the face of facebook.

So have you heard of facebook.com? It is apparently the new myspace, or friendster, but it's not. It's something else altogether.

Well this is the kid behind facebook. And I say kid because he is only 22. Mark Zuckerberg. A Harvard drop out and CEO of facebook.com and apparent smarty pants (and I'm not talking about wit).

He walks or rides a bike to his office in Palo Alto and his two (almost three) building office holds over 200 employees that love their job, which includes three catered meals a day, and laundry/dry cleaning services too. Not to mention competitive salaries and benefit packages that are worth, I'm sure, the often long days at the office.

So here is the kicker. Zuckerberg, still sleeps on a matress that is on the floor in a barely furnished rented apartment. He still lives like a 22 year old college student but he is changing the world of website "connecting" that is nothing close to being parallel to anything that wants to be up against him. The internet and business world are buzzing because along with his partners (also 20-somethings that are friends from Harvard) just turned down an alleged $1 billion dollar deal to have his website bought by Yahoo. Not to mention the other not as big deals that have been thrown on the table. People are starting to wonder if Zuckerberg is just being greeding and holding out for more money. "I'm here to build something for the long term," he says. "Anything else is a distraction."

I don't know why I was so impressed with this kid and his story, but I found it so interesting. He just wanted Harvard to come out with a "face book" so students could put a face to a name to their information, ie. phone, email etc. But Harvard said "nope. sorry." So Zuckerberg took matters into his own hands, hacked into the student's records and made one up himself.

Here is the article and more of the story if you want to read more.