Thursday, September 30, 2010

It is all about the Benjamins

Getting rich of the media is no news to us. A 19 year old Harvard freshman makes billions of 500 million users of Facebook. After he was dumped by his girlfriend in 2003, he decided to just play around with his computer, and hence Facebook and a billion dollars in his account. Mark Zuckerman who was born in West Chester, N.Y is now in a billionaire of the media sensation- facebook. It has also been publicly announced that he is giving $100 million to the public schools of Newark, N.J.

Though, there are several controversies as to who is  the founder of Facebook, he is claimed  to be the co- founder of Facebook. Three other Harvard students claim that Mark Zuckerman stole their original idea, since Mark was hired by them to help them in making Facebook. Though, a lawsuit is pending, Mark  Zuckerman, now 26 years old is enjoying his new found riches, he's made out of the media.

Mark Zuckerman, co-founder and chief executive of Facebook, the world's largest social- network, is not only known for its membership, but a money making business where ads, information, updates of so many different things are displayed. It was reported in the New York Times that in 2005, Zuckerman turned down MTV Networks, who wanted to buy Facebook for seventy-five million dollars, and Yahoo! and Microsoft who wanted to buy it for much more.

 The media has been known to promote sole proprietorship businesses. It took a freshman to sit by his computer to make a business out of just clicking "stuff" and putting things together. It sure would be nice to  start a sole proprietorship business of something as easy to access as- the internet, the most convenient source of spreading your business.

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