Mark Zuckerberg (CEO of Facebook) Biography

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is the CEO, founder and president of Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg is also an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is also the co-founder and board member of the solar sail spacecraft development project Breakthrough Starshot.

Mark Zuckerberg Biography

Name	Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
Born	May 14, 1984
Nationality	American
Age	39 years
Net Worth	$113 billion
Spouse	Priscilla Chan
Children	Maxima Chan Zukerberg, August Chan Zukerberg
Father	Edward Zuckerberg
Mother	Karen Kempner
Born Country	United States
Profession	Chief Executive Officer of Facebook
Sister’s	Arielle , Donna Zuckerberg , Randi Jayne Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg: Birth and Family

Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, to Karen and Edward Zuckerberg in White Plains, New York. His father is a dentist and his mother is a psychiatrist. Mark Zuckerberg has three sisters– Randi, Donna and Arielle.

Mark Zuckerberg: Education

Mark Zuckerberg did his schooling from Ardsley High School (1998-2000) and Phillips Exeter Academy (2000-2002) where he won several prizes in mathematics, astronomy, physics, and classical studies. He was also the school captain there. He also attended a summer camp at Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. Mark Zuckerberg enrolled himself at Harvard University (2002-2004). He even mentioned in his application form that he can read and write French, Hebrew, Latin, and ancient Greek.

College Life & Development of Facebook

While Mark Zuckerberg was in high school, he landed a job at a company called Intelligent Media Group to develop a music player called Synapse Media Player. He had already garnered a reputation as a programming prodigy when he enrolled in Harvard in 2002. As part of the class of 2006, he was pursuing degrees in psychology and computer science and was a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi and Kirkland House.
During his sophomore year, he developed a program that he named Facemash, which allowed the students to pick the best-looking person from a selection of photographs.
After being active during the weekend, Facemash was closed down by Harvard as it clogged one of its network switches and denied many students access to the internet. There were also complaints from many students about the use of their photographs without their consent. Zuckerberg eventually made a public apology.
In January 2004, he developed the code for his new website. On 4 February, he launched “TheFacebook” from his college dormitory. At first, their service was limited only to Harvard but later Zuckerberg decided to expand it to other schools.

Mark Zuckerberg Founding Facebook

The founding of Facebook has been scrutinized for years. While Zuckerberg played a pivotal role in the company’s launch, there were many other students at Harvard who played major or minor roles in the company’s startup.

As a Harvard student, Zuckerberg met fellow students and helped work on concepts like FaceMash, which allowed individuals to rate fellow students on attractiveness, and Harvard Connection, a networking site. Zuckerberg worked on both ideas and drew insights from them before launching his own project, named The Facebook.

The founding was not without controversy. Other Harvard students, like Divya Narendra, Cameron Winklevoss, and Tyler Winklevoss, sued Zuckerberg for alleged intellectual property theft from HarvardConnection.com.

After launching in 2004, it became an immediate hit. The first day saw up to 1,500 students sign up for the site. It quickly expanded to allow other universities to join before going public.

Mark Zuckerberg Career

In 2004, during his sophomore year, Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard and subsequently relocated to Silicon Valley. He, Moskovitz, and some of their friends rented a house in Palo Alto which became their office.
By mid-2004, they had already found several investors and moved their base of operation to an actual office. However, they repeatedly thwarted attempts by major corporations to purchase their fledgling company. As Zuckerberg later stated, the mission of Facebook is to make the world open; it was never about the money.
In July 2010, Zuckerberg announced that the number of active users on the app has reached 500 million. That year, he ranked first on Vanity Fair’s list of the Top 100 “most influential people of the Information Age”. In October 2012, they reached the one billion-user milestone. In June 2017, Zuckerberg reported that Facebook has garnered two billion users.
In August 2004, Zuckerberg, Andrew McCollum, Adam D’Angelo, and Sean Parker founded Wirehog, a peer-to-peer file sharing service. However, compared to its biggest competitor, i2hub, it garnered much less traction and was eventually shut down.
In May 2007, he launched Facebook Platform, an initiative that encourages third-party developers to create applications for Facebook. The present version of Facebook Platform was introduced in 2010.
In 2012, Facebook acquired the photo and video sharing social media platform, Instagram. Two years later, the company acquired the mobile messaging app, WhatsApp.
In August 2013, Facebook, Samsung, Ericsson, MediaTek, Opera Software, Nokia and Qualcomm launched a project called Internet.org to usher in better and more affordable access to selected internet services in under-developed and developing countries.
Zuckerberg has met world leaders, such as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the technology infrastructure in those countries. While Facebook is banned in China, the people of the country hold Zuckerberg in high regard.

