Zuckerberg: Harvard art history final grades hit record highs with crowdsourced tool
Mark Zuckerberg · Meta's Mark Zuckerberg: Imperfect is perfect · May 19, 2023 · at 5:32
Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg describes building a crowdsourced art history study tool in two days while coding the initial version of Facebook at Harvard.
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“And the professor ended up telling me after that, that the grades on the final were higher than they'd ever been before, and I ended up passing that class.”
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