Mark zuckerberg biography summary

Name : Mark Zuckerberg.
Occupation : Entrepreneur, Computer programmer, philanthropist.
Years active : 2004–present.
Birth Date : May 14, 1984.
Education : Ardsley High School.
Phillips Exeter Academy.
Harvard University.
Place of birth : White Plains, New York.
Zodiac sign : Taurus

Born into a Jewish-American family. Living with his mother “Karen”, a psychiatrist and father “Edward”, a dentist. Along with his three sisters.

Attended Harvard University where he created the social network.

He serves as Facebook's CEO. He has been the subject of controversy for the origins of his business and his wealth. Mark fell under the Scientists Thinkers category for his web phenomenon, Facebook, and is ranked 52 out of 101 people.
Middle School:
Zuckerberg began using computers and writing software in middle school.

High School:
Zuckerberg took a graduate course in the subject at Mercy College near his home while still in high school.

During Zuckerberg’s high school years, under the company name Intelligent Media Group, he built a music player called the Synapse Media Player.

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3. Name : Mark Zuckerberg . Occupation : Entrepreneur, Computer programmer, philanthropist. Years active : 2004–present. Birth Date : May 14, 1984. Education : Ardsley High School. Phillips Exeter Academy. Harvard University. Place of birth : White Plains, New York. Zodiac sign : Taurus

4. Born into a Jewish-American family. Living with his mother “Karen”, a psychiatrist and father “Edward”, a dentist. Along with his three sisters. Attended Harvard University where he created the social network. He serves as Facebook's CEO. He has been the subject of controversy for the origins of his business and his wealth. Mark fell under the Scientists Thinkers category for his web phenomenon, Facebook, and is ranked 52 out of 101 people. Personal Life

5. Early Life Middle School: Zuckerberg began using computers and writing software in middle school. High School: Zuckerberg took a graduate course in the subject at Mercy College near his home while still in high school. During Zuckerberg’s high school years, under the company name Intelligent Media Group, he built a music player called the Synapse Media Player.

6. The Budding Programmer Zuckerberg developed an interest in computers at an early age. When he was about about 12, he used Atari BASIC to develop a messaging programme called ‘ Zucknet ’ . His father used the programme in his dental office so that the receptionist could inform him of a new patient without yelling across the room. The Zuckerberg family also used zucknet to communicate within the house. Together with his friends, who were artists, he used to create computer games for fun. To keep up with his burgeoning interest in computers his father hired a computer tutor to work with him who soon realised that it was tough to stay ahead of the prodigy.

7. College Years Began Classes at Harvard: By the time he began classes at Harvard, Zuckerberg had already achieved a “reputation as a programming prodigy”, notes Vargas. Launched “ Thefacebook ”. February 4, 2014, Zuckerberg launched “ Thefacebook ”, originally located at thefacebook.com.

8. 2 days before an art history final he realized he didn’t know the 500 images he was suppose to He set up a site and put the images online. All of his classmates commented on the images and they all had the notes for the class Art History Class

9. Business Started He tried his face book concept again with thefacebook.com (Feb 4, 2004) This time it was voluntary. Within 2 weeks half of Harvard had signed up. Within a few months it has spread to other universities.

10. Early Years of Business At the end of Sophomore year Mark moved out to Palo Alto into a rented apartment near Stanford. He ran into and roomed with Napster co-founder Sean Parker who introduced him to the ways of the Valley. Parker introduced Mark to Facebook’s first major investor PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel .

11. The Financial Side The very first investor in Facebook was technically Zuckerberg’s friend from Harvard, Eduardo Saverin . He ivested $15,000 to pay for the first servers. Although Saverin was the really the first, the person who gets the most credit for being the first investor is Peter Theil , former PayPal CEO, who invested $500,000 in June 2004.

12. What type of business is Facebook? Facebook is a privately owned and operated social network site owned by Facebook Incorporated. Facebook’s Mission Zuckerberg created Facebook as a way for people to share information and access information. If they have the ability to do this they are able to connect more with the people around them and understand more of what is going on in their world.

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14. Growth and Success 2004- Facebook was founded. 2005- Facebook launched a high school version. 2006- Facebook was open to everyone with valid email address. 2007- Facebook had 100000 business pages. 2008- Facebook set up it’s headquarter in Dublin, Ireland. 2009- It had turned cash flow positive for 1 st time. 2010- Facebook increased steadily as more people visited facebook than google . 2011- Facebook become second most accessed website in US. 2012- Facebook announced app center an online mobile store.

15. Facebook headquarters Palo alto, California

16. Interesting Facts About Facebook Microsoft wanted to invest in Facebook but was originally turned down. Now they own 1.6% of the company’s shares. Facebook has over 500 full time employees and is worth about $15 billion. On November 30, 2007 the 11th richest man in the world, Li Ka- shing , invested $60 million dollars in the company. There are over 250 million registered users on Facebook. Over 1 billion photos and 10 million videos are uploaded to Facebook each month. The age group that uses Facebook the most is 35-45 years.

