Whose idea was Facebook?
Quick Answer
Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room on 4 February 2004, with co-founders Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
The Full Story
Zuckerberg first built a site called Facemash in 2003 before launching TheFacebook for Harvard students in February 2004. Within a month, over half of Harvardβs undergraduates had signed up, and it soon spread to other universities. Twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss claimed he had stolen their idea, and they later settled for about 65 million dollars in cash and shares. Facebook opened to anyone aged 13 and over in 2006 and went public in 2012. In 2021 the parent company renamed itself Meta, and Facebook now has more than 3 billion monthly users.
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