Biography
Mark Zuckerberg is an enterprising businessman whose biography causes burning interest among young people and the older generation. His name is associated with the creation of the world's largest social network Facebook, the number of users of which exceeds 2 billion. Prominent polyglot and inventive programmer has become the best in many directions. Zuckerberg is a dollar billionaire with official earnings of $ 1.Childhood and youth
Mark Eliot Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984 in the suburbs of New York White Plains in the Jewish intelligent family of physicians. According to the sign of the Zodiac Mark - Taurus. Edward's parents and Karen Zuckerberg and today are under medical practice: father - in the field of dentistry, and mother - psychiatry. The family of the youngest billionaire on the planet has many children, four children rose in it: Mark Eliot, Elder Sister Randy and Two Junior, Ariel and Donna.
Founder Facebook was brought up in religious strictness, but, becoming adult, stated that he was an atheist and did not adhere to the traditions of Judaism.
The interest in computer programming woke up at the boy at 10 years old, when the father gave him a PC, which demonstrated the son of elementary and basic elements of the ATARI BASIC programming language. In 1996, the 12-year-old Mark Zuckerberg created the first full-fledged software product called ZuckNet, which allowed us to communicate on the local network to family members.
At the end of the elementary school, Zuckerberg entered the Prestigious Pension Pension Phillips Exeter Academy. For the graduation work, the guy has created a program for recognizing the music tastes of the Internet users - SynaPSE, which Microsoft's $ 2 million has later wanted to buy out for $ 2 million. The guy refused from remuneration, and from the proposed cooperation, stating that "inspiration is not for sale."
In 2002, unexpectedly for all Mark Zuckerberg entered Harvard at the Faculty of Psychology. The decision was influenced by Mom. But simultaneously with psychology, he was improved in programming, for which he visited additional courses on computer science, continuing to create its own programs.
On the 2nd year of the university, he created a program for Coursematch students, thanks to which students shared their experiences with each other on the disciplines studied. The second project brand Zuckerberg became Facemash, allowed students to vote for the photos of Harvard students like.
To create this project, the hacker hacked the university database, for which he almost flew out of the university: the students complained to use personal photos without permission. Despite the prohibition of Facemash's further development, the programmer did not leave the venture to make Harvard more open, so invented an alternative project with pellets custom albums.
The idea of the social network was posting users on their pages of photographs and information - from scientific interests to gastronomic addictions, due to which, in the shortest possible time, groups of interests appeared in the network expanding every day.
Soon the creator of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg realized that there was a considerable investment for the development of the project. Therefore, he, taking an example from Bill Gates, threw Harvard, and all the money deferedhed by his parents ($ 85 thousand) invested in the brainchild. In the summer of 2004, the programmer moved to Palo Alto and registered his project as a legal entity, becoming the Director General of Facebook.
Star Hour Mark Zuckerberg has arrived in 2007, when Microsoft appreciated a $ 15 billion project, acquiring a 1.6% stake in a company for $ 240 million. In 2008, the programmer opened the company's international headquarters in Dublin, and in 2009 publicly announced the first profit. From this point on, Facebook has opened the platform codes for everyone to create new applications for the project, thanks to the site today, about 140 new appelts are loaded every day.
In 2015, Facebook became the second attendance by the site in the world, and Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest dollar billionaire. The programmer won the titles of an influential person on the planet and the soupeless businessman under 40 years. In May 2017, the billionaire received a diploma and honor degree of doctor of Harvard's jurisprudence. Years later, Mark Zuckerberg returned to the university to pronounce a graduate speech and receive a document on higher education.
The activity of Mark Zuckerberg attracts the attention of various researchers. The fenomy of the success of the principal project of the programmer is still of interest among users. Edition Business Insider presented to the court of readers a selection of famous quotes of an entrepreneur called "so told Zuckerberg". Mark himself likes to repeat the winned phrase Albert Einstein:
"Everyone should be simplified until it is possible, but no more."The history of the creation of a popular project did not bypassed the cinematographers. David Fincher took off the full-length film "Social Network", where Jesse Eisenberg played the main character. Zuckerberg negatively responded about the picture, the plot of which he called the implausible.
