Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is
Mark Zuckerberg- founder and developer of the popular Facebook network, the youngest billionaire in history. In 2010, he was recognized as Person of the Year by American Time magazine. As the publication explains, the 26-year-old billionaire was elected person of the year for “uniting more than half a billion people and drawing a map of social relations between them, creating new system exchange of information, and changed our lives"
In 2010, the number of Facebook users exceeded 500 million people, and the figure of Zuckerberg was “mythologized” by Hollywood - in the fall of 2010, the film “The Social Network” was released on the screens about the history of the creation and development of Facebook.
« In a world where social structures are paramount, a virtual, public dossier is an information bomb. And in general, if a person has brains, he simply does not have the moral right to work not for himself, giving most of his time and the results of his achievements to his employer.» Mark Zuckerberg
Success story, Biography of Mark Zuckerberg
Childhood, youth and student years Mark Zuckerberg
Mark was born on May 14, 1984 in White Plains in southeastern New York. He was the second of four children and only son in an intelligent family of a dentist and a psychiatrist.
Mark learned that the world is divided into programmers and users when he was 10 years old and received his first PC (Quantex 486DX on Intel processor 486). Users are working on the computer. Programmers use computers to change the world. After the computer appeared, Mark felt terribly grown up and at first literally did not leave his new toy. After a couple of months, he got tired of simply changing the background color, and he began to read smart books, deciding to learn something more useful, namely programming.
Reading was good for me. Mark mastered the programming intricacies very well and, while still in high school, wrote several small programs, for example, a computer version of the popular board game Risk. But not all of his crafts were so harmless. In principle, Zuckerberg himself says that he would not like to immediately create something global, but would be happy to do a bunch of cool little things, and the Synapse program is one of those. He wrote it for himself. The program was a smart mp3 player, which, having carefully studied the owner’s preferences and found out what music, at what time of day and how often, he listened to, was able to generate playlists independently, “guessing” which tracks the owner would want to hear right now. Both Microsoft and AOL became interested in the unusual program, and both Microsoft and AOL became interested in Zuckerberg himself. However, the young talent rejected the giants' offers to purchase Synapse, and then politely rejected their invitations to cooperate. Just like that, Mark gave up several tens, and maybe hundreds of thousands of dollars, and a job in one of the top IT corporations in the world.
It’s surprising that with such passion, Zuckerberg found time for other activities: he excelled in mathematics and natural sciences. He devoted himself enthusiastically to such an extraordinary sport as fencing. I immersed myself in antiquity, studying ancient languages. Once I spent three months of school holidays at a summer school taking ancient Greek language courses. True, I changed my mind about enrolling in the corresponding department, but I retained the ability to read and write in both classical languages. And at the university I chose a rather unexpected, although understandable, discipline - psychology.
My university performance was so-so: my passion for programming took up too much of my time. Sometimes preparing for exams required extraordinary solutions, as, for example, in the episode with 500 paintings in an art history course. There were two days left before the exams, and it was impossible to read anything about each painting. Zuckerberg quickly created a website, on each page of which he placed a painting, and asked fellow students to comment on the works. “After two hours,” the innovator recalls, comparing himself to Tom Sawyer, painting a fence with the help of commercial savvy, “every picture was overgrown with comments, and I passed that exam with flying colors.”
Creation of Facebook
There was a section on the Harvard internal computer network where students posted their photographs and personal information. The photographs were so-so - the usual front and profile, tense expressions on their faces. And then it occurred to young Mark to have some fun: he made a program that selected two random faces and offered to compare who was sexier. There was no end to those wishing to conduct a comparative analysis. By the evening of the first day, four thousand people had viewed the site. When the number of visitors exceeded twenty thousand, the server crashed due to overload. Mark appeared before the computer hacking commission. Of course, they didn’t pat Zuckerberg on the head for this - he received a disciplinary sanction, but, apparently, even then he noticed that this kind of thing arouses intense interest among the people. Harvard, by the way, still refuses to comment on that incident.
