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Mark Elliot Zuckerberg aka Mark Zuckerberg is media mogul, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist from the United States. The social media platform Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.), of which he is the chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder, are well known for being co-founded by him. The world’s youngest self-made billionaire at the time was 23 years old in 2007. According to Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires, as of March 2022, Zuckerberg’s net worth was $74.5 billion.
Mark Zuckerberg Biography And Net Worth:
| Net Worth $74.5 Billion |
| Full Name Mark Elliot Zuckerberg |
| Birth Date 14 May 1984 |
| Birthplace White Plains, New York, U.S. |
| Age 38 years |
| Occupation Computer Programmer, Facebook CEO |
| Wife Priscilla Chan |
Mark Zuckerberg Early life
Mark Zuckerberg or Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, was born in White Plains, New York, on May 14, 1984. Zuckerberg excelled in school. Prior to going to Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire during his junior year, he attended Ardsley High School.
He also attended the summer program run by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth. According to reports, Zuckerberg speaks French, Hebrew, Latin, and ancient Greek with ease.
Since he was in school, Zuckerberg has been developing software. In the 1990s, his father taught him Atari BASIC Programming, which served as some of his earliest programming lessons. David Newman, a software developer, later instructed him. Zucknet, which is regarded as an ancestor of AOL’s Instant Messenger, was one of his early programs.
Mark Zuckerberg and the Development of Facebook
When he enrolled at Harvard in 2002, he had a reputation as a programming genius. He was a member of Kirkland House and Alpha Epsilon Pi and was a member of the class of 2006, pursuing degrees in computer technology and psychology.
He created a tool called Facemash during his second year of college that allowed the students to determine the most attractive individual from a collection of pictures.
Facemash was shut down by Harvard after being active over the weekend because it blocked one of the school’s network switches and prevented many students from accessing the internet.
In January 2004 Mark wrote the programming for his new website. He started “TheFacebook” on February 4th from his college residence with his roomates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. Their service was first solely available to Harvard students, but later Zuckerberg decided to make it available to other institutions.
Mark Zuckerberg left Harvard in 2004, after his second year, and later settled in Silicon Valley. In Palo Alto, he, Moskovitz, and a few of his buddies rented a home that served as their office.
They had already secured numerous investors by the middle of 2004 and had relocated their operations to a physical office.
Mark Zuckerberg Career
In July 2010, Zuckerberg declared that there were 500 million active users of the app. On Vanity Fair’s list of the Top 100 “most influential people of the Information Age” that year, he came in the first place. Zuckerberg stated that Facebook now has two billion users in June 2017.
Instagram, a social media site for sharing photos and videos, was purchased by Facebook in 2012. The business bought WhatsApp, a mobile messaging service, two years later.
An initiative called Internet.org was established in August 2013 by Facebook, Samsung, Ericsson, MediaTek, Opera Software, Nokia, and Qualcomm to improve and lower the cost of access to specific internet services in developing and underdeveloped nations.
Family
One of Karen and Edward Zuckerberg’s four children and their only son is Mark Zuckerberg. His father is a dentist, while his mother is a psychiatric nurse.
Randi, Donna, and Arielle are his three sisters. They were raised in a Reform Jewish home in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
Wife
At a fraternity party while Mark Zuckerberg was still a student at Harvard, he met biology student Priscilla Chan. They allegedly started dating around 2003. On May 19, 2012, they were wed in Zuckerberg’s backyard.
Prior to giving birth to their daughter, Maxima, in 2015, Chan had three miscarriages. August, their second child, was born in August 2017.
Net worth
As of June 2022, Mark Zuckerberg’s estimated net worth is $74.5 billion. On August 7, 2020, Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth surpassed $100 billion for the first time. His net worth was $126 billion on January 1, 2022, placing him among the top five richest persons in the world. Unfortunately, Mark’s fortunes declined during the following few months as Facebook’s stock price fell by 50% from about $340 per share to $170.
As part of its Person of the Year honor, given to Zuckerberg in 2010, Time magazine has included him in its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world since 2008. On Forbes’ list of The World’s Most Powerful People in December 2016, Zuckerberg came in at number 10.
Chan and Zuckerberg have global real estate and land holdings totaling about $200 million. A townhouse in San Francisco, multiple mansions in Palo Alto, and 1,400 acres in Hawaii are a few of their most prominent real estate holdings.
