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Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) 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. 

Mark Zuckerberg

He also is a co-founder of the solar sail spacecraft development project Breakthrough Starshot and serves as one of its board members.

Interesting facts:

  • >>Since 2010, Time magazine has named Zuckerberg among the 100 wealthiest and most influential people in the world as a part of its Person of the Year award
  • >>Zuckerberg was raised in a Reform Jewish household, and his ancestors hailed from Germany, Austria and Poland. He had a Star Wars-themed bar mitzvah when he turned 13!
  • >>Zuckerberg began using computers and writing software in middle school. His father taught him Atari BASIC Programming in the 1990s, and later hired software developer David Newman to tutor him privately.
  • >>Raised Jewish, Zuckerberg once identified as an atheist but has since revised his views. In 2016, he said: "I was raised Jewish and then I went through a period where I questioned things, but now I believe religion is very important"
  • >>He met his then-future wife, fellow Harvard student Priscilla Chan, at a fraternity party during his sophomore year there. They began dating in 2003. On May 19, 2012, they married in his backyard.
  • >>On December 1, Zuckerberg announced the birth of their daughter, Maxima Chan Zuckerberg. They welcomed their second daughter, August, in August 2017

 

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