1. About Mark Zuckerberg :
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American media magnate, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is known for co-founding the social media website Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms, of which he is the chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder.
2. Date of Birth : Zuckerberg was born in New York on May 14th, 1984.
3. Zuckerberg and Facebook : He was 19 years old when he started Facebook in 2004, and four years later in 2008, he became the youngest self-made billionaire in the world.
4. Before Facebook : Before creating Facebook, Zuckerberg was the go-to programmer at Harvard and started taking psychology and computer science courses. He started Facebook for students to match names with photos of classmates.
5. Zuckerberg first launched Facebook from his dormitory at Harvard University
6. Parents : Mark Zuckerberg’s parents were both professionals. His father, Edward Zuckerberg was a dentist, and his mother, Karen Kempner was a psychiatrist.
7. Zuckerberg began programming at the young age of 12 by creating a messaging program that his father used in his dental office, allowing the receptionist to notify him of new patients without yelling across the office
8. Siblings : He has three sisters – Randi, Arielle, and Donna.
9. Wife : Priscilla Chan. Zuckerberg and his wife, feature in Forbes’ list of America’s Most Philanthropic Billionaires. So far, they’ve given $2.7 billion to charity.
10. Children : Zuckerberg has two daughters – Maxima and August
11. Interests : Zuckerberg is a fitness buff. Staying in shape is very important to him, so he goes running at least three times a week.
12. Zuckerberg takes social responsibility very seriously thus he has committed billions to the improvement of human life. He and his wife collaborate and run Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) and the goal of CZI is to manage all diseases by 2100.
13. A movie was made about Zuckerberg and the birth of Facebook called “The Social Network”
14. Zuckerberg was not a fan of “The Social Network”, arguing that many of the movie’s details were inaccurate
15. Mark Zuckerberg has a $1 annual salary as CEO of Facebook similar to Steve Jobs. However, through other forms of compensation, he was paid more than $23.4 million in fiscal 2019.
16. Zuckerberg took Facebook public in May 2012; he now owns about 12% of the company’s stock
17. Zuckerberg has a net worth of $124 billion.
18. Zuckerberg lost $6 billion in a few hours in October 2021, due to the leaked information about Facebook
19. Facebook made the Fortune 500 list for the first time, making Zuckerberg, at the age of 28, the youngest CEO on the list
20. Zuckerberg has supported several philanthropic causes, most famously donating $100 million to rescue the struggling Newark Public Schools system of New Jersey
21. In 2014, Zuckerberg donated $25 million to combat the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa
22. Zuckerberg was Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” in 2010 and 2013
23. Zuckerberg is currently #10 on Forbes’s list of the 400 richest Americans
24. Zuckerberg’s famous gray t-shirt is one of Brunello Cucinelli’s custom designs and it costs $300-$400 per piece is made in Italy out of 100% mercerized combed cotton.
25. On October 28, 2021, Zuckerberg announced Facebook’s new corporate name “Meta” to build the next generation of online interaction, known as the “metaverse.”
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