Randi Zuckerberg

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Randi Jayne Zuckerberg (born February 28, 1982 ) is an American entrepreneur. From 2005 to 2011 she worked for Facebook , most recently as Head of Marketing (“Director of Marketing”). She currently heads the Zuckerberg Media company, which she founded.

Life

Randi Zuckerberg was born in 1982 and grew up in Dobbs Ferry , New York. Her parents are Karen, a psychiatrist, and Edward Zuckerberg, a dentist. Randi Zuckerberg has three siblings: her younger brother Mark (* 1984) is the founder of Facebook and her two sisters are Donna and Arielle. Zuckerberg has been married to Brent Tworetzky since 2008. In 2011 she gave birth to her first child.

Career

Zuckerberg studied psychology at Harvard until 2003.

Before joining Facebook, she was a member of the expert team at Forbes on Fox . She took on a large part of the public appearances at conferences, such as Digital Life Design in Munich, and media events for her brother, who was more public shy and liked to stay in the background .

Zuckerberg organized the 2008 Democratic and Republican pre-election debates on ABC News  / Facebook and was also a correspondent for it. She was also the CNN / Facebook Inauguration Day Partnership that in 2009 and Facebook Diaries of Comcast responsible. Zuckerberg was also a correspondent for Facebook in 2008, covering both the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Convention . She remained politically neutral, telling the Wall Street Journal that her Facebook journalist team was treated "like rock stars" at the Democratic National Convention .

Zuckerberg was named to the list of 50 Digital Power Players by Hollywood Reporter magazine in 2010 . On the evening of November 2, 2010, she was working on a campaign show hosted by ABC News as part of television coverage of the 2010 election in the United States . Seven hours of this event were webcast in full on both ABC and Facebook. Zuckerberg wrote the guidebook Spark Your Career in Advertising.

In 2011, in an interview, she advocated removing anonymity on the Internet in order to be able to effectively protect children and young people in particular from cyber-bullying on the Internet . In the interview she indicated that anonymity lowers the inhibition threshold of the users and its abolition promotes their good behavior: “Then people simply behave better. If they remain anonymous, they think they can say anything they want. ”(“ People behave a lot better when they have their real names down. […] I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors. ")

In August 2011, Zuckerberg withdrew from Facebook and announced that he would start a new social media company called RtoZ Media . With her start-up, she wants to help companies use social media more.

In 2011 she was nominated for an Emmy in the category "Live Coverage" for her work on the news program "Facebook Live".

In 2013, Zuckerberg wrote the children's book Dot. , with which she wants to teach young girls in particular how to use new technologies, mathematics and natural sciences. The book was made into an animated series in 2016 with the support of Zuckerberg.

In 2016 she founded the company Zuckerberg Media . She is still in charge today.

Web links

Commons : Randi Zuckerberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://www.internetworld.de/Nachrichten/Medien/Personalien/Randi-Zuckerberg-verlaesst-Facebook-Schluss-mit-dem-Netzwerk
  2. ↑ a b Dana Schuster, Randi Zuckerberg wants to turn your entrepreneurial dreams into reality, New York Times, March 28, 2016 , accessed July 5, 2016
  3. ↑ Malone, Jasmine. "Mark Zuckerberg wins Time person of the year: profile" , The Daily Telegraph , December 15, 2010
  4. ↑ Vargas, Jose Antonio: The Face of Facebook . In: The New Yorker . September 20, 2010. Retrieved September 22, 2010.
  5. ↑ a b http://www.focus.de/finanzen/news/unternehmen/marketing-chefin-zuckerbergs-schwester-twittert-sehen-von-facebook_aid_652460.html
  6. ↑ Life on Mars: Randi Zuckerberg shares the 9 best new-mom tips she got online ( Memento from July 23, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  7. ↑ a b http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/02/mark-zuckerberg-uncle-randi-zuckerberg-asher_n_856376.html
  8. ↑ a b c http://www.ftd.de/unternehmen/handel-dienstleister/:kopf-des-tages-randi-zuckerberg-endung-vom-kleinen-bruder/60087690.html?page=2 ( Memento from 2 April 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ http://www.wz-newsline.de/home/wirtschaft/randi-zuckerberg-das-gesicht-von-facebook- geht- 1.730519
  10. ↑ Randi Zuckerberg . In: CrunchBase.com . Retrieved November 6, 2010.
  11. ↑ a b Caroline May: Randi Zuckerberg talks Facebook and the elections ahead of ABC town hall , Daily Caller . November 2, 2010. 
  12. ↑ Facebook manager Randi Zuckerberg: "We have increased the voter turnout" on Stern.de on January 30, 2009
  13. ↑ Tomio Geron: With 'Geek' In The White House, Will Pols Get Social Media Message? , Wall Street Journal . May 29, 2009. 
  14. ↑ Randi Zuckerberg of Facebook to Keynote CHA 2011 Winter Show . October 29, 2010. 
  15. ↑ https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Zuckerberg-Schwester-verlaesst-Facebook-1318088.html
  16. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/randi-zuckerberg- geht/ 4466578.html
  17. ↑ Norbert Kuls: Facebook loses Zuckerberg sister. In: FAZ.net . August 4, 2011, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Kimberly Nordyke: Randi Zuckerberg Turning Girl-Power Children's Book Into Animated TV Series (Exclusive). The Hollywood Reporter, February 3, 2016, accessed November 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Zuckerberg, Randi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zuckerberg, Randi Jayne (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and entrepreneur, former head of marketing at Facebook
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1982