However, the basis for the future communication masterpiece had already been created. On February 4, 2004, Mark launched a social network called “The Facebook”, which was intended as a communication site for Harvard students. “The Facebook” has become popular among students mainly because of the convenience of self-organization in groups, courses and parties that already exist offline in universities. By opening “The Facebook” you could find out where your acquaintances live this year, which girls are cute and which are not, who, in the end, is this year’s newcomer... all this is very reminiscent of what Facebook is today.
After the launch of the site, Zuckerberg told the press that Facebook was written in just a week, and this idea simply matured in his head and was quickly implemented, “on the spot.” Fortunately, fellow students also helped - together with Mark, Eduardo Severin, Dustin Moskowitz, Andrew McCollum and Christopher Hughes were involved in the launch of the project.
Very quickly, the social network created by Zuckerberg outgrew the boundaries of the campus (Let me remind you that at that time there were no “classmates” and “Twitters”; they were cloned later); already in the spring of 2004, it included all Ivy League colleges. Users were invited to post photographs and any information about themselves - from scientific and creative interests to gastronomic and love preferences. And also photographs, photographs, photographs...
Serious and promising projects at the stage of active development, as a rule, require substantial investments. But as life shows, these issues can be solved if there are determination.
Mark spent all the money his parents set aside to pay for his studies on the business, but naturally this was not enough for the megaproject. And so one summer Zuckerberg rushed to Silicon Valley, where interesting ideas, if you're lucky, they may get support. And again luck smiled on the assertive guy. Like the hero of the Finnish writer Martti Larni, who left home for matches and ended up in America, student Zuckerberg went on reconnaissance and got stuck in Palo Alto - the heart of Silicon Valley.
One evening on the street he accidentally met Sean Parker, cult figure Internet and one of the creators of the file sharing program Napster. It turned out that Parker was moving to Palo Alto, but did not yet have an apartment. " We(Mark and his friends) we just invited him to spend the night with us", says Mark. It was Parker who introduced Zuckerberg to Peter Thiel, co-founder payment system PayPal. An experienced businessman, after a fifteen-minute conversation, invested the red-haired youth for 500 thousand dollars. Zuckerberg wrote an application to the university for an indefinite period academic leave, as another famous Harvard “dropout” - Bill Gates - did at one time.
Half a million is just a lot of money at first glance. Mark and his team perfected their brainchild in rented premises in Palo Alto, some sitting on wobbly chairs, some right on the floor. There was no ventilation in the rooms where the servers were located. Under the Californian summer heat at 45 degrees the plastic racks melted at the edges.
In November 2004, the number of users exceeded one million. Another six months later, with the help of Peter Thiel, the company managed to receive serious funds - $12.7 million from Accel Partners. In the fall of 2005, there were already more than 5 million active clients.
Soon the portal announced free registration - for any user with a valid email address. The percentage of customers over 30 has grown significantly, and Facebook has established itself among the leaders of the Internet, consistently remaining the seventh most popular site in America.
In 2006, Zuckerberg began receiving the first purchase offers. At first the amounts were very cautious, but they began to increase quite quickly. They offered $750 million, but Mark refused and said that this was three times less than the amount about which serious discussions could be held. Later, at the already mentioned negotiations with Yahoo, there was talk of a billion, but Zuckerberg again said no. Rumors claim that there was also an offer from Google, and they gave more, but Facebook remained in the same hands, and the rumors remained rumors.
The site, meanwhile, grew not only with people, but also with new services, both successful and outright failures. It was clear to everyone in the company that they were sitting on a lot of money, but coming up with elegant ways to get it from users turned out to be not so an easy task. The site tested various methods of introducing contextual advertising that was as gentle as possible. In this regard, there were also scandals, in particular related to data privacy (which turned out to be a big question) and the inability to permanently delete your account. In general, everything is natural - the larger the community, the larger the unrest.
