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Despite the glowing tributes to superstar entrepreneurs that we all read about in the popular press, entrepreneurship is a team sport. Even Mark Zuckerberg, one of the richest men in the world, did not start Facebook by himself. Mark Zuckerberg, started the social networking site Facebook in 2004 as a sophomore college student at Harvard University. He launched the company on his strengths: a passion for technology and computer programming, which was self‐taught. He also started with some partners who added to and complemented his strengths. Co‐founder and former Vice President of Engineering, Dustin Moskovitz, was his roommate at Harvard. Former Facebook Chief Technology Officer Adam D'Angelo was Zuckerberg's friend in high school, where they wrote software for the MP3 player Winamp that learned your personal music listening habits and then automatically created a custom playlist to meet your tastes. Other cofounders, Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin, helped in the early years to promote Facebook.1 Although all were young, together they brought an understanding of technology and how young people like to connect and communicate with each other.
Arguably, one of the best tactical decisions Mark Zuckerberg made was to bring in Sheryl Sandberg, then VP of ...
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