Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg is an American media magnate, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is known for co-founding Facebook, Inc. and serves as its chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder. He also is a co-founder of the solar sail spacecraft development project Breakthrough Starshot and serves as one of its board members.

Born May 14, 1984 in White Plains, New York, Zuckerberg attended Harvard University, where he launched the Facebook social networking service from his dormitory room on February 4, 2004, with college roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. Originally launched to select college campuses, the site expanded rapidly and eventually beyond colleges, reaching one billion users by 2012. Zuckerberg took the company public in May 2012 with majority shares. In 2007, at age 23, he became the world's youngest self-made billionaire. As of November 2020, Zuckerberg's net worth is $101.2 billion, making him the 4th-richest person in the world. He is the only person under 40 years old in Forbes' list of the 20 richest people.

Since 2010, Time magazine has named Zuckerberg among the 100 most influential people in the world as a part of its Person of the Year award. In December 2016, Zuckerberg was ranked 10th on Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People.

Place of birth and education. Born May 14, 1984 in White Plains, state of New York, USA in a Jewish family.Father is a dentist, mother is a psychiatrist. His grandparents were from Germany, Austria and Poland. During his school years, he was engaged in computer programming, developed a network version of the game "Risk". Mark Zuckerberg did not complete higher education: in 2002, he entered Harvard University where he studied at the Faculty of Psychology until 2004. in parallel, Mark attended IT courses. He listed his interests as "C, C++, Java, Visual Basic, VBscript, JavaScript, PHP, and ASP." Zuckerberg has repeatedly characterized himself as a hacker by profession. Career. After turning down job offers from AOL and Microsoft, entered Harvard University at the Faculty of Psychology. It was at Harvard that Zuckerberg, together with Chris Hoogs and Dustin Moskowitz, ran to create the Facebook social network. Eduardo Saverin, a student of Brazilian origin, provided financial assistance to him. His attempts to remove Saverin from running the company in 2005 became the subject of legal proceedings. In January 2009, he met Yuri Milner in Palo Alto. On May 26, 2009, an agreement was signed under which DST bought 1.96% of Facebook shares for $200 million. Facebook .Zuckerberg became rich thanks to people's natural need for communication and their desire for popularity. In February 2004, he created the Facebook social network, in which users were invited to post photos and any information about themselves: from scientific and creative interests to gastronomic and love interests. Within four years, the ordinary social portal of the university has become the favorite Internet address for millions of registered users. Facebook became popular among students mainly due to the convenience of self-organization by groups, courses and parties that already exist in universities offline. As of the end of December 2008, more than 80,000 people were registered on the site. active participants, in November 2009 there were 350,000 of them. and the number of users is constantly growing. It is the most popular social network in most English-speaking countries.and the number of users is constantly growing. It is the most popular social network in most English-speaking countries. and the number of users is constantly growing. It is the most popular social network in most English-speaking countries. Conceived as a site for Harvard students to communicate, Facebook has become the world's first social network. Today, Forbes magazine estimates the site's annual sales at $150 million. Financial position. Having become rich, Mark Zuckerberg became the youngest billionaire in history, as he owns 24% of Facebook. In March 2010, Forbes magazine recognized him as one of the youngest billionaires on its list with a fortune of $4 billion. In the list of the richest Americans published by Forbes magazine in September 2010, Zuckerberg ranked 29th with a fortune of $7 billion. At the beginning of 2010, his fortune was estimated at $6.9 billion, and in 2010 it increased by 245%. In the ranking of the 400 richest people in the United States, published by Forbes magazine in 2011, Zuckerberg took 14th place with a fortune of $17.5 billion. On March 10, 2013, Mark Zuckerberg entered the Top 10 youngest billionaires, according to Forbes, he ranked 2nd, his fortune was $13.3 billion. On September 16, 2013, Mark Zuckerberg, with a personal fortune of $19 billion, was again on the 20th place in the list, according to Forbes magazine, the same place he occupied in 2011, before Facebook's IPO in May 2012. In December 2014, Mark took 14th place in the Forbes Top 15 with a fortune of $33.6 billion.