I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we've funded ever since by putting ads on the side.
Mark ZuckerbergSimply put: we don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services.
Mark ZuckerbergIt only took me two weeks to build the first version of Facebook because I had so much stuff before then.
Mark ZuckerbergI think there's confusion around what the point of social networks is. A lot of different companies characterized as social networks have different goals - some serve the function of business networking, some are media portals. What we're trying to do is just make it really efficient for people to communicate, get information and share information.
Mark Zuckerberg