Facts about Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg is the co-founder of Facebook as well as the company’s chairman and CEO. On March 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York, he was born Mark Elliot Zuckerberg to Karen (nee Kempner) and Edward Zuckerberg. His father is a dentist, and his mother is a psychiatrist. He was raised in Dobbs Ferry, New York, and attended Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, where he excelled. He started writing software while still in middle school. While attending Harvard, he founded Facebook from his dorm room. He dropped out in his sophomore year to focus on Facebook and is now a billionaire.

Arielle, Donna, and Randi Zuckerberg are Mark Zuckerberg’s three sisters.

In the 1990s, Mark’s father taught him Atari BASIC programming.

When Mark Zuckerberg was younger, a software developer named David Newman was hired to tutor him.

When Mark was at home, he wrote a program called ZuckNET that allowed all of the computers in his parents’ house and home office to communicate with one another.

Mark Zuckerberg was offered jobs at Microsoft and AOL while still in high school, but he declined.

The birth of Facebook was the subject of the film The Social Network.

Facebook began as a Harvard-only service, but it quickly expanded to Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, Penn, New York University, Stanford, Brown, and even Yale.

By July of 2010, Facebook had 500 million users, and Mark Zuckerberg was ranked 16th among the 50 most influential people in the New Statesman’s annual poll.

Mark Zuckerberg was advised by Steve Jobs to form a management team “focused on building as high quality and good things as you are.”

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook profile was hacked in 2013.

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, is paid $1 per day.

As part of his Giving Pledge commitment, Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to donate 50% of his wealth or more during his lifetime.

In 2003, Mark Zuckerberg began dating his future wife, Priscilla Chan. They married in 2012, the same year she graduated from medical school.

In 2015, Mark and Priscilla Zuckerberg welcomed the birth of their daughter Maxima Chan Zuckerberg. They had three miscarriages and had postponed announcing their pregnancy. They announced in March 2017 that they are expecting their second child.

Mark Zuckerberg was a critic of the film The Social Network, claiming that many minor details were correct while many major details were incorrect.

Mark Zuckerberg has made numerous charitable and philanthropic contributions, including a $100 million donation to Newark Public Schools.

In May 2013, Mark Zuckerberg was named to the Fortune 500 for the first time. He was the youngest CEO at the age of 28.

Mark Zuckerberg’s company, Facebook, has had its fair share of legal problems, including lawsuits and criminal investigations concerning content and ownership.

Mark Zuckerberg appeared as himself on The Simpsons in the episode “Loan a Lisa.”

Mark Zuckerberg was raised Jewish but once considered himself an atheist. He has since regained his religious faith.