{"id":13043,"date":"2023-11-10T07:35:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T06:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceoinfluencers.com\/?p=13043"},"modified":"2023-11-10T07:35:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T06:35:13","slug":"did-mark-zuckerberg-lose-his-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ceoinfluencers.com\/did-mark-zuckerberg-lose-his-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Mark Zuckerberg Lose His Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Mark Zuckerberg was twenty-three years old he created a giant that many of us wouldn’t be able to live without today – Facebook. But within twelve years, in a trial that sued him for intellectual property theft and intentional interference in business relations, the court decided Zuckerberg had lost the case.<\/p>\n

The plaintiff in this case was ConnectU, a social network that founded in Harvard in 2003, the same year Facebook was created. ConnectU alleged that Zuckerberg had stolen the source code of their service and used it to create Facebook, accusing him of intellectual property theft and intentional interference in business relations. <\/p>\n

The first court trial came down to an issue of whether or not an agreement existed between ConnectU and Zuckerberg. According to the court’s opinion, Facebook was created as a result of the agreement promised between ConnectU and Zuckerberg, making it clear that Zuckerberg lost the case. <\/p>\n

Alongside this, ConnectU commissioned an appraiser to make an independent opinion about the true value of Facebook, including an analysis of the company’s facts, figures and financials. According to the appraiser, Facebook was worth $220 million by the time of the case, which was much more than the $60 million initially offered by Facebook. <\/p>\n