03 Mark Zuckerberg
马克·扎克伯格，玩出来的富翁CEO

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01 Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook from Harvard University's dormitory rooms.

马克·扎克伯格是在哈佛大学的宿舍里创造出了Facebook。

02 He is best known as one of five co-founders of the social networking website Facebook.

他是社交网站Facebook的五大创始人之一。

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Personal life

Zuckerberg was born in New York. Zuckerberg was raised Jewish and had his bar mitzvah when he turned 13. Afterwards, he became an atheist. Zuckerberg excelled in classics. On his college application, Zuckerberg claimed that he could read and write French, Hebrew, Latin, and ancient Greek. Zuckerberg began using computers and writing software in middle school. His father taught him Atari BASIC Programming and later hired software developer David Newman to tutor（教导）him privately. He enjoyed developing computer programs, especially communication tools and games.

During Zuckerberg's high school years, under the company name Intelligent（智能的）Media Group, he built a music player called the Synapse Media Player that used machine learning to learn the user's listening habits, which was posted to Slashdot and received a rating of 3 out of 5 from PC Magazine. By the time he began classes at Harvard, Zuckerberg had already achieved a reputation（声望）as “a programming prodigy（奇才）”.

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扎克伯格出生于纽约的一个犹太人家庭，扎克伯格这个姓氏完全就是德语姓。他声称自己为无神论者。扎克伯格开始写程序是在中学时期。他的父亲在20世纪90年代曾教他Atari BASIC Programming，之后聘请软件研发者David Newman当他的家教。扎克伯格高中时很喜欢程序设计，特别是沟通工具与游戏类。20岁的扎克伯格虽然考入了知名的哈佛大学，但却是该学校计算机系和心理学系的辍学生。2004年，他在哈佛的大学宿舍创办了Facebook。在哈佛时，扎克伯格被誉为“程序神人”。

Career

Zuckerberg launched Facebook in his Harvard dormitory room in 2004. An earlier inspiration（灵感）for Facebook may have come from Phillips Exeter Academy, it published its own student directory, “The Photo Address Book”, which students referred to as “The Facebook”. Once at college, Zuckerberg's Facebook started off as just a “Harvard thing” until Zuckerberg decided to spread（传播）it to other schools, enlisting the help of roommate. After Zuckerberg moved to Palo Alto , they leased a small house that served as an office. Zuckerberg met Peter Thiel who invested in the company.

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2004年还是二年级学生的扎克伯格突发奇想，要建立一个网站作为哈佛大学学生交流的平台。只用了大概一个星期的时间，扎克伯格就建立起了这个名为Facebook的网站。很快，该网站就扩展到美国主要的大学校园，此外包括加拿大在内的整个北美地区的年轻人都对这个网站饶有兴趣。

妙语连珠

A lot of stuff that goes on with the company is really organic（有机的）right now and isn't necessarily formalized. Although, maybe it will be in a short period of time as we continue to grow. I think that as organizations grow, a lot of the issues and structure that's put in place is put there because a comfort level breaks down and people communicating freely in a way that they can't when they're friends. And if you're working with your friend, you can tell him or her whatever you're thinking, and it's not going to offend（冒犯）him or her. And they'll probably comprehend（理解）it similarly to how you imagined it. I mean language isn't really a perfect idea transmission vehicle.

So I think one of the things that I do focus on at Facebook is making sure that culture is very friendly and that people hang out. So instead of having 20% of people's time spent working on their own projects, I make people hang out with each other. So I think that by doing that, I can't force you to hang out outside work, but I can make it so that people are more comfortable with each other and can communicate more freely.

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在Facebook，有一点我十分关注，就是确保友好的企业文化，大家都泡在一起。我愿意让他们待在一起。我不能强迫大家工作之余也待在一起，但我可以让他们在相处的时候觉得更舒服，交流更自由。