One of the youngest billionaire and philanthropist, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg gained popularity across the globe through his giant social networking website – Facebook. With a clear sense of vision in his mind, he made it to the top and now is valued at over $68 billion. Let’s have an insight into the life of the genius developer in this Infographic. Here you can find the hard work that the co-founder of Facebook has been doing from the beginning to present the most-successful platform to the world.
Infographic Content:
Mark’s Childhood:
- Birth – May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York
- The only son of a well-educated family
[Edward Zuckerberg – Dentist
Karen Zuckerberg- Psychiatrist]
- Discovered his passion for “Star Wars” movie
- Interested in programming in elementary school
- At 10, he got his first PC Quantex 486DX on the Intel 486
- His father taught Atari BASIC Programming
- At 12, he used Atari BASIC to create a messenger – ZuckNet
- Computer tutor David Newman taught him some private lessons
- Joined Phillips Exeter Academy, an exclusive preparatory school in New Hampshire
- Becomes the captain of the school’s team
- Excels in fencing and literature, earns a diploma in classics
- He writes an artificial intelligent media player ‘Synapse’ for MP3-playlists
- He rejects the offer of $1 million by Microsoft for his music software
“Find that Thing you are Super Passionate About”
Life at Harvard:
In 2002, Zuckerberg entered Harvard University
- Built a program ‘CourseMatch’ to help students choose their subjects
- In 2003, he hacked the database of Harvard to create a ‘FaceMash,’ a fun program for voting who is hotter
- Started working on Harvard Connection with Divya Narendra and Winklevoss twins which he dropped later
- On 2004, Mark registered the domain name ‘theFacebook.com’ which functioned only within Harvard
- Got new co-founder Eduardo Saverin who invested $10,000 for 30% of theFacebook
- Dropped out of Harvard to focus solely on theFacebook
- theFacebook had 1 million users at the end of 2004
“The Biggest Risk is Not Taking Any Risk”
Devotion to his Beloved Facebook
- Headed towards Silicon Valley
- Removed the word “the” and bought the new domain “Facebook.com” in 2005
- In 2005, Zuckerberg’s enterprise received a massive investment of $12.7 million from Accel Partners
- Rejected the offer of $75 million from MTV
- In 2006, the Harvard Connection creators claimed that Zuckerberg stole their idea and later Zuckerberg apologized and made an initial settlement of $65 million.
- In 2009, Ben Mezrich wrote a book about the founding of Facebook – ‘The Accidental Billionaires’
- Later in 2010, it was adopted by Columbia Pictures for the film ‘The Social Network’
- In 2012, he acquired photo-sharing app – Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock
- Facebook’s active monthly users crossed 1 billion in October 2012
- In Feb 2014, he acquired mobile messaging app – Whatsapp for $16 billion
- Zuckerberg purchased virtual reality company, Oculus VR for $2 billion
- In April 2018, he testified before Congress after it revealed that Facebook shared data with Cambridge Analytica
- Faced another year of criticism for fake news and abuse on the platform
- CEO Mark Zuckerberg made tackling social issues as his priority in 2019
“People Don’t Care about what you Say, They Care about What you build”
Philanthropist & A Notable Achiever
- Time magazine named Mark Zuckerberg as the ‘Person of the Year’ in 2010
- In 2010, he donated $100 million to save the deteriorating Newark Public Schools system in New Jersey
- Later in December 2010, he signed the “Giving Pledge” that promises to donate at least 50% of his wealth to charity
- Facebook entered the Fortune 500 list in May 2013
- On December 2015, he pledged to donate 99% of the Facebook stock to advance human potential over the lifetime
- Zuckerberg received an honorary degree from Harvard in 2017
- On 2017, Facebook ranked 5th on the Forbes list of billionaires
- Now he is ranked as the 8th richest person in the world with a net worth of $68 billion
“Give everyone the power to share anything with anyone.”