2007 was definitely a year of change for Facebook. To begin with, Microsoft acquired a 1.6% stake in the company for $240 million. It is easy to calculate that in Microsoft's understanding the full cost Facebook company equals 15 billion pieces of paper with portraits of dead presidents. Where are Yahoo and Google with their modest amounts?
In 2009, Facebook officially opened the platform codes to everyone, so everyone had the opportunity to create new applications for the site, be it toys, horoscopes, calendars, or something else entirely. By the way, now more than 140 new applications are added to the site every day.
Madness has gripped the world. Even the casual dating model has changed. The phrase “Can you give me your phone number?” was replaced by a request for a link to a Facebook profile. And this is really convenient: instead of taking a long time to check by trial and error whether a person is right for you or not, you can simply look at his personal page. The popularity of Facebook has ensured the convenience of self-organization by interest groups that already exist offline or newly created.
A vengeful thief or a victim of envious people?
The launch of the project was accompanied by a scandal. Six days after the site opened, senior students, brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra, accuse Zuckerberg of stealing their idea. They claim they hired Zuckerberg in 2003 to complete the creation social network HarvardConnection.com. According to them, Zuckerberg did not transfer the results of his work to them, but he used the work he received from them to create Facebook.
That same year, the Winklevosses and Narendra launched their network, renamed ConnectU. And they continue to attack Zuckerberg, complaining about him to the Harvard administration and the Harvard Crimson newspaper. At first, Zuckerberg convinces journalists not to publish the investigation: he shows what he allegedly did for HarvardConnection.com and explains that these developments have nothing to do with Facebook. But very inopportunely, another Harvard student, John Thomson, begins to say in personal conversations that Zuckerberg stole one of his ideas for Facebook. The newspaper decides to publish the article, which greatly offends Zuckerberg.
Zuckerberg takes revenge on the Harvard Crimson. According to the Silicon Alley Insider resource, in 2004 he hacked mailboxes two journalists of the publication, using just launched by Facebook. It finds all users who indicate their affiliation with the newspaper and looks at the logs (i.e. history) of the incorrect passwords they entered into Facebook. Zuckerberg's calculation was justified: two newspaper employees absent-mindedly tried to log into Facebook with the password for their email. Silicon Alley Insider claims that Zuckerberg was lucky: he read with interest comments in their correspondence about the editorial team’s communication with him and HarvardConnection.com.
The Winklevoss brothers and Narendra sue, but the court rejects their claim. They prove persistent and file another lawsuit. The second court conducts an examination of the source codes to understand whether they were actually stolen. But the truth is still not clear. The results of the examination were not made public: in 2009, Zuckerberg agreed to pay $45 million ($20 million in cash and the rest in Facebook shares) to ConnectU as part of a pre-trial settlement. After this, the case was closed. By that point, ConnectU had fewer than 100,000 users, while Facebook boasted 150 million.
But the Winklevoss brothers did not rest on this; they filed a petition with the US Federal Court of Appeal, but they were denied a review of the case. According to their lawyer, Jerome Faulk, the appeals court denied the brothers a review of the case, based only on a settlement agreement between the parties, which states that the parties to the trial, once signed, have no right to reopen the trial. According to the lawyer, decision illegal, since Mark Zuckerberg provided false information about the company's value during the proceedings in 2008.
On May 17, 2011, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss filed a lawsuit against the owner of the social network Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, in Supreme Court USA. This is the brothers' last attempt to reconsider the case.
Lifestyle of Mark Zuckerberg
Having received the status of a billionaire, Zuckerberg himself did not change his lifestyle. As usual as a student, he rents a house (apartment) with a minimum of amenities in Palo Alto, where there is not even a bed, and sleeps on a mattress on the floor. The way to work overcomes on foot or by bicycle. Favorite appearance- worn-out trousers, a T-shirt and sandals on bare feet. True, he admits that for trips to such “adult” events as the forum in Davos, he has a decent suit in stock. His girlfriend's name is Priscilla Chen and she is of Chinese descent. Our hero, still in his first year at Harvard, confessed in an online diary that he liked Asian girls.
