Mark Zuckerberg Biography

Mark Zuckerberg is an American programmer Internet entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the chairman chief executive and co-founder of the social networking website Facebook. His net worth is estimated to be US$52 billion as of 8 May 2016. Graduated in 2003 from Phillips Exeter Academy, Mark joined Harvard. Together with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin Andrew McCollum Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes he officially launched Facebook in 2004, a social network designed primarily for students of Harvard and other universities, the success was immediate. Facebook expanded rapidly with one billion users by 2012. In December 2012 Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan announced they would give the majority of their wealth over the course of their lives to advancing human potential and promoting equality in the spirit of The Giving Pledge. On 2015 they announced they would give 99% of their Facebook shares (worth about $45 billion at the time) to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. 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 distinction. Mark has been in trial twice, the first one against the Winklevoss twins who accused him of intellectual property offense, the second one against Eduardo Saverin, co-founder of The Facebook ( the first version of Facebook), who was his roommate at Harvard but also his best friend. In 2010, Facebook counted 500 million members and had a turnover of $ 500 million in 2009. It is the 5th most visited website in the world. In 2011, Mark Zuckerberg leaded the way of the most powerful figure according to Medias ahead Rupert Murdoch, Larry Page and Steve Jobs (The Guardian).

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