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  2. 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. After a lengthy legal battle that lasted years, Facebook ended up paying Zuckerberg’s ex-classmates $65 million between the three ...

  3. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO and founder of Facebook, did not set out to build a business. Today the social media platform has a market capitalization of more than $500 billion and more than 2...

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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  6. Feb 28, 2016 · Zuckerberg: Yes. That was only the beginning of Facebook. Now the 12-year-old social network has grown into a company investing in the future, from artificial intelligence to virtual reality.

  7. 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...

  8. Feb 1, 2019 · The twins had accused Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their idea and turning it into Facebook. The settlement doesn’t end the battle. The Winklevoss twins continue to pursue legal action into...