɡ /; born () May 14, 1984) is an American media magnate, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist.He is known for co-founding Facebook, Inc. and serves as its chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder. He is also a co-founder of the solar sail spacecraft development project Breakthrough Starshot and serves as one of its ...

Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, all of whom were students at Harvard University. Facebook became the largest social network in the world, with more than one billion

Eduardo Luiz Saverin is a Brazilian billionaire entrepreneur and angel investor. Saverin is one of the co-founders of Facebook. In 2012, he owned 53 million Facebook shares, valued at approximately $2 billion at the time. He also invested in early-stage startups such as Qwiki and Jumio. Saverin renounced his U.S. citizenship in September 2011, thereby avoiding an estimated $700 million in capital gains taxes. This generated media attention and controversy. Saverin stated that he renounced his ci

Facebook's initial public offering came on May 17, 2012, at a share price of US$38. The company was valued at $104 billion, the largest valuation to that date. The IPO raised $16 billion, the third-largest in U.S. history, after Visa Inc. in 2008 and AT&T Wireless in 2000. Based on its 2012 income of $5 billion, Facebook joined the Fortune 500 list for the first time in May 2013, ranked 462.

Mark Zuckerberg is co-founder and CEO of the social-networking website Facebook, as well as one of the world's youngest billionaires.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg co-founded the company that would eventually dominate the social media industry in 2004, when he was a sophomore at Harvard University. The site's first iteration ...

Facebook has come a long way since Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes, Eduardo Saverin, and Dustin Moskovitz were college students at Harvard working on a side project then called The Facebook.