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Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook in 2004 while attending Harvard University. He created Facebook after developing two popular programs at Harvard and dropped out of college to focus on Facebook full-time. By the end of 2004, Facebook reached one million users. Dustin Moskovitz co-founded Facebook and Asana after leaving Facebook in 2008. Drew Houston co-founded Dropbox in 2007 while at MIT and it now has over 500 million users. Nathan Blecharczyk co-founded Airbnb, a platform for listing lodging rentals that now has over 1.5 million listings globally. Kevin Systrom co-founded Instagram after working at Google and developed a similar photo sharing app called Burbn.

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Technopreneur

Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook in 2004 while attending Harvard University. He created Facebook after developing two popular programs at Harvard and dropped out of college to focus on Facebook full-time. By the end of 2004, Facebook reached one million users. Dustin Moskovitz co-founded Facebook and Asana after leaving Facebook in 2008. Drew Houston co-founded Dropbox in 2007 while at MIT and it now has over 500 million users. Nathan Blecharczyk co-founded Airbnb, a platform for listing lodging rentals that now has over 1.5 million listings globally. Kevin Systrom co-founded Instagram after working at Google and developed a similar photo sharing app called Burbn.

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 Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg became known quickly as the go-to


computer programmer on campus (Harvard University). By his
sophomore year, he had already built two programs:
CourseMatch and FaceMash. Both programs became wildly
popular, but the university shut down the latter program
after it was deemed to be inappropriate.
Zuckerberg partnered with friends to create a social
networking site that allowed Harvard students to connect
with each other. The site officially went live in June 2004
under the name "The Facebook.”
After his sophomore year, Zuckerberg dropped out of
college to pursue what was now called Facebook, full-time.
By the end of 2004, the website reached one million users.

 Co-founded Facebook and Asana


He helped launch Facebook in 2004 with then-roommate
Mark Zuckerberg from their Harvard dorm. After leaving the
social network in 2008, he cofounded Asana, a workflow
software company.

 Founded Jumo
 Co-founded Facebook
Hughes founded a social network for nonprofits called
Jumo in 2010 and sold it one year later to publishing
company Good. JUMO is a mobile financial services platform
for mobile network operators and banks.
He was roommates with Mark Zuckerberg that’s why he
co-founded Facebook.
 Co-founder of Dropbox
On his father’s computer, Drew learnt C on his own,
signed up to a game, discovered some security bugs and
informed the company. By age 14, he was invited by the same
company to work with them. Before starting Dropbox, Houston
had already worked on several other startups, including
Accolade, Hubspot and Bit9. Dropbox is an online file
sharing service which Drew launched in 2007 with Arash
Ferdowsi, his MIT classmate. In addition to the service
being used by individual users, Dropbox has welcomed
150,000 company signups too till date.

 Co-founder and CTO of Airbnb


Nathan Blecharczyk is a known name in the industry of
bed and breakfast. He has provided lodging to more than 60
million guests through his Airbnb. It is a private website
where people can find and list lodging for rent. The site
features more than 1,500,000 listings across 34,000 cities
in 190 countries across the globe.

 Co-founded Instagram
In Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, he was
introduced to computer programming and his interest in
computer programming grew. Kevin Systrom used to create his
own levels in a game by name, Doom II by using his
programming skills. As he grew older, he used his
programming skills to create programs which pranked his
friends by seeming to hack their instant messenger and AOL
accounts. Kevin Systrom worked for Google for around three
years on many of its well-known products like Gmail, Google
Calendar, Google Sheets, etc. Kevin Systrom developed an
application by name, Burbn, which allowed location-based
photo sharing to its users. This app was very similar to
another app by name, Foursquare. And he created Instagram.
 Co-founder of Dropbox
Arash Ferdowsi is a cofounder of Dropbox, a file
sharing and storage service that has more than 500 million
users. Ferdowsi launched Dropbox in 2007 while he was still
a student at MIT, with MIT graduate Drew Houston, who is
the CEO.

 Co-founder of Snapchat
Evan Spiegel co-founded Snapchat, which he first
proposed as a class project, with friend Bobby Murphy
whilst still studying product design at Stanford University
in 2011. The sky seemed to be the limit for Snapchat in the
months before going public. Rebranded as Snap Inc. in
September 2016, the company unveiled its camera-equipped
Spectacles two months later and disclosed a revenue of more
than $400 million for the year.

 CTO and Co-founder of Snap Inc./Snapchat


The Second youngest billionaire, Bobby Murphy, is the
co-founder of the popular photo messaging app, Snapchat and
is succeeded on the list by its co-founder, Evan Spiegel,
the youngest billionaire. He met Evan at the University and
hired him for his first project, Future Freshman, a
helpline dedicated to offer aid in the college admission
process. Evan got the idea of creating a social media app
that deletes photos, after shared on it. The trio started
working on the app and named it Picaboo, but it wasn’t a
success. Murphy stated it as a humble start for their
project, for which, he had invested approximately 18 hours
per day for the development purpose. The app attracted a
few hundred users only and was on the verge of being
declared another failure. Murphy and Spiegel came out with a
new name, Snapchat, while the former worked on the addition
of some new features with minute changes.
 Founder of Tumblr
Bloggers around the world would agree that Tumblr is
the coolest blogging platform in the best that exist. Karp
found the site when he was a 20-year-old kid, a time when
most teenagers would still be struggling with their petty
teenage issues. Sometime back, David sold Tumblr to Yahoo
for a $1.1 billion and continues to act as a CEO of the
company. For creating a beautiful blogging world with 225
million users all by himself at a very young age, David
Karp was named the ‘Best young tech entrepreneur’ by
Business Week and as one of the top 35 entrepreneurs of the
world by MIT review.

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https://www.biography.com/business-figure/evan-spiegel
Forbes. (n.d.). #30 arash ferdowsi.
https://www.forbes.com/profile/arash-ferdowsi/
Forbes. (n.d.). #37 dustin moskovitz.
https://www.forbes.com/profile/dustin-moskovitz/
Nunez, M. (2019, July 26). How facebook cofounder chris hughes
made (and spent) his fortune.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mnunez/2019/07/26/how-
facebook-cofounder-chris-hughes-made-and-spent-his-fortune/
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of instagram. https://youthmotivator4life.com/instagram/
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https://successstory.com/people/bobby-murphy
Success Story. (n.d.). David karp success story.
https://successstory.com/people/david-karp
Success Story. (n.d.). Drew houston story.
https://successstory.com/people/drew-houston
Success Story. (n.d.). Nathan blecharczyk story.
https://successstory.com/people/nathan-blecharczyk
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Net worth, education, and influence.
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