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Mark Zuckerberg is an American entrepreneur and computer programmer who co-founded the social networking site Facebook.

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Mark Zuckerberg is an American entrepreneur and computer programmer who co-founded the social networking site Facebook. He is the current CEO and chairman of Facebook. He became the world’s youngest billionaire in 2008 when he was 24 years old.

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EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION

  • Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York and was brought up in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
  • Zuckerberg was raised in Reform Judaism by his parents Edward and Karen Zuckerberg.
  • His father is a dentist and his mother is a psychiatrist.
  • He was the second of four children.
  • He has three sisters: Randi, Donna, and Arielle.
  • Zuckerberg excelled in high school. He first attended Ardsley High School, then transferred to Phillips Exeter Academy, a private preparatory school in New Hampshire, after two years.

FIRST PROGRAMS

  • Zuckerberg became interested in computers and began writing software at an early age.
  • His father taught him Atari BASIC programming which he used to create a messaging program when he was 13 years old. The program was called Zucknet.
  • Zucknet allowed the computers in his house and his father’s dental office to communicate via Ping, which was the prototype of AOL’s Instant Messenger.
  • He also wrote computer games, like a version of Monopoly for computers.
  • Zuckerberg went on to program a music player during his senior year at Phillips Exeter Academy. It was called Synapse Media Player and used artificial intelligence to learn about a user’s listening patterns and recommend other music.
  • Synapse received extremely positive reviews after Zuckerberg posted it online on AOL.
  • Although Microsoft and AOL offered to buy Synapse for $1 million and hire Mark Zuckerberg as a software developer, Zuckerberg turned down the offer.
  • He also became a fencing captain at the academy and earned a diploma in classic literature.
  • In 2002, he enrolled at Harvard University, where he studied computer science and psychology.

TIME AT HARVARD

  • By the time he was at Harvard University, Zuckerberg had already gained a reputation for being a skilled programmer.
  • In his sophomore year at Harvard, he developed a program which helped students decide which classes to take based on other students’ choices. The program was called CourseMatch.
  • Shortly after, he wrote a program that allowed students to select the best-looking person from a batch of photos. The program was called FaceMash.
  • FaceMash gained so much popularity that it crashed the servers of Harvard’s network, causing students to have problems connecting to the internet.
  • Some students, especially women, also complained that their photos were being used in the program without their permission and that the program was offensive.
  • Zuckerberg then issued a public apology and Harvard put him on probationary status.

FACEBOOK

  • Facebook is now the most used and known social networking website in the world.
  • It was developed by Zuckerberg, with the help of his roommates, when he was still a student at Harvard in 2004.
  • It was first called The Facebook and was meant to be a directory of students at Harvard.
  • Before he founded The Facebook, Zuckerberg worked on a similar idea with Harvard senior students Divya Narendra, Cameron Winklevoss, and Tyler Winklevoss.
  • Their idea was to create a social networking site called Harvard Connection, which was basically a dating website created from the information from Harvard’s student networks.
  • Zuckerberg soon dropped out of the project to build his own idea, which his friends helped create.
  • His friends were Eduardo Saverin and Dustin Moskovitz, both economics majors, Andrew McCollum, a computer science student, and Chris Hughes, a literature and history student.
  • The Facebook was a website that allowed users to create a profile, communicate with other users, and upload photos on their pages.
  • They launched the website on February 2004. They ran the site out of a dorm room at Harvard University until June 2004.
  • By the end of 2004, 1 million users had already signed up on The Facebook.
  • They renamed it “Facebook” in 2005 and relocated to an office in Palo Alto, California.
  • That same year, venture capital firm Accel Partners invested $12.7 million into the enterprise.
  • From being just a social directory used at Harvard, Zuckerberg went on to widen the scope of the website to other colleges, universities, and high schools.
  • By December 2005, Facebook had approximately 5.5 million users.

LEGAL ISSUES

  • In 2006, the founders of Harvard Connection sued Zuckerberg, claiming that he stole their idea.
  • Zuckerberg denied the claims and a settlement of $65 million was reached between the two parties.

NET WORTH AND PERSONAL LIFE

  • Since its founding in 2005, Facebook has grown to be the largest and most widely used social networking site in the world.
  • In 2007, he became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire at 23 years old.
  • In 2012, Zuckerberg’s net worth was estimated at more than $19 billion. As of February 2019, his net worth is estimated to be nearly $82 billion.
  • Zuckerberg met Priscilla Chan, a medical student, during his sophomore year at Harvard. They were married on May 19, 2012 and now have two children: Maxima (born December 1, 2015) and August (born August 28, 2017).

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Complete List Of Included Worksheets

  • Mark Zuckerberg Facts
  • Zoom into Zuckerberg
  • Fact or Fake News?
  • Zuckerberg Crossword
  • Complete the Timeline
  • Co-Founders: Where Are They Now?
  • Self-Made Billionaires
  • Social Media Match
  • My Facebook Page
  • My Website Idea
  • Mark’s Mind Map

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