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Mark Zuckerberg

10/25/13

@ Y Combinator

I didn't start Facebook to create a company; I started it because I wanted to build something personally meaningful and believed it should exist globally.

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Mark Zuckerberg at Startup School 2012

@ Y Combinator

10/25/13

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Mark Zuckerberg

08/17/16

@ Y Combinator

I created Facebook because my friends and I wanted a way to connect with others at Harvard, not because I thought it would become a company.

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Mark Zuckerberg

10/25/13

@ Y Combinator

I started Facebook while I was supposed to be studying, but I was more passionate about building something meaningful.

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Mark Zuckerberg

10/26/13

@ Y Combinator

I started Facebook at 19, knowing nothing about business, and didn't even realize I was starting a company.

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Mark Zuckerberg

10/25/13

@ Y Combinator

I initially built Facebook for myself as a college student, but I quickly realized its potential to serve a broader audience beyond just my university.

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Sheryl Sandberg

06/02/17

@ Stanford Graduate School of Business

I believe in what Facebook is doing, and I think we need global companies and voices to connect the 4 billion people who aren't online yet.

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JC B.

04/23/25

@ EO

Life is too short to waste time in school when there are 7 billion people on Earth; I wanted to contribute to something meaningful and believed starting a company was the fastest way to make progress.

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Sheryl Sandberg

06/02/17

@ Stanford Graduate School of Business

When I joined Google, I believed in its mission to provide the world with information, and at Facebook, I saw the potential for real identity on the Internet.

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Mark Zuckerberg

10/25/13

@ Y Combinator

Facebook was created to empower people to share and control their information in a way that wasn't possible before.

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Harvard Innovation Labs Cast

06/12/13

@ Harvard Innovation Labs

The journey of building a company is as important as the success itself; entrepreneurs often start companies to change the world as they see it.