Mark Zuckerberg: Entrepreneur & Pioneer of Change.

As QuickMBA states, an entrepreneur is either “a person of very high aptitude who pioneers change” or “anyone who wants to work for himself or herself”.

Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of multibillion dollar social networking site Facebook is definitely one of the most successful entrepreneurs of today’s society. A Harvard drop out, Zuckerberg still managed to develop the skills needed to create Facebook, a combination of the concept of “traditional facebooks with large-scale social networking sites like Myspace and Friendster”.

By August 2005, Zuckerberg managed to expand his website from college networks to include high school and work groups and in September 2006, anyone with an email address was allowed to join Facebook. Today, there are more than 110 million active users. Facebook rates as the Web’s top photo-sharing site, and is the fourth most-visited site in the world, accounting for more than 1 percent of all internet use.

Zuckerberg said in a New York Times article that “Facebook has always tried to push the envelope. And at times that means stretching people and getting them to be comfortable with things they aren’t yet comfortable with. A lot of this is just social norms catching up with what technology is capable of.”

As QuickMBA also stated, the definition of entrepreneurship placed emphasis on innovation such as new products, production methods, new markets, and forms of organization. Through his creation of Facebook, Zuckerberg definitely accomplished all of the above.

Zuckerberg once stated, “”Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.” More than ever before, people all over the world are plugged in and are constantly connected to the rest of society through Facebook. I know I am, at least. Ask anyone, I’m almost constantly on Facebook either on my laptop or on my phone. Fact.