David Kirkpatrick, author of The Facebook Effect, says Mark wants to control and avoid Wall StreetFew entrepreneurs have control over their company by their Series B, let alone when their company is valued at $21 billion - the current valuation (as noted by insiders) for Facebook. This is the rare situation that Mark Zuckerberg, the young founder and CEO, finds himself in. Unfortunately, for those on Wall Street - salivating for something new and exciting to trade - Mark is as determined to forgo the IPO route as he is to convert the entire world population into transparent humans - with every piece of information about themselves revealed. Yes, while Google wants to collect the worlds data, Facebook is trying to reveal the most personal pieces of it. And, Zuckerberg doesn't want Wall Street influencing ... [http://vator.tv/n/1122 read more]
@MrWwefan15 none of us can really know what he is really like anyway
shells156 1 year ago
@oooshitman9 most of it is taking out of context, there was no chicken thingy, he's been dating an asian chick since his sophmore year of college and if you look up interviews of him talking he's not a snide egotistical jerk who did this to get girls or money, he did it to start facebook out as a directory for college that's what a "facebook" is in computer terms a directory after teaming with sean parker it is "social directory", he did cuz he likes building things, selfish maybe, evil? nah!
MrWwefan15 1 year ago
after seeing Social Network i stopped using FB
oooshitman9 1 year ago
The book, and the movie, but no correlation. I'm a user of Facebook.
nellie2581 1 year ago