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Mark Zuckerberg Was SUED by the Friends Who Built Facebook With Him

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He wired billions of strangers together. Yet he could barely connect with friends in his own dorm.

Mark Zuckerberg was a quiet kid from New York who spoke best in code.

In 2003, the Harvard sophomore built Facemash, a reckless site ranking classmates by looks. It nearly got him expelled.

But the idea survived. In February 2004, from his dorm, he launched thefacebook.

Within weeks it spread across the Ivy League. Friends helped fund and build it.

Soon those same friends sued. Twins claimed he stole their idea; a co-founder said he was forced out.

He settled, dropped out of Harvard, and kept building.

By 2008, at twenty-three, he was the youngest self-made billionaire alive.

He bought Instagram, then WhatsApp, then renamed the empire Meta.

Today nearly three and a half billion people open his apps daily. The lonely coder built the largest conversation in history.

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