“If it’s free, you’re the product.” You’ve probably heard that phrase before—maybe at the office, over coffee, or while scrolling through social media. It never actually escaped the lips of a tech CEO in a villain’s cape, but if you want a nutshell version of Silicon Valley’s business model in the mid-2000s, well, there you have it.
Among the early pioneers who really saw the jackpot in personal data, there was a young student with a knack for coding and a vision for connecting people. His name? Mark Zuckerberg. In 2004, he was not yet twenty, but already poised to change how we share (and monetize) our lives online.
From dorm room challenges to social networks
Mark Zuckerberg was the real deal when it came to programming: always on the hunt for new challenges and ideas to bring Harvard students closer together. Exhibit A was the (now infamous) FaceMash,
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