Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

Mark Zuckerberg made an unannounced visit to Lagos, Nigeria last week on Tuesday, August 30, 2016. He then made an appearance at Andela, a software developer accelerator, which the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative invested $24million in earlier this year. Zuckerberg just came to confirm that for himself.”

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The funding came from Greycroft, Chicago Ventures, Slow Ventures, firstminute, plus angel ivnestors Steven Galanis, Randi Zuckerberg, Mr. Beasts' Night media, Sophia Bendz (Spotify), Cyan Banister, T-Pain and Zach Katz, plus others. Santa Monica-based social media app startup Mayk.it

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socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2021

The funding was led by Maven Ventures, along with Designer Fund, Mantis VC (the Chainsmokers Venture Fund), MS&AD Ventures and angels Randi Zuckerberg and Bill Tai, among others. The company says it has now raised $12M in total.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the move comes to help the company get ready for the "platforms of tomorrow." The deal also includes a potential of an additional $300M in earn out. Oculus VR will remain in Irvine, and continue developing its virtual reality product, Oculus Rift.

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Tech.Co

JULY 29, 2020

Mark Zuckerberg has announced that as many as 50% of Facebook employees could be working remotely within the next five to 10 years. . Zuckerberg pitched the idea as both a matter of satisfying employee desires, and also as an effort to create “more broad-based economic prosperity.” Remote Working: What is Facebook doing?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2012

According to a report> Tuesday afternoon from the New York Post, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook , is "eyeing" Kilar for a top job at the social networking firm. Apparently, Silicon Valley cannot get enough of Hulu CEO Jason Kilar.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

They are quick to point out that many of today’s top entrepreneurs, including Evan Williams (Twitter), Bill Gates (Microsoft), and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), dropped out of school to get on with their dreams. Contrary to a popular myth, a great invention and passion alone won’t drive a great business. Good business basics are not intuitive.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The Breakthrough Prizes, now it their seventh year, tout themselves as the world’s biggest prize in science and are sponsored by Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, Ma Huateng, Yuri and Julia Milner, and Anne Wojcicki.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

After Facebook posted a record profit of almost $7 billion in the fourth quarter on nearly $17 billion in revenue last week, an early investor, former advisor to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and current shareholder said he’s making it a mission to “fix’’ the 15-year-old tech giant.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

Zuckerberg. I don’t know Mark Zuckerberg. But I would make the observation that if you stumble on to a really important idea that has the potential to be really valuable know that others will enter into the market precisely because markets are competitive and a lot of money and prestige is at stake. In fact, think about it.

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socalTECH

MAY 20, 2011

Are You Mark Zuckerberg, Colonel Sanders, or John DeLorean? The mythology of Mark Zuckerberg starting a business at nineteen, immediately succeeding, and becoming a billionaire by age twenty-five is now considered a template for millions of young aspiring entrepreneurs. Why do entrepreneurs fail? Nobody likes to talk about failure.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2012

TMZ said the two purchased an $18M home -- thanks in part to $65M from a settlement with Mark Zuckerberg, over their role in the founding of Facebook.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2011

The article--which also ragged on such tech notables as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg--said that Anderson is a "a victim of over-layering", particularly for his penchant for wearing a "T-shirt, hoodie and blazer all at once.".

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socalTECH

JUNE 22, 2015

Startup Vitamins sells all kinds of motivational posters to corporate offices, with clients such as Zappos, Nike, Google, Path, LinkedIn, Twitter and others--featuring quotes from Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and many others. The displays from Enplug take those posters from static, traditional wall posters to dynamic, interactive screens.

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Xconomy

APRIL 18, 2018

As publicity-shy Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before both houses of Congress last week amid an avalanche of criticism about the dearth of user privacy on the world’s biggest social media network, it became crystal clear that the entire social media industry has entered a new and perilous phase.

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Xconomy

MARCH 21, 2018

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried to reassure users Wednesday that its new and old modifications will prevent the wholesale capture of millions of personal profiles, like the 50 million that fell into the hands of political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica by 2015.

