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Mark E. Zuckerberg ’06: The whiz behind thefacebook.com | News | The Harvard Crimson

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Harvard Endowment Appoints 3 New Directors, Including JPMorgan Exec Who Managed Epstein’s Bank Accounts Thousands of students across the country use it. Major corporations are falling over themselves to buy it. But nearly a semester after creating thefacebook.com, a social networking website launched on Feb. 4, Mark E. Zuckerberg ’06 doesn’t seem to have let things go to his head. Wearing a yellow t-shirt, blue jeans, and open-toe Adidas sandals, Zuckerberg sits on a ragged couch in the middle of a messy Kirkland House common room, surrounded by strewn clothes and half-closed boxes. Amidst this squalor, he smiles. “I’m just like a little kid. I get bored easily and computers excite me. Those are the two driving factors here.” Thefacebook.com allows university students to create personal profiles listing their interests, contact info, relationship status, classes and more. It started locally at Harvard. It now has almost 160,000 members from across the country. “I do stuff like this all

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