How Facebook is made: Zuckerberg talks about starting a business

In recent days, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, attended the Y Combinator start-up school and had an easy talk with famous American programmers, venture capitalists, bloggers and technology writer Paul Graham Paulgraham. In the conversation, Zuckerberg talked about the first program he developed, he was not afraid to make a wrong outlook on life and the social network linked to everyone in the world's mission.

The first question Zuckerberg was asked was, what was the first program he developed? Interestingly, it is not Facemash (the predecessor of Facebook), but marshalling Graph (he has accused the famous Hollywood writer Alan Sorkin of his film "The Social Network" (The Social receptacle). He set up Apache and SQL Servers to practice developing new programs. At that time, 2000 users from Harvard University were using his services and entering their course information.

Marshalling graph ultimately sets the foundation for Facebook's developer ecosystem, because he wants to build a foundation where others can use his technology to develop applications and services. Zuckerberg said he was focused on directing communities to build core assets.

At Harvard's reading-teaching phase, Zuckerberg issued the original version of Facebook. Now, this way of reading teaching has been canceled. Graham points out that both Facebook and Microsoft started in the "Reading teaching phase" of the university. "Harvard is used to canceling effective practices," Zuckerberg joked. ”

Graham asked why early Facebook had been able to successfully expand into other universities when other universities already had similar services? Mr. Zuckerberg replied that this could be because of Facebook's introduction of a real-name real-name. He says his framework system allows people to share personal information freely, while similar services such as Stanford University, Columbia University and Cornell University are not set up to allow individuals to express themselves freely.

Would Zuckerberg have developed Facebook if he hadn't built Facemash? He said he was faced with the fate of being expelled from school, and a few friends held a farewell party for him. He met his future wife at this meeting. He quipped that his family and many friends thought he would drop out of school.

Zuckerberg's entrepreneurial philosophy

To Mr Zuckerberg's surprise, Facebook eventually became a social network for everyone to flock to, much more well-known than those who built their Web services with more resources. He said, "We're just more focused on it." He intuitively believed that people needed it and believed it.

The best ideas in the world are things you like to do and that you can do better than others. Mr Zuckerberg, for example, Internet.org is an example of the organization's commitment to making the Internet accessible to people all over the world. We don't have a business model, he says, but rich people are already on Facebook.

What is his management style? No one has ever been good at recruiting people from the start, Zuckerberg said. He also after a period of groping to find a "set of feasible way". The founders should recruit people who can learn from themselves--great people, not just others.

Great things are created by a group of the most attentive people. The Facebook CEO says people shouldn't worry about making mistakes because you make mistakes in your life. You should overcome your difficulties and move forward rather than downcast.

So is Facebook making more or less mistakes than any other company? ' Facebook has made more mistakes than anyone else, ' Mr. Zuckerberg said. He remembers seeing a lot of great companies on Highway 101th along the way to Silicon Valley, and he was wondering if he could start a great company in the tech industry.

After launching social networking Facebook, Zuckerberg is committed to creating a platform. He believes that "people-oriented" should be the company's core philosophy.

If the competitor launches a feature that Facebook does not have, the company will start the "problem-locked" mechanism, where the entire team is at home, studying until the problem is solved. Now, Zuckerberg joked, they have done so in response to privacy concerns.

In the final stages of the interview, Graham asked Zuckerberg what he was most concerned about, which was the most difficult question for him. He replied that he now obsessed to connect with everyone in the world. As expected.

This is the second time that Zuckerberg has been involved in such activities since the company's IPO. When the company went public, the stock performance was not as good as people expected. But this year, he rallied, succeeded in implementing a mobile strategy, and greatly pushed up the share price (it closed at $54.22 in Friday).

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)