{"id":46,"date":"2011-11-09T17:19:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T00:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kevmason\/?p=46"},"modified":"2011-11-09T17:19:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T00:19:24","slug":"the-international-innovator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kevmason\/2011\/11\/09\/the-international-innovator\/","title":{"rendered":"The International Innovator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guarantee that within the last hour, if not right now, you&#8217;ve been on the world&#8217;s most popular website: Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg is innovation. He had brought the simple social networking idea to a new level: connecting the world together. With the technology we have today, the world is already a lot smaller than it was 50 years ago. But with Facebook, Zuckerberg has made it that much smaller.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Mark Zuckerberg\" src=\"http:\/\/images.forbes.com\/media\/lists\/10\/2008\/I9UB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"168\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Forbes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Most people our age have used it just as a social media device; uploading photos, chatting with friends, etc. However when I watched David Fichner&#8217;s movie on the creation of Facebook, &#8220;The Social Network&#8221; (2010), I didn&#8217;t understand how the original idea of a &#8220;university network&#8221; could have worked. That is, until I came to UBC. I began using it for communication for group projects more than I did talking with friends. I used it to connect with commuter students while I stayed in residence. After seeing how Facebook was &#8220;originally used&#8221;, I was able to see how ingenious the idea was. Facebook wasn&#8217;t about being a simple networking site, it was about connecting people together.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg (along with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates for classic examples) is the definition of entrepreneur. As the QuickMBA article states, &#8220;an entrepreneur is a person of very high aptitude who pioneers change&#8221;. They create high amounts of wealth, innovation, and do so in a very short period of time. Facebook became a multi-million dollar business within 5 years. Jobs created the i-series which lead to Apple&#8217;s turn-around success. And Gates made the dream of having a peronalized home computer a reality. All of these people have changed the world because of their ideas (and because of their success they have attained a high amount of wealth\/power). These are living (or recently deceased) examples of modern innovators. To be more specific, life changing entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guarantee that within the last hour, if not right now, you&#8217;ve been on the world&#8217;s most popular website: Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg is innovation. He had brought the simple social networking idea to a new level: connecting the world together. With the technology we have today, the world is already a lot smaller than it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8601,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kevmason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kevmason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kevmason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kevmason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kevmason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kevmason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kevmason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kevmason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kevmason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/kevmason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}