The spirit of the young founding father is reflected at Facebook's headquarters. The three buildings look decent and modern, but have not lost the image of a student dormitory. Casually dressed employees, whose number has already exceeded 400 people, show up at work late after lunch, but also stay until the roosters. To ensure that everyday life does not interfere with creativity, meals, clothes washing and other services are provided right in the office, and free of charge.
It is impossible not to note Mark’s sensible view of his “empire”. He understands that technological breakthroughs are one thing, but business strategy is something else, and he is not as knowledgeable about these things. The news that Facebook has appointed veteran Google manager Sheryl Sandberg to run Facebook's day-to-day operations has been welcomed by the business community.
Aspirations of means mass media learning as much as possible about Mark Zuckerberg is rarely successful. This is because the author is so successful project– a person who is extremely secretive, inaccessible, and does not want to demonstrate himself. If there are very short interviews, then in them the young and talented figure is mostly lost, stammers, stammers, in general, feels very awkward in front of the camera (this was the case on the Oprah Winfrey show). However, most analysts are convinced that this state of affairs is a temporary phenomenon and very soon Mark will definitely eclipse even the most advanced speakers of our time.
Secrets of Mark Zuckerberg's success
Unlike other famous billionaires, Mark Zuckerberg is in no hurry to reveal his secrets, therefore, many experts are independently trying to analyze the personality of the Facebook founder in order to understand how a 26-year-old young man managed to do something that 99 percent of people today cannot do?
The first thing to note is that Mark has always understood the difference between technological breakthrough and creative strategy. And if he is not strong in the latter, then he is happy to entrust this area of work to a good manager. Although in the field of management Mark cannot be considered such a mediocrity, because in the most miraculous way the best of the best, specialists who have been hunted for years, end up on his team large companies. Many argue that Zuckerberg has a rare ability to negotiate correctly.
Mark Zuckerberg is extremely demanding. He loves to argue, rarely praises his employees and strives to do everything so that they work with their souls, completely devoting themselves to their work. However, there are simply no indifferent people in Mark’s team.
Many psychologists say that Mark’s modesty and unpretentiousness in terms of comfort contribute in every possible way to the fact that he can fully concentrate on his main mission - the development of the Facebook network. In general, the simplicity and even some carelessness in Mark’s business negotiations are legendary. So one day he refused a meeting with a Microsoft representative, which was scheduled for 8.00. " I'm still sleeping at this time", said Mark. When Zuckerberg was invited to discuss cooperation with Yahoo, he said that a girl was coming to see him that day. No talk about that we're talking about the billion dollar deal had no effect on Mark. There is no need to rush - Zuckerberg learned this principle back in his school years after the first offer from Microsoft. Today Mark is true to himself, and the money still flows into his hands. The youngest billionaire today has become the idol of millions of people who want to reach the same unprecedented heights. But only a few can do this...
What can we say today about Mark as a businessman and prominent IT figure? Perhaps nothing specific. Even experts disagree - some call Facebook the new Google, and Zuckerberg a replacement for Page and Sergey Brin, others speak out very cautiously, especially after trials and accusations of theft of ideas. It is still not entirely clear what in this whole story was a competent calculation, and what was luck and a wave caught by chance. The most common characteristic of Mark, heard from the mouths of most experts, critics and powerful of the world This boils down to one phrase: “He is still so young.” And it’s hard to disagree with this: Mark’s age really makes it difficult to consider who he is - a young genius or just a very lucky guy who is favored by circumstances.
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Updated: 01/10/2017
If you look at the top ten richest people in the world by... Forbes version for 2013, you will see that for the most part these are elderly, experienced people who are over 70 years old.
Zuckerberg took an unconventional approach - he created a website on which he displayed these 500 paintings and asked fellow students to describe them. After 2 hours, each picture was overgrown with comments from students, which helped our innovator get a pass.
