Mark Zuckerberg
Born: 1984
Founder: Facebook
For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social
relations among them, for creating a new system of exchanging
information and for changing how we live our lives, Mark Elliot
Zuckerberg is TIME's 2010 Person of the Year.
On the afternoon of Nov. 16, 2010, Mark Zuckerberg was leading a meeting
in the Aquarium, one of Facebook's conference rooms, so named because
it's in the middle of a huge work space and has glass walls on three
sides so everybody can see in. Conference rooms are a big deal at
Facebook because they're the only places anybody has any privacy at all,
even the bare minimum of privacy the Aquarium gets you. Otherwise the
space is open plan: no cubicles, no offices, no walls, just a rolling
tundra of office furniture. Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's COO, who used to
be Lawrence Summers' chief of staff at the Treasury Department, doesn't
have an office. Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO and co-founder and presiding
visionary, doesn't have an office.
