15 ‘Unshared’ Secrets About The Man Behind Facebook

5. Sued for Stealing

Apparently, the original idea for Facebook wasn’t Zuckerberg’s as it seems. Harvard students Divya Narendra, Cameron Winklevoss and his brother Tyler Winklevoss sued Zuckerberg for stealing their idea of a social network to be able to connect all Harvard students. In 2002, Divya innovated the idea of a social network that could connect his fellow students; he conferred about the idea with his friends Cameron and Tyler who were immediately interested. Divya then seeked help from one of his senior friends named Sanjay who wrote the first program for the project. But soon, Sanjay graduated and unfortunately wasn’t able to work on the project any longer. The three then approached another friend Victor who suggested seeking help from the young Zuckerberg. The young man was immediately on board and secret data and coding were shared between them. But Zuckerberg soon started avoiding the three and later they found out about Facebook. He was sued by them and had to compensate $65 million to the three and part of the Facebook shares to Divya.