How does a nineteen-year-old in a Harvard dorm room end up running one of the most influential companies on earth? Tech Billionaires: Mark Zuckerberg, a short British documentary from 2021 directed by Roxane Schlumberger, retraces the road from a student side project to a global social network.
What is Tech Billionaires: Mark Zuckerberg about?
The starting point is small: a college student, a cramped dorm room and an idea for connecting people online. From there the documentary follows Facebook's expansion over more than a decade, from a campus experiment to a service used across the planet, and watches its founder become the youngest billionaire in the world by the age of twenty-three. Along the way the film sets Facebook beside the other giants of the American technology industry and considers how a single platform came to shape the way billions of people talk, share and argue with one another. Its subject is less the code than the consequences: the community-building Zuckerberg has long described as his mission, the scale of the empire that grew out of it, and the questions that scale raises.
About the cast
Mark Zuckerberg appears throughout, largely through archival material and public appearances, and Lee Jagow is the other credited participant. Roxane Schlumberger directs. As with most documentaries of this format, there is no cast in the dramatic sense; the film is built from footage, narration and commentary rather than performances.
Context & significance
Part of the Tech Billionaires strand, which profiles the founders behind the largest technology fortunes, this instalment runs about forty-four minutes and is classified as biography and documentary. Its brevity makes it closer to a broadcast profile than a feature-length investigation: a compact retelling of the Facebook origin story for viewers who know the name but not the sequence of events. The film was produced in the United Kingdom and released in 2021, a moment when Facebook's reach and its founder's public role were both at the centre of a wider conversation about technology and society, which gives the retrospective a certain topical charge without the film needing to editorialise.
Watching Tech Billionaires: Mark Zuckerberg on Ktime
Tech Billionaires: Mark Zuckerberg streams on K-Time with a Persian dub, so the narration and commentary can be heard in Farsi. This page is free to read; to play the documentary, log in with a K-Time account. K-Time serves Persian-speaking viewers abroad through a fully Farsi interface.