For the to start with time due to the fact its construction, the Silicon Valley home exactly where the social media platform, Fb (now identified as Meta), was made, has strike the market for $5.3 million, The Post can report.

The unassuming blue house with a painted yellow door was very first built back again in 1998.

Made up of six bedrooms and 4½ loos, the Los Altos residence experienced only ever been up for rent since 2004.

And its first tenants?

Then 19-12 months-olds Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz, together with 24-year-aged Sean Parker, who cofounded what is now a multi-billion-dollar worldwide organization.

Judy Fusco was looking to rent her freshly refurbished dwelling that August when Zuckerberg and Moskovitz, now 37, and Parker, now 42, stopped by to seem at the residence.

“Mark stood outside the house and never went into the household, though Sean and Dustin ran up the entrance stairs to see the property,” Fusco recalled to The Article in an job interview. “Mark stood there and asked if they could lease the location, without having even wanting inside.”

“I examine the verify and requested him what he did, and he told me about a corporation named Fb, and how he planned to join the globe,” Fusco mentioned, adding that Zuckerberg was sporting black jersey shorts, sandals and his trademark hoodie at the time. “I claimed, ‘I never treatment if you are likely to link the globe, if this examine does not pass, you are not shifting in.’ ”

The now-embattled tech prodigy wrote her a test on the location. 

A to start with-time landlord herself, she didn’t think substantially about the reason for Zuckerberg’s urgency. But what she did not know was that the inspired teenagers were being compelled to move out of their prior Palo Alto pad following an incident involving a zip line tied around a chimney, foremost down to the pool — the scene immortalized in the film “The Social Network.”

Requesting to start with month’s rent and a deposit totaling $10,000, two weeks afterwards, on Sept. 14, 2004, they moved in, together with some unexpected guests.

“There had been only six bedrooms, and the sunroom by itself had about 10 interns remaining there huddled up in bunk beds,” Fusco stated. “The residence just exploded with engineers and Facebook personnel,” not compared with the “hacker house” highlighted in HBO’s “Silicon Valley.”

Functions of the property, which Zuckerberg referred to as “Casa de Fb,” include things like a residing room with bay home windows and a balcony, an enjoyment area with a lot of natural light-weight, the listing notes. The kitchen comes with stainless-steel appliances, a heart island and a breakfast nook.

“This slice of Silicon Valley history sits at the stop of a quiet cul-de-sac with a personalised soundwall in the expansive yard and gazebo great for BBQs and get-togethers,” the listing states.

“This household is best for multigenerational residing with two owners’ suites, and bedrooms on a variety of degrees,” the listing indicates.

Crystal Souza and Hannah Isaka of Dwell Engage in Actual Estate maintain the listing.

“After scheduling a listing presentation with Judy, I was pleased to have the possibility to demonstrate this potent, thriving lady the small business I am constructing with Stay Perform Authentic Estate,” Souza told The Post.

“When she instructed me she would like to transfer forward with the listing, I was honored and eager to get started and choose on the obstacle of finding the fantastic potential buyers for this unique residence.”

The founding staff members would lease the home for a yr, in advance of they desired a considerably bigger place to hold the rising enterprise. Parker would be the 1st to transfer out of the home — in January— after building an allergy from the jasmine flower that would bloom at night time.

Before renting the property — which took three a long time to complete — Fusco recalled inviting a monk more than to bless the house. The monk had predicted that an individual “who was heading to be really wealthy and renowned will come stay in this article.

“Sean [Parker] would come to me frequently, asking me to devote, telling me I would be a billionaire a single working day if I did,” Fusco admitted. “They proposed giving me inventory rather of the rent — a greenback a stock. I stated no. And wanting back again, I usually consider about the monk that experienced come to my household. I experienced no plan that would be the Facebook brand name. I experienced a daughter to place by faculty, I was fearful to choose the hazard at the time. But Sean was correct.”

“I guess I just wasn’t meant to be a billionaire,” Fusco said. “That was not my destiny.”

Now, Facebook is believed to be really worth $570 billion.