Tuesday 23 October 2012
Zuckerberg reveals Microsoft was his backup plan, if Facebook had failed
Posted on 03:22 by Maria Scott
Speaking at Stanford University, Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg
revealed that if his website had failed to pick up, he’d have gone over
to Microsoft to work as an engineer. What’s not clear is whether he
already had an offer or had hoped that the Redmond giant would hire him.
Zuckerberg did bring up the Harvard connection though, as a lot of Harvard graduates want to work for Microsoft. It could also be the fact that both Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard dropouts.
Zuckerberg took the opportunity to
address many issues, including rumours that he was against ads in the
nascent stages of Facebook. He said he in fact was all for them as the
revenue would have helped purchase more servers, as he was obsessed with
making sure the social networking site never experienced downtime. More
servers also meant that the website could expand the social net it
cast, allowing more user sign-ups which eventually led to the site
crossing the billion users mark.
Zuckerberg also shared with the audience
that the programmers at Facebook considered releasing a course catalog
to using the social networking site, especially the sections pertinent
to privacy.
Given how important online privacy has
become, a guide to using these features of Facebook would have been
extremely useful. Whether such a document will be released or not isn’t
clear, but we can only hope that it sees the light of day.
Source: http://www.thinkdigit.com/Internet/Zuckerberg-reveals-Microsoft-was-his-backup-plan_11128.html
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