For the creation of another site - Facemash - Mark was punished by the Harvard administration. All the student did was hack into the university’s computer network, and, taking photos from there, posted them in pairs on his website.
The site worked on the “hot or not” principle, i.e. “hot thing” or “not”, and invited everyone to comment on the attractiveness of the characters. The result of Facemash’s 2-hour work was 500 visitors, and soon the server crashed due to the number of thousands of users.
The site was closed, and Mark was accused of hacking and encroachment on privacy. The charges, however, were dropped, and Mark saw that the simple idea of comparing photos worked well. And I seriously thought about creating a social network.
Facebook celebrates its birthday on February 4, 2004. In addition to Zuckerberg, his fellow students, Eduardo Severin, Dustin Moskovitz, Andrew McCollum and Christopher Hughes, also worked on the creation of the site.
The opening of the project was accompanied by a scandal. A week after its launch, undergraduate students, the Winklevoss brothers and Divya Narendra, accuse Zuckerberg of stealing the idea.
In 2003, Mark was hired by them to complete the creation of the social network HarvardConnection.com. According to them, Zuckerberg did not give them the results of his work, but he used the results to open his website. Mark denies the accusations and says that he embodied an idea that was “flying in the air.”
He is convinced that a person “Whoever makes a comfortable chair should not pay everyone who makes the chairs.” However, in 2009, Zuckerberg had to pay his opponents $45 million to settle the case that went to trial.
Who knows how much truth there is in these accusations, but the proverb “winners are not judged” is still in use among the people. In response to all the speeches of spiteful critics, Zuckerberg replies: “You can’t make 500 million friends without making a single enemy.”
Facebook was originally developed for Harvard students to communicate. It was loved for the ease of finding information and the availability of photos, and soon the site united students from other universities. Since 2006, Facebook has been opened to all users over 13 years of age.
In your new project Mark invested all the money his parents raised for his studies, but the rapidly growing business required additional cash injections. Zuckerberg goes to Silicon Valley to find investors for Facebook. The energetic guy is lucky - on the street he accidentally meets Sean Parker, co-founder of the file-sharing network Napster.
He, in turn, introduces him to Peter Thiel, co-founder of online payments PayPal. Peter immediately saw gold mine and invested half a million dollars in Mark’s project. Zuckerberg is no longer returning to Harvard.
The Facebook team rents space in Palo Alto, one of the cities in Silicon Valley. Mark knew how to understand personnel: “We acquired talent, which, for me, is one of the best things that could be done.” Now, for example, the management of current operations is not managed by Mark himself, but by an experienced manager from Google. The company's staff is working hard to ensure that the site "does not allow you to move away from the monitor."
At the company, Mark maintains the image of an eccentric billionaire. Somewhere he really is like that, somewhere he plays along, because according to the reviews of his partners (by the way, most of them purchased the “ex” prefixes), he is not as simple as he seems.
These famous “pajama” negotiations, when Mark discusses serious topics in carelessly wrinkled clothes and flip-flops on his bare feet! And the answer to the Microsoft representative’s offer to meet at 8 am and discuss business cooperation was “I can’t come, I’m still sleeping at this time”! And Mark’s refusal to meet with Yahoo’s authorized representative because “a girl is coming to see me.” Somehow all this looks like a polite “fuck you”... Our bastard designs his business cards even cooler - the inscription on them reads “I’m the director here, bitch!”
Well, the rich have Generation Next"your quirks. Remember ours, who explains his quirks primarily by the desire to stand out from the crowd. Mark's are not so strange - the guy still loves to walk and ride a bike.
Mark celebrated his wedding with his beloved girlfriend Priscilla Chen not on an exotic island, like, and not in a luxurious mansion, entirely decorated with fresh flowers, like
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg. Born May 14, 1984 in White Plains (New York, USA). American programmer and entrepreneur in the field of Internet technologies, dollar billionaire, one of the developers and founders of the social network Facebook. Head of Facebook Inc.
