Facebook Founders
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To date, Facebook has been more or less a one-man band. It was Zuckerberg's baby. But he wasn't arrogant: he knew that for the project to grow and realize its full potential, he had to bring other people on board. He recruited four colleagues from his social circle at Harvard to help him develop and promote Facebook further.
Each of Zuckerberg's recruits had their area of expertise and responsibility. Eduardo Saverin, a Brazilian student who was president of the Harvard Investment Association, had already proven his business skills by making a $300,000 profit from strategic investments in the Brazilian oil industry. He became Facebook's chief financial officer and business manager. It was Saverin's money, along with Zuckerberg's, which sustained the company during its first few months, and both men took equity stakes in the company.
Zuckerberg's roommate, Dustin Moskovitz, who had been there, watching, the night Zuckerberg launched Facebook, came on board as a programmer. He was the company's first chief technology officer and then vice president of engineering, and in March 2011 Forbes magazine would declare him to be the youngest self-made billionaire in history. He was just 26 years old.
Andrew McCollum did the graphic design work. He worked at the company for its first three years then returned to Harvard University to complete his undergraduate degree, and then to do a Masters.
The final member of this founding team was Chris Hughes. He had met Zuckerberg during his freshman year in 2002, and beta-tested many of Zuckerberg's early designs, as well as making product suggestions. Hughes became a Facebook spokesman, and it was his idea to open the site to schools, paving its way for global expansion. He traveled with The Facebook team to Palo Alto in the summer of 2004, but unlike his colleagues, decided to return to Harvard to complete his degree. He would rejoin them in California after his graduation in 2006.