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Best is yet to come, says Facebook’s Zuckerberg

Thursday, 6 February 2014


SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 5 (AFP): The decade-long adventure since the founding of Facebook has been an "amazing journey," but the best is still to come, Mark Zuckerberg said.
The founder and chief executive of the world's biggest social network celebrated Tuesday's milestone in a post on his own Facebook profile.
Facebook's shares also joined the party, rising 2.07 per cent to an all-time closing high of $62.75, giving a company founded by college buddies a market value of more than $150 billion.
"Today is Facebook's 10th anniversary... and I'm so grateful to be a part of it," Zuckerberg wrote.
The 29-year-old executive said Facebook succeeded because "we just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.
"That's why I'm even more excited about the next 10 years than the last," he added.
He said the first decade was "about bootstrapping this network. Now we have the resources to help people across the world solve even bigger and more important problems."
Zuckerberg said he is often asked if he knew Facebook would become what it is today and he responds, "No way."
"I remember getting pizza with my friends one night in college shortly after opening Facebook. I told them I was excited to help connect our school community, but one day someone needed to connect the whole world."
"When I reflect on the last 10 years, one question I ask myself is: why were we the ones to build this? We were just students. We had way fewer resources than big companies.