Born on May 14, 1984 in White Plains, New York, a few kilometers north of New York City, into a Jewish family.
Father - dentist Edward Zuckerberg (as of 2012, continued to practice).
Mother is psychiatrist Karen Zuckerberg. He was the 2nd child and the only boy out of 4 children in the family. Sisters - Randy (eldest), Donna and Ariel.
During my school years I was involved in computer programming and developed an online version of the game “Risk”.
Higher education Mark Zuckerberg did not finish: in 2002 he entered Harvard University, where he studied psychology until 2004. In parallel, Mark attended IT courses and speaks the following programming languages: C, C++, Java, Visual Basic, VBscript, Javascript, PHP and ASP.
Together with Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskowitz, he began to create a social Facebook network. Financial assistance he was assisted by a student of Brazilian origin, Eduardo Saverin. Zuckerberg has repeatedly characterized himself as a hacker by vocation. His attempts to remove Saverin from managing the company in 2005 became the subject of legal proceedings.
In January 2009, in Palo Alto, I met Yuri Milner. On May 26, 2009, an agreement was signed under which DST bought a 1.96% stake in Facebook for $200 million.
In 2010, Time magazine named Zuckerberg Person of the Year.
On December 8, 2010, Mark Zuckerberg announced that he had joined the Giving Pledge, a philanthropic campaign by billionaires and .
On June 30, 2013, Mark Zuckerberg, along with other Facebook employees, took part in the gay pride parade that took place in San Francisco.
Fortune magazine named Mark Zuckerberg "Businessman of the Year - 2016."
In the summer of 2016, he met with the Pope.
Mark Zuckerberg's height: 171 centimeters.
Personal life of Mark Zuckerberg:
On May 19, 2012, Mark Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan. The couple celebrated Priscilla's receiving her doctorate in medicine, but when close friends and family showed up in the backyard of the couple's Palo Alto home, they were told they were attending a wedding. As the couple's representative said, the wedding was not timed to coincide with Facebook's IPO, but rather to coincide with the end of Priscilla's education.
In December 2015, whom her parents named Max.
Along with the birth of his daughter, it was announced that Mark Zuckerberg would give 99 percent of his fortune to charity.
Interesting facts about Mark Zuckerberg:
Being a deuteranope, Zuckerberg distinguishes between red and green much worse than blue, Facebook's main color.
In the second episode of the 22nd season of the animated series The Simpsons, Zuckerberg voiced himself.
In January 2011, an unknown hacker hacked Mark's Facebook page.
In the Facebook database, Zuckerberg is listed as the 4th registered user (the first three are test ones).
Mark Zuckerberg is a fan of the American band Green Day, as well as rapper Eminem.
According to men's magazine GQ, Mark is considered the most tastelessly dressed resident of Silicon Valley.
Back in college, Mark was noticed by Microsoft employees after he wrote the Synapse program, which allowed the computer to independently compose a sequence of musical hits for its owner.
The head of the company is the most popular among his employees according to the American recruiting site Glassdoor (2013), who received over 90% of employee votes in an anonymous survey.
Being dollar billionaire, Mark Zuckerberg is a rather modest person and drives a regular Volkswagen Golf GTI.
Mark Zuckerberg's official salary is only $1.
Mark Zuckerberg's net worth:
With a 24% stake in Facebook, Inc., Mark Zuckerberg became the youngest billionaire in history. In March 2010, Forbes magazine recognized him as one of the youngest billionaires on its list with a net worth of US$4 billion. In Forbes magazine's September 2010 list of the richest Americans, Zuckerberg was ranked 29th with a net worth of $7 billion.
On March 10, 2013, Mark Zuckerberg was included in the Top 10 youngest billionaires; according to Forbes, he ranks 2nd in the ranking, with a fortune of $13.3 billion.
On September 16, 2013, according to Forbes magazine, Mark Zuckerberg, with a personal fortune of $19 billion, was again in 20th place on the list, the same place he took in 2011, before Facebook’s IPO in May 2012.