17. Making Money Advertising. Sponsorships. Sometimes misguided attempts like the Facebook Beacon. Or “social advertising” – Are being sued for using someone’s name in an ad. Selling personal data of users.

18. The future Facebook is a massively successful social networking service that grew to prominence in virtually no time. It’s not hard to see why: its features and tools are highly appealing, and FACEBOOK users are extremely well networked in real life. In the short term, Facebook plans to continue to build out one of the world’s most successful social networks! “ Facebook's mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected” : Mark Zuckerberg (In an interview)

19. Leadership Secrets of Zuckerberg Follow your passion. Be prepare for criticism. Don’t be afraid to dare the giant. Take risk.

20. Successful Characteristics Motivated. Focus. Has T echnical Experience. Introvert Person. Determined. Not thinking Over Problems. Creative. Care Free Individual Persistent

21. Mark’s Achievement Campaign Media Awards 2007: Media Achiever of the Year - Mark Zuckerberg . Time Magazine added Mark as one of The world’s most influential people of 2008. Fast Company named Facebook number “15” in its list of the world's 50 most innovative companies of 2009. Made Synapse Media Player in High School. Created The Biggest Social Networking Site. Youngest Billionaire 9 th in World’s Powerful People Category. “Person Of The Year” by TIME in 2010. Was Top In the Fortune’s 40 under 40 List in 2011. 1 st in the List of Most Influential “Jewish” in the world from 2011 to 2013 by The Jerusalem Post. Ranked 36 th in Forbes 400 Billionaires with a rank of 16 th in U.S (17 th SEP 2013).

22. Awards and Honors Vanity Fair  magazine named Zuckerberg number 1 on its 2010 list of the Top 100 "most influential people of the Information Age".   Zuckerberg ranked number 23 on the  Vanity Fair  100 list in 2009.  In 2010, Zuckerberg was chosen as number 16 in  New Statesman' s annual survey of the world's 50 most influential figures. In 2007, Zuckerberg was named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.

23. Time Person of the Year 2010 World's 2nd youngest self-made billionaire. Forbes Lists 25 Powerful People 36 Forbes 400 - 9.4 B 35 Forbes Billionaires 16 in United States

24. “You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies.” Mark Zuckerberg CEO of Facebook has a net worth of ……. $1,400,000,000 THATS BILLION!

25. Zuckerberg Today Zuckerberg has a net worth of US $33.1  billion  (July 2014) . He is the youngest billionaire in the world at the age of 25. 212 richest person on the Forbes richest people List.

26. Mark As a Philanthropist Zuckerberg donated an undisclosed amount to Diaspora, an open-source personal web server that implements a distributed social networking service. On September 22, 2010, it was reported that Zuckerberg had donated $100 million to Newark Public Schools, the public school system of Newark, New Jersey. On December 9, 2010, Zuckerberg , Bill Gates, and investor Warren Buffett signed a promise they called the "Giving Pledge", in which they promised to donate to charity at least half of their wealth over the course of time, and invited others among the wealthy to donate 50% or more of their wealth to charity.

27. Mark As a Philanthropist On December 18, 2012, Zuckerberg announced a donation of 18 million Facebook shares to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, which at the time of the donation were worth a total of about $500 million USD. On February 13, 2013, Zuckerberg hosted his first ever fundraising event for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Zuckerberg's particular interest on this occasion was education reform, and Christie's education reform work focused on teachers unions and the expansion of charter schools. On April 11, 2013, Zuckerberg led the launch of a lobbying group called  FWD.us

28. Married Life A day after taking his company public and raising his wealth to more than $19 billion, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg married his long time girlfriend, Priscilla Chan. The 28-year-old entrepreneur posted the news on his Facebook timeline Saturday evening, adding a life event reading “Married Priscilla Chan”.

29. Quotes From Mark Zuckerberg "The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is  not taking risks ."  (Oct. 2011)   "In a world that's changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."  --From an October 2011 interview at  Y Combinator's Startup School  in Palo Alto, California. "The question isn't 'What do we want to know about people?' It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?" -- From a November 2011 interview with  Charlie Rose. "Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough."  --In an interview with Business Insider's Henry Blodget

30. In an interview in 2007, Zuckerberg explained his reasoning: “It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me.”

31. After knowing a little bit more about mark Zuckerberg we can conclude that as “EVERY COIN HAS TWO SIDES” same way his innovation FACEBOOK also has both good and bad effects. If used in a proper way it is a sensational innovation. It motivated a lot of youngsters to come forward and innovate something new! Conclusion