Most of us know who Mark Zuckerberg is, and if you don’t, you probably live under a rock. He is known to be the “youngest billionaire in the world” according to the World’s Billionaires List, and has created a social media website that has expanded across the world – Facebook.

Facebook was initially created in order to connect Harvard students together, as Zuckerberg was a Computer Science student there. He innovated a way for students to keep in contact with each other through personal profiles that allowed them to post photos and exchange messages. However, in a short span of time (less than a month), nearly half the undergraduate population were using this site. Zuckerberg then expanded to Standford, Columbia, and Yale and then opened access to everyone over the age of 13. This resulted in a speed of wealth creation, as Facebook started to attract product marketers thereby generating revenue for Facebook.

Zuckerberg’s project did not occur without risks, as creating a social networking site was relatively unfamiliar, with the exception of myspace. Today, many people use facebook, and are even addicted to it because of it’s unique ways of connecting people together. His innovative and popular creation thus generated a great amount of wealth, making him the “youngest billionaire in the world”

This is a trailer of the movie “The Social Network”, which is based on Mark Zuckerberg’s process and consequences of creating Facebook.