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  1. Apr 5, 2022 · Did Mark Zuckerberg Steal Facebook? Mark Zuckerberg was accused of stealing the idea for Facebook from ConnectU.com , which involved three classmates and clients who wanted a social website for Harvard students.

  2. Feb 28, 2016 · He did build the Facematch tool, as seen in "The Social Network," but that was just a prank, he says. Instead, the roots of Facebook go back to a college kid spending too much time programming and ...

  3. But he was famously just a college student at Harvard when he launched “ theFacebook ” in 2004. At the time, Zuckerberg says he was simply solving a problem he saw around him. “Yeah, well, I ...

  4. Apr 12, 2011 · The three allege that Zuckerberg stole their idea and delayed their project in order to launch Facebook first. Over the last few months, Narendra and the Winklevosses have sought to reopen...

  5. Mar 6, 2019 · Long before Facebook was worth nearly $500 billion, a teenage Mark Zuckerberg explained to CNBC how the site was meant to connect people and help users "find some interesting information" in...

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  6. Feb 6, 2020 · Mark Zuckerberg was a Harvard computer science student when he, along with classmates Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes invented Facebook. Amazingly, the idea for the website, now the world's most popular social networking page, was inspired by a botched effort to get internet users to rate one another's photos.

  7. Feb 10, 2009 · The lawsuit, originally filed in 2004, claims that Zuckerberg stole the idea, the source code and the business plan for Facebook in 2003 while working as a programmer for three former Harvard students, who were developing their own social networking site, now called ConnectU.com.