Friday, 26 October 2012
Speaking at Stanford University, Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg revealed that if his website had failed to pick up, he’d have gone over to Microsoft to work as an engineer. What’s not clear is whether he already had an offer or had hoped that the Redmond giant would hire him.
Zuckerberg took the opportunity to
address many issues, including rumours that he was against ads in the
nascent stages of Facebook. He said he in fact was all for them as the
revenue would have helped purchase more servers, as he was obsessed with
making sure the social networking site never experienced downtime. More
servers also meant that the website could expand the social net it
cast, allowing more user sign-ups which eventually led to the site
crossing the billion users mark.
Zuckerberg also shared with the audience
that the programmers at Facebook considered releasing a course catalog
to using the social networking site, especially the sections pertinent
to privacy.
