15 ‘Unshared’ Secrets About The Man Behind Facebook

2. Microsoft Worker

Before Zuckerberg became his own boss at Facebook, he was offered very alluring positions by the tech giant Microsoft. In his senior year, Mark co created an MP3 player along with Adam D’Angelo, who later created Quora. The app was called Synapse Media Player. You could say that it was the Spotify or Pandora of the early days. Microsoft had its eyes on the app and its brilliant creator but Mark and Adam acquired a patent for the app instead and went on to join Harvard.