'I still don't know if we have something': A relaxed but uncertain beer-drinking Mark Zuckerberg talks about Facebook's future in 2005



As he sits relaxing in shorts and t-shirt on a velour couch with a beer in a red plastic cup, it is hard to believe that in five short years, he would be worth billions of dollars and Time magazine's Person of the Year.

In 2005, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was celebrating the site's three millionth user with a typical college 'frat' party at the Facebook offices in Palo Alto, complete with beer keg.

The Facebook co-founder does a keg stand with help from his co-workers, who prop him up on the keg, legs in the air, so he can drink directly from the tap - typical college boy behaviour.

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Early days: A relaxed and uncertain Mark Zuckerberg talks about the future of Facebook saying he is unsure whether to expand it outside of colleges

Frat party: Pulp Fiction and Scarface posters adorn the wall of the Palo Alto offices while his colleagues party in the next room

But little did these college boys know that Facebook, at the time 15-months old and reaching more than 800 schools, would become the world's largest social networking site, as well as the subject of many law suits.

A relaxed Zuckerberg sits on the couch talking to the interviewer about the future of the company.

The 40-minute interview with the billionaire has never been aired in full.

Filmed by Ray Hafner and Derek Franzese for their documentary about the millennial generation, Now Entering, which was released in 2008, a five-minute excerpt was released on YouTube.

The portrait that emerges from the video is of a young man still unclear about the possibilities that lie ahead for the explosively-growing company.

Or perhaps he is fully aware how big it is going to get and is playing coy.



He dismisses the suggestion that his business could be poised to become a global phenomenon, though that is precisely what is about to happen.

In the interview, Zuckerberg says of Facebook: 'I still don't know if we have something.



Wild antics:An associate of the Facebook cofounder is turned upside down to drink beer form the keg at a party to celebrate its three millionth user

Tour: He shows the interviewers around the Palo Alto offices, which at that time only has 20 employees

'Whether we have something that will last for a really long time or is just a cool toy for people to play with now, we'll see. I think it's actually useful and not necessarily just a fad.'

An uncertain Zuckerberg then discusses why he doesn't want his Facebook of 2005 - exclusively for college students - to turn into a huge, far-reaching global phenomenon like it is today he said: 'There doesn't necessarily have to be more. You know?



'I mean, like, a lot of people are focused on taking over the world, or doing, like, the biggest thing — getting the most users. And, I mean, I think, like, part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.



'There is a level of service that we could provide when we were just at Harvard that we can't provide for all of the colleges, and there's a level of service we can provide when we're a college network that we wouldn't be able to provide if we went to other types of things.



'So I mean, like, I really just want see everyone focus on college and create a really cool college directory that is really relevant for students.'

Facebook now has more than 750 million members, offices in 15 countries and a valuation topping $50billion.

So what changed?

According to the Huffington Post, a few months after the interview the company exploded - it was earning $1million each month, could boast 230 million page views per day and was visited daily by 70 per cent of its users.



High-level executives from News Corp., Microsoft, Yahoo and Viacom began to court Zuckerberg. He turned down a $1billion offer from Yahoo a year later.





