Born and raised in New York state, Zuckerberg began writing software as a hobby in middle school, with help from his father and a tutor (who called him a prodigy). In high school, he excelled in classic literature and fencing while studying at Phillips Exeter Academy.
Zuckerberg later attended Harvard College, majoring in computer science and psychology. In his sophomore year, he wrote a notorious application that he called Facemash that allowed students on the college's network to vote on the relative attractiveness of other students. It was shut down within days, and led to disciplinary action.
Together with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes they launched Facebook from their dormitory room. They took Facebook to other campuses nationwide and soon after moved to Palo Alto, California. By 2007, Facebook had made him a billionaire at the age of 23.
By 2010, Facebook had an estimated 500 million users worldwide and reached 1 billion in 2012. Zuckerberg was involved in various legal disputes initiated by others who claimed a share of the company due to their help in setting it up. Since 2010, Zuckerberg has been named among the 100 wealthiest and most influential people in the world by Time magazine's Person of the Year. In 2010 the founding of Facebook was made into a major Hollywood movie, The Social Network where he was portrayed by Jesse Eisenberg.
Achievement and Superb Facts About Mark Zuckerberg
- Facebook is blue because Zuckerberg is color-blind: According to a 2010 profile from the New Yorker, Facebook’s main color is blue because Zuckerberg has a red-green color blindness. In the interview, he told reporter Jose Antonio Vargas that “blue is the richest color for me — I can see all of blue.”
- He says he’s not that interested in money: This is a well-known fact, but one that continues to surprise. In several interviews and goals statements, Zuckerberg has made it clear that making money is not his first aim — connecting the world is.
- He’s spent a year trying to only eat meat that he kills: Zuckerberg sets annual challenges for himself, and the challenge for 2011 was to move toward vegetarianism and only eat meat that he killed himself.
- He designed his wife’s wedding ring: Zuckerberg was the one who designed wife Priscilla Chan’s wedding ring, which is a ruby flanked on either side by diamonds. The ring has been a strange target of criticism, with the Daily Mail criticizing the gem’s size and saying that it’s not nearly the rock that one would expect of a billionaire.
- Zuckerberg was named four consecutive times in Time 100 list from 2009 to 2012. This year, he was among "The All-Time TIME 100 of All Time".
- As of 2012, his personal wealth is $17.5 billion and that makes him the world's youngest billionaire.
- While he was still in high school (equivalent to secondary school in the UK) he wrote a program that would recommend music based on what you liked.
- He was approached by Microsoft, which was interested in buying it, but he declined.
- On his college application, Zuckerberg listed non-English languages he could read and write as French, Hebrew, Latin, and ancient Greek.
- On Zuckerberg's Facebook page, he listed his personal interests as "openness, making things that help people connect and share what's important to them, revolutions, information flow, minimalism."
- Mark Zuckerberg was an Dropped out student of Harvard and he is Successful in Connecting the 10% of world Population through his social networking
- He was the Youngest Billionaire in the World , He became Billionaire at the age of 23 in the Year 2008
- Zuckerberg took the risk and in his dorm room, developed the social phenomenon in 2004 with his college roommates Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin, while he was an undergraduate at the Harvard University studying computer science.
- The world's largest social networking website is seeking as much as $100 billion in its initial public offering making it worth more than iconic companies such as Disney, Ford and Kraft Foods.
- At 28, Zuckerberg is exactly half the age of the average S&P 500 CEO, according to executive search firm Spencer Stuart. But the hoodie boy has done really well for himself so far, and further as well, he will get pulled himself into many new uprising directions once Facebook IPO begins.
- Going into his history, Mark Zuckerberg, fully named Mark Elliot Zuck Zuckerberg, was born May 14, 1984 in White Plains, New York. He is regarded as the next Bill Gates. Zuckerberg is a dropout from the Harvard University and still he has been listed as the 14th richest man in the world in the Forbes list.
- When still in college, he built a software program called "ZuckNet," which allowed all the computers between the house and his father's dental office to communicate by pinging each other. It is considered a "primitive" version of AOL's Instant Messenger.
- At Harvard, he built a site and placed two random photos of his college mates. Visitors to the site had to choose who was "hotter". But the site was pulled down within two days because its popularity had overwhelmed Harvard's server and prevented students from accessing the Internet.
- So many businesses get worried about looking like they might make a mistake, they become afraid to take any risk. Companies are set up so that people judge each other on failure. I am not going to get fired if we have a bad year. Or a bad five years. I don’t have to worry about making things look good if they’re not. I can actually set up the company to create value.
- The question I ask myself like almost every day is, ‘Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?’… Unless I feel like I’m working on the most important problem that I can help with, then I’m not going to feel good about how I’m spending my time. And that’s what this company is.
- I know it sounds corny, but I’d love to improve people’s lives, especially socially… Making the world more open is not an overnight thing. It’s a ten-to-fifteen-year thing.
- Thanks to all of these efforts, our business is doing really well, and we're on track to create a nice self-sustaining business, and because of this, a lot of companies and firms have approached us about investing in the company.
- Growth is a strategic thing for us...We're not as focused on optimizing revenue. Now, people have said we're not thinking about it and not developing a strategy, but that's completely wrong. We have thousands and thousands of...
- Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission...to make the world more open and connected.
- Phones are inherently social devices and the industry is just beginning to discover what's possible.
- Every application will be designed from the ground up to use real identity and friends.
- The web is at a really important turning point right now. Up until recently, the default on the web has been that most things arent social and most things dont use your real identity. Were building toward a web where the default is social.
- A lot of companies can go off course because of corporate pressures...I don't know what we are going to be building five years from now. I don't know what we are going to be building three years from now.
- Our mission is to make the world more open and connected. We do this by giving people the power to share whatever they want and be connected to whoever they want, no matter where they are.
- The company is definitely set up in a way where myself and the other founders have a lot of control over it.
- If you don't need that capital, then all the pressures are different, and the motivations to go public are not there in the same way.
- I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.
- I think as a company, if you can get those two things right — having a clear direction on what you are trying to do and bringing in great people who can execute on the stuff — then you can do pretty well
- We look for people who are passionate about something. In a way, it almost doesn’t matter what you’re passionate about. What we really look for when we’re interviewing people is what they’ve shown an initiative to do on their own
- I believe that over time, people get remembered for what they build, and if you build something great, people don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie… they care about what you build.”
- Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life.
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