Personal life
The personal life of the red-haired and low (height 171 cm) of the billionaire brand Zuckerberg does not correspond to the ideas about the richest man on the planet. He leads a secretive lifestyle, does not silence wealth and does not squeak money.
He has a modest car - Volkswagen Golf GTI, which Mark leads himself. As casual clothes, the programmer prefers jeans and gray t-shirts. Such a commitment to minimalism allows the entrepreneur more time and attention to pay the things that are interesting to him.
In 2012, Mark married a long-standing girlfriend Priscilla Chan, who met in 2002 at the Harvard Student Party. Chinese woman by nationality, she was distinguished by perseverance in achieving the goal - to embody the American dream of his parents and get a decent education in the United States. For the sake of admission to the prestigious university, the girl even took up the big tennis, although he never differed a burden for sports.
Young people have retained relationships even after their life paths have separated. Priscilla continued his studies, while Mark settled in the capital of the silicon valley.
The first years after the wedding, the newlyweds were unsuccessfully tried to become parents: Priscilla survived 3 miscarriages. But at the end of 2015, the pair was born daughter Max, which became a happiest moment in the life of spouses who dreamed of a child. Two years later, the spouse gave the second daughter to the second daughter, which Augustus called.
Until 2015, the Multimilliardder lived exclusively in removable dwellings, not to-up on his own. Having learned about the pregnancy of my wife, Mark Zuckerberg built a cozy family nest for the comfortable life of the long-awaited firstborn. The dwelling cost Zuckerberg at $ 7 million, and his purchase programmer made himself independently without resorting to the services of the agent.
Founder House Facebook is located in the historic center of Silicon Valley - Palo Alto, a 10-minute drive from Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park. There is no extra servants in the billionaire mansion, the butler's function performs the electronic program equipped with the voice of Morgan Fremen. Interestingly, the entrepreneur diligently hides his private life, so the neighboring mansions around his house.
Mark Zuckerberg now
The state of the brand Zuckerberg for 2017, according to Forbes, was $ 69.5 billion, which made it the richer founders of Google Sergey Brin and Larry Page. But a year later, this figure has decreased and amounted to $ 50.5 billion. Facebook's fall in the fall in the cost of Facebook shares influenced the scandal associated with the Cambridge Analytica analytical center, which secretly collected private information from the accounts of users of the social network.In 2019, it became known that for users of the Facebook network, Zuckerberg is preparing to launch Libra cryptocurrency, which will appear in the 2020th. It is assumed that the owners of mobile devices will be able to pay it for goods and services that are purchased over the Internet.
Interestingly, a similar electronic product - cryptocurrency GRAM - already in the fall is going to run on the site "Telegram" Pavel Durov. Now there is testing the necessary programs. Experts suggest that the Russian in the case of time advance will be an advantage in market development.
Quotes
- "Calm down. Breathe. We hear you. " So Mark entitled a blog post, written in 2006 in response to the growing concern of users about the new organization of the news feed on Facebook.
- "I do not understand why they trust me." This is an early quotation that a number of US publications are attributed to 19-year-old Zuckerberg, which only launched its social network. Mark is surprised why unfamiliar people with such ease leave the electronic and physical addresses in open access, and so on.
- "When I studied in college, I made a lot of stupid and do not want to apologize for them. Some accusations are true, some - no. I started doing this when I was 19, and during this time a lot has changed. We left the creation of a service in a hostel to the network that 500 million people use. " This is actually the Tsuckerberg response to the accusations associated with the previous quote.
- "Games, music, films, TV, news, online purchases - all these models in 5 years will be completely rethought. There will be really successful business ideas. It seems to us that we must play a role in this reform and benefit, proportional to what we will invest in this "- Zuckerberg on Facebook's impact on other industry, while performing after the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco in 2010.
- "Everything is simple: we do not create services to make money. We earn money to create the best services. "