He was on his cell, pacing back and forth in the backyard as he explained his parents’ reaction to his startups: “The thing I made before Facebook almost got me kicked out school,” he said, referencing an early MP3 player he’d created in high school. “When I started making Facebook they were like, ‘don’t make another site, you’ll get kicked out of school.’” Then, of course, all of his classmates — as well as the student bodies of all the schools in the Ivy League — joined, and he spent the remainder of his college money on servers.
Siya ay sa kanyang cell, pacing pabalik-balik sa likod-bahay tulad ng ipinaliwanag niya reaksyon ng kanyang mga magulang sa kanyang mga startup: “”Ang mga bagay na aking ginawa bago Facebook halos got ako kicked out ng paaralan,”” sinabi niya, na tumutukoy sa isang maagang MP3 player Gusto niya nilikha sa high school. “”Kapag ako nagsimula ang paggawa ng Facebook sila ay tulad ng, ‘huwag kayong gumawa ng isa pang site, makakakuha ka ng kicked sa labas ng paaralan.'”” Pagkatapos, siyempre, ang lahat ng kanyang mga kamag-aral – pati na rin ang mag-aaral katawan ng lahat ng mga paaralan sa ang Ivy League – sumali, at siya na ginugol ang natitirang bahagi ng kanyang kolehiyo ng pera sa mga server.