Zuckerberg, Mark

Mark was born on May 14, 1984 in White Plains ( New York State ), a few kilometers north of the city of New York , into a Jewish family. Father - dentist Edward Zuckerberg (as of 2012 he continued to practice). Mother is a psychiatrist Karen Zuckerberg. His grandparents were from Germany, Austria and Poland. He was the second child and only boy of 4 children in the family; his sisters are Randy (Sr.), Donna and Ariel.

In his school years, Mark was engaged in computer programming and developed a network version of the game " Risk " ^[7] .

Mark Zuckerberg did not complete higher education: in 2002 he entered Harvard University , where until 2004 he studied at the Department of Psychology. In parallel, Mark attended IT courses. He indicated his area of ​​interest as “C, C ++, Java, Visual Basic, VBscript, JavaScript, PHP and ASP” ^[8] . Zuckerberg repeatedly characterized himself as a hacker by vocation ^[9] . Even in college, Mark was noticed by Microsoft employees after he wrote the Synapse program, which allowed the computer to independently compose a sequence of music hits for its owner ^[10] .

Together with Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskowitz began to create a social network Facebook ^[11] . Financial assistance was provided to him by a student of Brazilian origin, Eduardo Saverin . His attempts to remove Saverin from managing the company in 2005 were the subject of legal proceedings.

In January 2009, he met Yuri Milner in Palo Alto ^[12] . On May 26, 2009, an agreement was signed under which DST bought a 1.96% stake in Facebook for $ 200 million ^[12] .

In 2010, Time magazine named Zuckerberg the man of the year ^[13] .

On December 8, 2010, Mark Zuckerberg announced that he had joined the Pledge of Giving , a philanthropic campaign by billionaires Warren Buffett and Bill Gates ^{[10] [14]} .

In the summer of 2016, he met with Pope Francis ^[15] .

Personal life

On May 19, 2012, Mark Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan . The couple held a celebration over Priscilla's PhD degree in medicine, however, when close friends and family members appeared in the backyard of the Palo Alto young house, they were told that they were at the wedding. As the representative of the couple said, the wedding was not dedicated to the IPO of Facebook, but rather to the end of Priscilla’s training ^[16] .

December 2, 2015 the couple had a daughter, Maxim Chan (Max) ^[17] .

On August 28, 2017, another daughter was born - August ^[18] .

Owning a 24% stake in Facebook, Inc. , Mark Zuckerberg became the youngest billionaire in history: in March 2010, Forbes magazine recognized him as one of the youngest billionaires on his list with a fortune of $ 4 billion dollars ^[19] . In the list of the richest Americans, published by Forbes in September 2010, Zuckerberg took 29th place with a fortune of $ 7 billion dollars ^[20] . The official salary of Mark Zuckerberg is only $ 1 ^[21] .

At the beginning of 2010, his fortune was estimated at $ 6.9 billion, and this year it increased by 245% - in the ranking of 400 richest people in the United States, published by Forbes magazine in 2011, Zuckerberg took 14th place with a fortune of $ 17 , 5 billion US dollars ^[22] .

March 10, 2013 M. Zuckerberg was in the Top 10 of the youngest billionaires, according to Forbes, he takes 2nd place in the ranking, his fortune totals $ 13.3 billion ^[23] . September 16, 2013 M. Zuckerberg with a personal fortune of $ 19 billion was again on the 20th place in the list, according to Forbes magazine, he took the same place in 2011, before the IPO Facebook in May 2012 ^[24] .

In October 2014, Zuckerberg spent $ 100 million to buy land on the northern coast of Kauai , where he decided to build a family estate of 280 hectares ^[25] . A little later, he bought two adjacent to his estate plots with a total value of $ 30 million. ^[26]

In December 2014, Mark took 14th place in the Top 15 Forbes with a fortune of 33.6 billion US dollars. In January 2018, he is 5th on the Forbes list and the youngest multibillionaire with a fortune of $ 70 billion.

According to Bloomberg , Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune declined by $ 8.1 billion over two days (March 19–20, 2018) due to the scandal surrounding the British analytical company Cambridge Analytica ^[27] .

Since 2010, Mark has been on the Forbes list of the most influential people in the world. In 2018, it took 13th place in this rating, although it had previously reached the 10th position ^[28] .

In December 2015, Zuckerberg announced that he would donate almost his entire fortune to charity . “ We will give 99% of our shares to Facebook - currently about $ 45 billion - throughout our lives to join many others to improve this world for the next generation, ” the billionaire wrote on his Facebook page ^[17] .

On September 21, 2016, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan announced the launch of a new project under the - Chan Zuckerberg Science . The project is aimed at combating various diseases, it will spend $ 3 billion over 10 years ^{[29] [30]} .

For a short time from September 30 to October 2, 2012, Zuckerberg met with Russian Prime Minister D. A. Medvedev , took part in two programs on Channel One and spoke to MSU students ^[31] . In addition, at the Facebook World Hack Developer Conference held at the same time in Moscow, Zuckerberg said ^[32] :

The greatest advantage for you [developers] in creating applications for Facebook, and not for local networks, is the ability to access almost 1 billion users.

Thus, Zuckerberg himself considers the maximum number of users on the Internet to be the main advantage of his social network over others ^[33] .

On October 2, 2012, Mark Zuckerberg gave an open lecture about himself and the history of Facebook to students of Moscow State University. Lomonosov. The number of people wishing to attend his lecture personally in the building of the Moscow State University Library was so great that invitation tickets were distributed among registered students according to the lottery principle, in exchange for an invitation ticket each participant received a branded T-shirt of their size.

The story of his creation of a social network formed the basis of Aaron Sorkin’s script and David Fincher’s film “ Social Network ” (2010). According to the conclusion of J. Hoberman , the tape contains a psychological analysis of social networks on the example of their most typical user - Zuckerberg ^[34] . The role of the future billionaire was played by actor Jesse Eisenberg . Zuckerberg was not related to the film project and distanced himself from him in an interview ^[35] .
On January 29, 2011, Mark Zuckerberg attended Saturday Night Live , where he first met Jesse Eisenberg and praised the film ^[36] .

• In the second episode of the 22nd season of the animated series The Simpsons , Zuckerberg voiced himself ^[37] .
• Mark Zuckerberg appeared in 4 episodes of the 21st season of the animated series South Park .

• As a deuteranope , Zuckerberg distinguishes between red and green much worse than blue - Facebook’s primary color ^[38] .
• In the Facebook database , Zuckerberg is listed as the 4th registered user (the first three are test ones) ^[39] .
• In January 2011, Mark’s Facebook page was hacked by an unknown hacker ^[40] .
• According to the men's magazine GQ , Mark is considered the most tastelessly dressed resident of Silicon Valley ^[10] .
• The head of the company, most popular among its employees, according to the version of the American recruiting site Glassdoor (2013), received an over 90% of the employees' approving votes during an anonymous survey ^[41] .
• As a dollar billionaire, Mark Zuckerberg drives a regular Volkswagen Golf GTI ^[42] .

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• Video Interview with Mark Zuckerberg in the TV Program 60 Minutes
• Video Interview with Mark Zuckerberg for Time Magazine
• Mark Zuckerberg - Forbes
• Evening Urgant. Visiting Ivan Mark Zuckerberg / Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (01.10.12)