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Ten year later, what are the founders of Facebook today?

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On 4 February the powerful social networking site Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg’s company celebrates 10 years on the net with over 1,000 million users worldwide.

With 29 years, Zuckerberg firmly controls the social network with about 29% equity and 56% of the right to vote. His net worth exceeds $ 24 billion, placing at number 26 among the world’s richest, according to Bloomberg.

Featured in the technology sector, Zuckerberg is also involved with politics through an organization called FWD.us, who plays for system reform immigration and education.

Contrary to Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes remained at Harvard until obtaining their diploma. At age 30, gained notoriety when he headed the department of social networks in the presidential campaign of Barack Obama in 2008. In 2012 bought the magazine The New Republic “to help build a future for depth journalism in the digital age,” according to the website of this publication, of which he is editor and editor. Hughes also has a venture fund and a social network specializing in charitable activities.

The film The Social Network by David Fincher dririgida shown as Eduardo Saverin and Zuckerberg’s friend who had put the first funding for the social network, before being set apart in 2005.

Today, at 31, renounced his U.S. citizenship and moved to Singapore, before the entry of Facebook on the stock exchange, the you probably saved hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes.

Saverin said last year he wanted to stay in Asia with the hope of becoming an influential investor in technology. Forbes estimated his fortune at 2.650 million in August.

age of 29, Dustin Moskovitz, like Zuckerberg, he retired from Harvard before earning his title. He left Facebook in 2008 to create his own company, Asana mobile phone application that aims to facilitate teamwork without email. Is estimated to have a fortune of U.S. $ 5,200 million.

Although not officially listed as founders, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss twins accused Zuckerberg of having stolen the idea of ??the social network. Mutual agreement in 2008 gave them and another classmate Divya Narendra $ 20 million in cash and 45 million in company stock.

Both brothers participated in the Beijing Olympics 2008 rowing category. They also founded their own investment fund risk. Last year they published a draft income Bag Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust Company, with the intent to allow investors access to bitcoin, a virtual currency.

Sean Parker is the co-founder of the site Napster music sharing. Although it was not Zuckerberg’s classmate at Harvard, became his friend, mentor and advisor to the nascent company, and was one of the first to recognize its potencial.Parker was the first president of Facebook when it was created in 2004 and one took the first major investor, Peter Thiel, who currently manages the fund investment risk The Founders Fund. At 34, his fortune is valued at 2,000 million through September.

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