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built for success the story ofFacebook SARA GILBERT
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the story of facebook On the afternoon of February 4 2004 Mark Zuckerberg sat down at his desk in the suite he shared with three other Harvard University students A few weeks ear lier the 19-year-old student had registered the domain name for a new Web site He had spent his entire winter break hunched over his com puter in his dorm room designing an online social network for fellow students Now he was finally ready to launch the new site As his com puter hummed to life amidst the empty en ergy drink cans and crumpled food wrappers Zuckerberg prepared to click the final button that would make Thefacebook com live and that would start a web of connections that quickly crisscrossed the campus the country and then the globe built for success