Mark Zuckerberg Net Worth

Net Worth (2024)	$125 Billion
Net Worth In Indian Rupees	10 Lakh Crore
Profession	Businessmen
Monthly Income	$1 Billion +
Yearly Income	$12 Billion +

Mark Zuckerberg Relationship

August — Daughter
Maxima Chan Zuckerberg — Daughter
Edward Zuckerberg — Father
Karen (née Kempner) — Mother
Arielle — Sister
Donna Zuckerberg — Sister
Randi Jayne Zuckerberg — Sister
Priscilla Chan — Wife

Becoming Meta Platforms

In October 2021, Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would now be called Meta Platforms. The decision was made to focus more broadly on social technology and virtual reality, rather than just Facebook. The purchase of Oculus VR and other artificial intelligence companies help highlight this transition. Zuckerberg hopes to become a leader in fully immersive experiences in the metaverse.

Mark Zuckerberg: Famous Quotes

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.
When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.
The web is at a really important turning point right now. Up until recently, the default on the web has been that most things aren’t social, and most things don’t use your real identity. We’re building toward a web where the default is social.
With a generation of younger folks who have thrived on the success of their companies, there is a big opportunity for many of us to give back earlier in our lifetime and see the impact of our philanthropic efforts.
Understanding people is not a waste of time.
What Facebook is today isn’t a set of information, it’s a community of people who are using Facebook to stay connected and share information. They are only going to do that as long as they trust us.
Everything I do breaks, but I fix it quickly.
Apps aren’t the centre of the world. People are.
Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.
A lot of people who are worried about privacy and those kinds of issues will take any minor misstep that we make and turn it into as big a deal as possible.

Mark Zuckerberg FAST FACTS

Grew up in a Reform Jewish household
His father hired a private computer tutor to teach him programming
Created an instant messaging program for his father’s dental office when he was 12
Launched Facebook on February 4, 2004, while attending Harvard University
Facebook’s logo is blue because he is red-green colorblind and sees the color blue best
In 2015, co-founded the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Mark Zuckerberg: Marriage, Divorce, Children

Marriage

In 2012, just after Facebook’s IPO, Mark Zuckerberg married Priscilla Chan. Chan was a student at Harvard at the same time as Mark, though she completed her education, and the couple had been dating since their college years. Zuckerberg and Chan had a surprise wedding, where around 100 people gathered to celebrate Chan’s medical school graduation. Instead, the couple exchanged vows and Chan became his wife.

Children

Maxima Chan Zuckerberg was born on November 30, 2015. Their second daughter, August Chan Zuckerberg, was born on August 28, 2017. They are raising their children in a down-to-earth way and attempting not to spoil them by buying whatever their daughters want. The Zuckerbergs report that their children have very limited screen time and have chores as a way to help the family around the house.

Divorce

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, his wife, remain married. Zuckerberg hasn’t been divorced and there are no reports or rumors of marital issues.

Mark Zuckerberg Awards

In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg was named the Person of the Year by ‘Time’ magazine.
He was awarded CEO of the Year accolade at the 6th annual Crunchies in 2013.
In May 2017, several years after dropping out of Harvard, Zuckerberg received an honorary degree from the college at its 366th commencement ceremony.
In December 2017, he earned the dubious distinction of being named the recipient of the “Misinformer of the Year” award from the progressive media outlet group, Media Matters.

Mr. Mark Zuckerberg’s Assets

House Properties

Zuckerberg and Chan hold almost $200 million of land and buildings globally. They have many lands situated in Hawaii, some places in Palo Alto, and a townhouse in San Francisco.

Mark has a 5,000-square-foot residence located in Palo Alto. He also purchased the homes around it to create a personal area. He paid $43 million on these properties. He plans to remodel 2 homes and build new single-story houses for the other two.

In 2013, he got a big place for $10 million in San Francisco. The home was made a long time ago and has a big lawn. He spent a huge sum on fixing it up, including $65,000 for the kitchen and bathroom.

Zuckerberg’s Controversies

Mark Zuckerberg has been involved in many controversies since his college days. In his college days, three Harvard students named Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra accused him that he made false promises to them for creating a social network which was called HarvardConncetion.com and later named connect. The three Harvard students filed a lawsuit against him in the year 2004.

Again in the year 2005, one of the co-founders of Facebook named Eduardo Saverin filed a case against Mark and also on Facebook. He alleged that Zuckerberg had spent his money on some of these personal expenses. Afterwards, this case was settled by them out of court and Eduardo asserted the designation of Facebook co-founder and Saverin then also agreed to not communicate with the press on these issues.

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