In October 2014, Zuckerberg spent $100 million to purchase plots of land on the northern coast of the island of Kauai, according to Forbes magazine, where he plans to build a family estate with an area of 280 hectares.
In December 2014, Mark was ranked 14th in the Forbes Top 15 with a net worth of US$33.6 billion.
In January 2018 he is 5th with Forbes list and the youngest multi-billionaire with a net worth of $70 billion.
Zuckerberg's fortune decreased by $8.1 billion in two days - March 19 and 20, 2018 due to the scandal associated with the British analytical company Cambridge Analytica.
Mark Zuckerberg - American programmer Jewish origin, entrepreneur in the field of Internet technologies, dollar billionaire, one of the developers and founders of the social network Facebook.
Zuckerberg's biography is of great interest to many people, because he is so early age became one of richest people peace. Every year he donates large amounts for charity.
Zuckerberg's diploma work was the Synapse program, which allowed the computer to independently determine the order of musical compositions. Later, Microsoft would buy it from Mark for $2 million.
In 2002, Zuckerberg joined the faculty of Harvard University. In parallel with this, the student attended IT courses. In the future, he will say more than once that hacking was his main credo in life.
After 2 years, he wrote the CourseMatch program, which allowed students to communicate with each other.
After this, Mark developed the “Facemash” project, thanks to which users could rate each other’s photos. An interesting fact is that to create the project, he had to hack the educational institution’s database.
For this, Zuckerberg was almost expelled from the university, as users began to complain that their photos were being used without permission.
As a result, Facemash was closed, but this did not stop the talented programmer. Having corrected his previous mistakes, he immediately creates a new project.
Initially, Mark Zuckerberg and his classmates created the social network Facebook so that Harvard students could actively communicate with each other.
Soon many other universities joined this network. On Facebook, people could view photos of friends, find out useful information about a person, and also find interest groups.
However, this required considerable funds. As a result, Mark took an example from, namely, he dropped out of Harvard and invested all the money he had set aside for his studies in his project.
In 2004, Zuckerberg’s biography took place important events: He moved to Palo Alto and registered Facebook in his name. Later, he began collaborating with wealthy investors, whose money made his project even more famous.
A year later, Zuckerberg bought the domain “Facebook.com”, paying $200 thousand for it. By that time, the Facebook audience numbered about 5 million users.
The young programmer began to receive many offers to purchase a social network. However, he did not even think about selling his developing project, which in 2007 was valued at $15 billion.
A year later, Mark Zuckerberg opened his headquarters in the capital of Ireland. In 2015, his social network became the 2nd most visited site in the world.
Mark Zuckerberg with his parents Interestingly, the official wage Zuckerberg is only $1. I once worked at Apple for the same pay.
Thanks to his project, Mark Zuckerberg became the youngest dollar billionaire in history. This, in fact, is its uniqueness.
Personal life
In 2012, at the age of 28, Zuckerberg married Priscilla Chan, whom he met in his youth. In this marriage they had 2 daughters: Maxima (2015) and August (2017).
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Interestingly, before the birth of the child, the Zuckerberg family lived in rented houses. However, when Mark found out about his wife’s pregnancy, he built a luxurious mansion in an elite area of Silicon Valley.
Mark Zuckerberg today
In 2017, Zuckerberg was awarded an honorary Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Harvard. That same year, the number of Facebook users reached 2 billion.
Despite his worldwide popularity and colossal wealth, Mark behaves quite simply and never flaunts his multibillion-dollar fortune.
Mark Zuckerberg with his wife and child The American magazine GQ named Mark one of the most tastelessly dressed residents of Silicon Valley, but this in no way worries the billionaire.
It is also interesting that despite his enormous fortune, he prefers to drive a simple Volkswagen Golf GEI.
Zuckerberg, like Bill Gates, often gives lectures where he talks about his successes and also discusses global problems peace.
