If Facebook Flopped, Zuckerberg Would Have Headed to Microsoft

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a recent interview that if he hadn’t struck gold with the social network giant, he would’ve liked to work at Microsoft.

Zuckerberg spoke at Stanford University disspelling rumors about the site’s early days and what he would’ve done if Facebook never took off.

He said that he’s “always respected Microsoft” and could’ve seen himself as an engineer for them. Zuckerberg said that a summer spent in Palo Alto left him in awe of the tech companies rampant there.

The social networking pioneer also pointed out that he was always in favor of using online ads on Facebook, even in the early days. The ads, he told the audience, were the revenue his team used to purchase servers — one of the few times his company actually spent money.

And Zuckerberg said that Facebook‘s founders always wanted to expand the site past a profile page to include “sharing” features and even adding course catalogs to the networking tool.

“Facebook did grow quickly but it took a year for us to get a million users,” he said.

But Zuckerberg’s days at Harvard weren’t all about building Facebook. He admitted to the audience that he had to hack his way through his art history course. For a final in the class, he coded a website with 200 images and emailed the “study tool” to other classmates asking for their input on the significance of the images. Zuckerberg said, in a matter of hours, the site was filled with analysis that proved handy on the test.

“So you crowdsourced studying?” said interviewer Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator.

And, as always, Zuckerberg highlighted the power of connections that Facebook offers.

“Humans have the capacity to maintain empathetic relationships with about 150 people,” he said. “Facebook extends that.”

 Source : mashable