LANDRY KAVINYA

Mark Zuckerberg is co-founder and CEO of the social-networking website Facebook, as well as one of the world’s youngest billionaires. SYNOPSIS Born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York, Mark Zuckerberg co-founded the social-networking website Facebook out of his college dorm room. He left Harvard after his sophomore year to concentrate on the site, the user base of which has grown to more than 250 million people, making Zuckerberg a billionaire. The birth of Facebook was recently portrayed in the film  The Social Network . Early Life Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York, into a comfortable, well-educated family, and raised in the nearby village of Dobbs Ferry. His father, Edward Zuckerberg, ran a dental practice attached to the family’s home. His mother, Karen, worked as a psychiatrist before the birth of the couple’s four children—Mark, Randi, Donna and Arielle. Zuckerberg developed an interest in computers at an earl...

In life we fail, sometimes once, sometimes twice, sometimes thrice and sometimes every time. So we decide to quit, because we did our best but it was not good enough. Sometimes too we succeed and then out of no where we make a little mistake and it makes us feel like we have failed totally. Oftentimes people look at our size, our height, our color, our country, our past and tell us we cannot achieve anything great. Sometimes we believe them, other ti mes we think they are right. So we quit and give up and we hide ourselves from the world and from the people who look up to us. We hide our dreams, we hide our passion, we hide our talent, we hide our skill, we hide our ideas. We coil and retire to being quiet and to stay out of trouble. But everyday we look at ourselves in the mirror and we hear the still small voice telling us, never give up and don't quit but we ignore it. We begin to resort to all avenues and mediums to help us feel okay. Sometimes we begin to calm ourselves wit...

You went to the same schools. You even interned at the same firm after college, boarding the same  matatus  to your cramped one-roomed SQs. Five years later, you are struggling to make ends meet and your former classmate is ten steps ahead of you. He has a fantastic job at a well-paying regional firm, one that has enabled him to live in the green leafy suburbs. He is driving a luxury car; you are queuing at the  matatu  stage, hoping that the rains find you in the house. He calls his personal banker to ask about his investment portfolio while you are ducking your  chama  because you don’t have money to pay your monthly dues. You had similar backgrounds, but now your lives look nothing alike. What could have made him so much more successful than you? While luck may come into play at some level, there are characteristics that make one more successful than the other at the workplace. Celebrated author Sean Covey studied highly successful people and realised ...