Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook with Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, Andrew McCollum, and Chris Hughes.

These Harvard University students launched the site, originally called "TheFacebook.com," on February 4, 2004, initially for Harvard students to connect and share profiles. Zuckerberg led the primary development after creating an earlier site, Facemash, and the group expanded it to other universities shortly after.

Key Founders

• Mark Zuckerberg : Primary creator, coder, and current CEO of Meta Platforms (Facebook's parent company).

• Eduardo Saverin : Provided initial funding and business support.

• Dustin Moskovitz : Handled coding; later co-founded Asana.

• Andrew McCollum : Contributed to early development.

• Chris Hughes : Focused on user experience; later worked on political campaigns.