Facebook Founder and Internet Entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg

by Kari Cornell

Overview

Do you have friends or family members who use Facebook? That social networking website is the brainchild of Mark Zuckerberg. He has helped Facebook grow into a company that has almost one and a half billion users worldwide.

Zuckerberg has been interested in computers for a long time. He began writing code when he was just twelve years old. Microsoft even offered to buy one of his programs while he was still in high school. When Zuckerberg created Facebook from his college dorm room, few could have guessed it would become the multibillion-dollar company it is today. Find out how Zuckerberg became a computer programmer who forever changed the way people connect online.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467795272
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/01/2016
Series:	STEM Trailblazer Bios Series
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	1010L (what's this?)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Kari Cornell is a freelance writer and editor who lives in South Minneapolis with her husband and two young boys. When she's not working or spending time with her family, she loves to cook, tinker in the garden, knit, or run. She feels fortunate that she's been able to combine many of the activities she likes to do in her free time with her day job. Cornell is the author of several cookbooks for children, including Cooking the Turkish Way and Cooking the Indonesian Way. She is the co-author of Growing with Purpose: Forty Years of Seward Community Cooperative

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Growing Up 4

Chapter 2 Off to Harvard 10

Chapter 3 The Facebook Is Born 14

Chapter 4 Growth and the Move West 20

Chapter 5 Facebook's Success 24

Timeline 29

Source Notes 30

Glossary 30

Further Information 31

Index 32

Editorial Reviews

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