Businesses That Started In A Garage

14. Zuckerberg Invented Facebook In His Dorm Room, Then Moved To A Garage

Mark Zuckerberg was a Harvard college student who invented the biggest social media platform in the world, Facebook…and he started it from his dorm room.

In the beginning, the tech genius teamed up with his roommates to develop and expand the increasingly popular social media website.

By the Summer of 2004, Zuckerberg had moved to a small house in Palo Alto (where many other tech startups go to ‘incubate’) before signing a $500,000 investment deal with a Venture Capital firm.

By starting at such a young age, Zuckerberg had to learn about business as he went along, as there was no time to reflect, given the rapid growth of the company.

He has since tried to maintain the ‘startup’ atmosphere that served them so well while operating out of a garage in Palo Alto as he advises his employees to “Move Fast and Break Things” to progress.