An interesting fact is that Mark is colorblind, or rather deuteranope: he has difficulty distinguishing between green and red colors.
Zuckerberg's net worth
According to the authoritative publication Forbes, as of 2018, Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune is estimated at $75 billion. It is worth noting that he himself is not prone to hoarding. The billionaire is the creator of dozens of charitable foundations.
In 2012, Zuckerberg visited. He met with the Prime Minister and also took part in two programs on Channel One.
Mark Zuckerberg with Ivan Urgant In 2015, Zuckerberg made a sensational announcement saying that he was ready to donate 99% of Facebook shares to charity.
Today he continues to be one of the richest and popular people in the world. Mark often appears on various television programs as a guest.
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Mark Zuckerberg's children are two desired and long-awaited daughters, the youngest of whom is due to be born this year. According to the Facebook founder, they took a very long time to become parents - Mark Zuckerberg's wife was pregnant several times, and only two attempts were successful. During all this time, the relationship between Mark and Priscilla not only did not worsen, it became even stronger, and the joint struggle for happiness brought the spouses even closer together. Their eldest daughter Max was born in 2015, and this became the reason for one of the richest people on the planet, whose fortune is estimated at fifty-three billion dollars, to announce that during his life he and his wife would give 99 percent of Facebook shares to charity, which at that time were estimated at forty-five billion dollars. These funds should go to charitable foundation Zuckerberg's Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which helps schools for the poor and those with serious illnesses.
In the photo - Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan
After the birth of his first daughter Maxima, or Max, as her parents call her, Mark happily plunged into the atmosphere of fatherhood and did not hesitate to change his daughter’s diapers, happily talking about it on social networks. In addition, he constantly posted photos of his eldest daughter in different images, for example, in a Jedi cloak and holding a lightsaber. The whole event was the first word spoken by Zuckerberg’s daughter, and it was the word “dog,” because Max adores their Hungarian shepherd Bist.
Zuckerberg met his future wife while studying at Harvard University, when he was not yet the founder of the world famous Facebook network, but was a simple programmer. Priscilla was by his side all the way to success, and on May 19, 2012 they got married. They had their modest wedding at Zuckerberg's house in Palo Alto, and the hundreds of guests who came to the celebration at first didn't even know they were going to the wedding, but thought they were invited to celebrate Priscilla's graduation from the University of California.
Mark Zuckerberg's wife holds a doctorate in medicine, but now she devotes all her time not to her career, but to raising her daughter and preparing for a new birth. Since her first pregnancy was very difficult, Priscilla and her husband are doing everything to ensure that the second one proceeds without complications. Mark showed himself to be a very good husband, who did not give up and did not leave his Priscilla, who had big problems in order to become a mother, but he really needed an heir. This once again confirms that good husbands and they do not become fathers, but are born, because only a responsible and worthy person is able to sympathize and empathize, to be strong and at the same time gentle, surrounding the woman he loves with care and not abandoning her in difficult times.
In the photo - Mark with his daughter Max
Mark Zuckerberg is a versatile person whose main hobby is school years was programming, and after acquiring the first computer in his life, he began to independently create computer games and various entertaining applications. But his range of interests was not limited to this - he was passionate about fencing and studying ancient languages.
Zuckerberg entered the prestigious Harvard University in 2002, and two years later began dating a Chinese woman, Priscilla Chan. Mark fell in love with her for her simplicity and openness and found in her your soul mate. Future wife Mark Zuckerberg always believed in the success of his project to create a social network and supported him in all his endeavors.
They tried not to advertise their relationship, so when the rich young programmer admitted that his heart had not been free for a long time, it became a big discovery for many. What surprised everyone even more was that Mark Zuckerberg, who had great hopes for a luxurious future, chose not a stunning beauty, but a modestly and even, in the opinion of many, tastelessly dressed girl with an ordinary appearance. However, this did not bother Mark - he was happy with everything about his beloved, and their relationship only flourished and became stronger.
