Mark Zuckerberg (May 14, 1984) programmer and entrepreneur, creator of Facebook . His birth name is Mark Elliot Zuckerberg. He was born in White Plains, United States. His father, Edward Zuckerberg, was a dentist, and his mother, Karen Kempner, was a psychiatrist. Most of his life he was raised in a small village in Westchester Dobbs County: Ferry, New York. His family raised him Jewish, he had his Bar Mitzvah at age 13. He studied at Ardsley High School, Zuckerberg was an outstanding student.
Mark Zuckerberg Biography
His parents saw that the young man needed a higher quality education, so they took him to the exclusive private school Phillips Exeter Academy, in New Hampshire, where thanks to his good performance and love of numbers he won prizes in mathematics, astronomy and physics and classical studies. One of the things he most enjoyed about him was attending the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth summer camp, this was a key place where Zuckerberg could unleash his imagination, curiosity and ingenuity. Zuckerberg could read and write French, Hebrew, Latin, and ancient Greek.Another of his hobbies was fencing training, and he was the team leader.
He usually wears jeans with gray T-shirts and has stated that he decided to eat only the meat of animals that he kills himself; so he became almost a vegetarian. He also decided that when he died he wants to donate all his organs. Mark is colorblind and curiously the color that he best distinguishes is blue. He is a philanthropist and every year he sets a different goal in order to learn something new. 
Mark Zuckerberg Career
At the age of 18 he undertook a computer project with a friend named Adam D’Angelo, ex- Facebook technical chief , the project was called Synapse Media Player. The program was very successful because its purpose was to play music, it also provided certain tools such as preference and previous selections, which made it easier for the user to use.
When they began to see the popularity of the program and the good results, important software companies such as Microsoft or Apple sought to acquire the rights, but in the end nothing materialized. Mark independently decided to upload his application to the network, so that users could download it for free. Zuckerberg had the support of several prominent engineers from Harvard University, some of the people who helped him were Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.
The first was the computer science coordinator, the others were his roommates. In 2002 he entered Harvard University. Two years later, with the help of some colleagues, he launched a new website: the Facebook social network . One of the most famous social networks worldwide today. We must mention that Facebook emerged with the initial intention of creating a network of connection between students at Harvard University. The name of the website was inspired by a newsletter that many universities give to their new students so that they can meet other students within the center.
Mark made it a priority for Facebook to allow adding friends, with whom you could exchange photos and messages, create groups of friends. Each user had a wall (wall) to allow friends to write messages. Subsequently, various modifications were made to the website. In a short time, Facebook became viral and very popular among young university students. In just two weeks, two-thirds of Harvard students had signed up for Facebook , and in just months several students from other universities had created their username. After a while, Mark Zuckerberg took the opportunity to move to Palo Alto, California, with the intention of founding his first office.
The young man had to drop out of college because Facebook needed his full attention. This idea soon reached companies and schools. Given the success, the programmer decided to expand his services to the general public. In 2006 Facebook had become a worldwide phenomenon, only in countries such as Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States, it had some 64 million users. This is also because Facebook was only available in English. By 2008 , Facebook had branched out and embraced multiple languages, including French, German, and Spanish. After that, its popularity and users grew like foam.
In 2007 Forbes magazine published the ranking of the 25 most influential people on the Internet. Zuckerberg, as the site’s chief executive, was clearly part of the list. One of his greatest achievements was selling 1.6 percent of the portal to Microsoft for 256 million euros . In 2008 Zuckerberg was one of the 1,125 richest men in the world according to Forbes. He and also one of the youngest wealthy. His offices in 2008 already occupied four buildings and had about 400 employees; Both Viacom and Yahoo! were interested in buying shares in Facebook .
His biggest income came from his contract with Microsoft on advertisements. One of his great competitions at the beginning was MySpace, owned by News Corp, Rupert Murdoch‘s empire. But quickly Facebook grew three times faster than its rival. But after being at this point of fame and importance, three of his colleagues who initially collaborated in the creation of Facebook decided to take legal action claiming that Zuckerberg had “seized the idea”. The creator of Facebook has strong philanthropic leanings. He joined The Giving Pledge campaign, an initiative led by billionaires Bill Gatesand Warren Buffett who seeks that the great tycoons donate half of their fortunes to philanthropic causes.
Time magazine mentioned him as the character of the year, and Hollywood took the opportunity to launch a biopic about a 26-year-old character: The Social Network (2010). Based on Ben Mezrich’s book Accidental Billionaires directed by David Fincher.
Mark Zuckerberg Net Worth
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is one of the richest people in the world. The billionaire tech chief, who was once rumored to be considering a run for president, has added an average of $9 billion to his net worth per year since 2012.
In September 2020, Forbes reported that Facebook co-founder and chairman Mark Zuckerberg had a net worth of $103.8 billion, while the Bloomberg Billionaire Index listed his net worth at $107 billion. This ranks him, along with Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk, as one of the richest people on Earth. However, his exact positions and net worths are forever changing. Zuck, like his fellow billionaires, is only getting richer and richer, reportedly making $1 million an hour . But his net worth has also dipped slightly at times.
One of those drops was due to a decline in Facebook’s share price, thanks to the controversy surrounding Facebook’s involvement in the Cambridge Analytica data breach, which shared sensitive user data for political campaigns. Zuckerberg has also faced criticism for his continued refusal to moderate hate-voice on the site and prevent the spread of fake news, prompting more than 40 big-name advertisers including Verizon, Honda and Ben & Jerry’s to boycott the company in July 2020.
Yet despite these setbacks, Facebook’s willingness to compete with every social platform that hits the market has helped the president bounce back. According to CNN , Facebook shares rose nearly 30 percent from January to August 2020, adding $22 billion to Zuckerberg’s net worth. Stock rose, in part, thanks to Facebook’s new Reels feature, implemented to compete with TikTok.
Most people can only dream of what life as a billionaire would be like. The lives of the rich and famous give the average person a glimpse of all the things they could do with such massive amounts of money. Some buy expensive cars, some buy expensive clothes, and some even buy private islands.
In 2019, Zuckerberg spent $59 million on waterfront properties in Lake Tahoe, California. This was the top of his $7 million dollar family home in Palo Alto, California, plus his two massive properties in Kauai, Hawaii, worth over $100 million combined. For Business Insider, Zuck also tends to buy the surrounding houses from his estate for the sake of privacy, because hey, he can afford it.
The Facebook chairman and his wife Priscilla Chan have also pledged much of their fortune to philanthropy. In 2015, the couple announced that they would give away 99 percent of their Facebook stake over the course of their lifetime. Zuckerberg and Chan are also planning to spend $3 billion to “end, cure, or manage all disease by the year 2100.
Mark Zuckerberg Private Life
On May 19, 2012, Mark and Priscilla were married at their home in Palo Alto, California. Some time later they tried to be parents for the first time. This was not easy, since Pricsilla had successive abortions that led the couple to think that they would not fulfill their dream of being parents. Fortunately this changed after several attempts and Priscilla became pregnant. When Maxima was born on November 30, 2015, Mark wrote a letter announcing her arrival but also surprised by creating a foundation called the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, to which they donated 99% of their Facebook shares. With this, the couple wanted to contribute to the improvement of human potential.
The birth of August Chan Zuckerberg was in August of last year, which took Mark by surprise, since due to the complications of his wife’s first pregnancy, he believed it would be almost impossible to become a father again. In the same way that they did with his firstborn, Mark and Priscilla published a letter expressing the wish that their two daughters live in a better world.
