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Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg Will Be Getting His Degree After 12 Years by Shadbay(m): 3:12am On May 19, 2017
Mark Zuckerberg, Harvard dropout and CEO of a company worth nearly $400 billion, will be getting a college degree more than a decade after leaving his classes behind. The Facebook co-founder and chief executive left Harvard’s undergraduate computer science program in the fall of 2005 to devote himself full-time to building the young social network, which even then was seeing meteoric growth. Now, 12 years later, Zuckerberg will be giving the commencement address to Harvard’s class of 2017 and nabbing an honorary degree in the process.

ZUCKERBERG DROPPED OUT OF HARVARD BACK IN 2005

The news was announced today in a post on Harvard’s website. “Mark Zuckerberg’s leadership has profoundly altered the nature of social engagement worldwide. Few inventions in modern times can rival Facebook in its far-reaching impact on how people around the globe interact with one another,” Harvard President Drew Faust said in a statement. “And few individuals can rival Mark Zuckerberg in his drive to change our world through the innovative use of technology, as well as his commitment to advance science, enhance education, and expand opportunity through the pursuit of philanthropy.”

Zuckerberg is of course not the first big name in Silicon Valley to have dropped out and gone on to find success. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs dropped out of Reed College in Oregon before starting his company with Steve Wozniak in 1976. Bill Gates, a fellow Harvard dropout, also left school after just two years to co-found Microsoft with Paul Allen. Because of their shared history, Zuckerberg even made a slightly cringe-worthy video with Gates in which the younger entrepreneur asks the older, wiser Microsoft alum for tips on writing his commencement speech. (Gates gave one to Harvard 10 years ago, which Zuckerberg watched from the crowd incidentally because his future wife, Priscilla Chan, was graduating that year.)

www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2017/3/7/14847968/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-harvard-commencement-honorary-degree?espv=1

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Re: Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg Will Be Getting His Degree After 12 Years by locosis007(m): 4:06am On May 19, 2017
honorary degree.

nice move tho
Re: Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg Will Be Getting His Degree After 12 Years by YungJo207(m): 4:08am On May 19, 2017
Ciroma classmate wan get WASC result too, Thank God oo grin
Re: Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg Will Be Getting His Degree After 12 Years by Nobody: 5:27am On May 19, 2017
Before the degree and grade bashing start please note that he's getting a Honourary Degree.
Re: Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg Will Be Getting His Degree After 12 Years by opeyemiieblog(m): 6:07am On May 19, 2017
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Re: Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg Will Be Getting His Degree After 12 Years by crazyABO(m): 6:25am On May 19, 2017
Even those that has d main degree doesn't hv half of wah he own sad irony of life
Re: Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg Will Be Getting His Degree After 12 Years by Sugarcious(m): 6:26am On May 19, 2017
It don't have any use anymore. He was PHD graduates under him.
Re: Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg Will Be Getting His Degree After 12 Years by Astrogeotech: 7:02am On May 19, 2017
Ok
Re: Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg Will Be Getting His Degree After 12 Years by Victornezzar: 7:10am On May 19, 2017
YungJo207:
Ciroma classmate wan get WASC result too, Thank God oo grin
Ciroma has graduated....he's now battling jamb like our fellow brother ipobexposed
Re: Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg Will Be Getting His Degree After 12 Years by Nobody: 2:03pm On May 19, 2017
Victornezzar:

Ciroma has graduated....he's now battling jamb like our fellow brother ipobexposed

be warned

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