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socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2015

The two--who made their fortune via a highly publicized lawsuit against former Harvard classmate and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg--had said two years ago that they were acquiring the mansion to set up a West Coast presence for their investment firm, Winklevoss Capital, to invest in companies here.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 14, 2010

Seems like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg could soon be living his worst nightmare. I truly hope not. I love Facebook. The air is filled with Facebook germs right now and he needs to disinfect fast. Additionally, Twitter is powerful enough to bring the whole thing down on its own, IMHO.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

Battery isn’t the only marquee investor to find value in ServiceTitan’s business developing software managing day labor.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 23, 2018

Company CEO Mark Zuckerberg had already announced Friday. For example, advertisers will have to unmask their identities and reveal who’s funding their ads, Facebook civic engagement team member Samidh Chakrabarti wrote in a blog post. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system.

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Tech.Co

JULY 13, 2023

Despite a packed schedule of obnoxious tweeting, lawsuits, and organizing a cage match with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk has found time to launch a new AI company called xAI.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Milken joined Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and others in taking the Giving Pledge on Wednesday, an effort co-founded by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates, to get America's wealthiest families to focus on philanthropy.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

Namesake said the project came out of an experience started by the livestream of President Obama, Mark Zuckerberg, and 700 Facebook employees on April 20th, which it said spurred "hundreds" of its users to start interesting conversations around the event.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg envisioned Facebook as a virtual social network built on a lifetime of friendships, while offering advertisers a powerful and targeted marketing tool. Innovative yet pragmatic. Persuasive and empowering.

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Eric Greenspan

APRIL 11, 2019

It reminds of the Mark Zuckerberg Facebook story. A quick search at TED doesn’t show results of any Mark Zuckerberg talks, and you know what, I’ll bet they’ve asked. She just did it and she worked harder than anyone you know, but you’d never know it, because to her, it wasn’t work, it was her passion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2021

Thus you drop out of school to start the business of your dreams, like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. At some stage of your education, you realize that you can learn faster, and get more satisfaction, in the real world than in a academic environment. Advanced degrees won’t help you run your startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2022

Tracy defines the five key ingredients of happiness that every potential and existing entrepreneur, including Mark Zuckerberg (and every non-entrepreneur), should evaluate relative to their own situation: Happy relationships. Fully 85 percent of your happiness – or unhappiness – will come from your relationships with other people.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, is currently the most famous introvert entrepreneur, so don’t let anyone tell you it can’t be done. On the positive side, many attributes of an introvert lead to better business decisions, such as thinking before speaking, building deep relationships, and researching problems more thoroughly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2022

Zuckerberg had so much confidence and determination to stay independent that he turned down an early $1 billion offer from Yahoo. But never take your eye off today’s customer. Getting acquired or going public should be a result, not an intent. A focus on looking good as an acquisition or IPO candidate has undermined many startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

For example, even though Mark Zuckerberg built Facebook as an innovative product, most experts believe it was successful due to his relationship with Peter Thiel and other top VCs that he convinced to invest early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

I’m told that Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook started out as a lifestyle entrepreneur. Younger Gen-Y entrepreneurs also tend to be more passionate, idealistic and not driven by money, so I would expect to see them trend up in lifestyle entrepreneurship. I wonder if his billions today have changed his mind? Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 30, 2012

Other installments include: Jeff Bezos , Steve Jobs , Richard Branson , Walt Disney and Mark Zuckerberg. Mark Zuckerberg shared a similar sentiment, which he augments by stating that Facebook has striven to maintain a beginner's perspective. Note: This is an installment in the Iconic Advice series. " [Tweet this quote].

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2011

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg was ranked 52, with $13.5 Bill Gates continues to be the wealthiest American on the list at number two, with a fortune of $56B; Larry Ellison was number 5 with $39.5 billion, and Google's Larry Page were number 24 and 25, respectively, with $19.8 billion each. billion in net worth. billion.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Other installments include: Jeff Bezos , Steve Jobs , Mark Cuban , Richard Branson , Walt Disney , Mark Zuckerberg , Michael Dell and Larry Ellison. Other installments include: Jeff Bezos , Steve Jobs , Mark Cuban , Richard Branson , Walt Disney , Mark Zuckerberg , Michael Dell and Larry Ellison.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Many of his original investors still remember when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg first related his personal challenge to only eat meat that he killed himself, in an effort to learn sustainable farming and consume resources responsibly.

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