Who is Mark Zuckerberg ?

Later, Mark Zuckerberg managed to attract rich investors who helped him expand the social network globally. Sean Parker, the iconic figure of the American Internet and the creator of the sharing service Napster, Peter Thiel, the co-founder of the payment system PayPal who contributed $500 thousand in Facebook, and Reid Hoffman, the creator of the first business social network “Linkedin” were among the hacker’s helpmates.

In 2005, Mark Zuckerberg purchased the domain Facebook.com for $200 thousand. At that moment, there were more than 5 million of users in the social network, and their number was growing.

Facebook was the 7th among the most popular American sites. It drew the attention of IT business sharks who suggested Mark Zuckerberg sell his project. Still, the offers brought no results – Mark refused to sell Facebook and continued to develop the network at record-breaking speed.

In 2007, Mark Zuckerberg’s hour of triumph happened: Microsoft estimated the project at $15 billion and bought 1.6% of the company’s stock for $240 million. In 2008, the programmer opened the company’s international main office in Dublin, and in 2009, he announced about the first benefit. Since that moment, the social network Facebook opened the platform codes for everybody who would like to create new applications for the project.

Thanks to this measure, approximately 140 apps are being uploaded to the site every day.

In 2015, Facebook became the second most frequently visited site in the world, and Mark Zuckerberg was named the youngest dollar billionaire with the official $1 wage. The programmer won the titles of the most influential person in the world and the super-successful businessman younger than 40.

The red-headed and not so tall (1.66m) billionaire Mark Zuckerberg’s personal life does not correspond to conventional ideas about the richest person in the world.

He leads a close life, never makes display of his wealth, and never throws cash around.

. It was the happiest moment in the couple’s life since they had been dreaming about a child.

In 2012, Mark married his old friend Priscilla Chan whom he had met in 2002 at Harvard students’ party. At the end of 2015, their daughter Max was born.

Before 2015, the billionaire lived in rented houses and did not spend his money on his own dwelling.

learned about his wife’s pregnancy, Mark Zuckerberg created a cozy family home to provide his long-awaited first-born with comfort.

The house cost $7 million. It is situated in the historic downtown of Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, 10-minute drive from the Facebook office in Menlo Park.

In 2016, the group “OurMine” members announced they had hacked the billionaire’s Twitter and Instagram accounts and disclosed the password the Facebook founder used. If the hackers’ words were true, Mark Zuckerberg’s password was simple even in 2012: “dadada.”

The accounts’ owner was given back the access, and the traces of hacking were deleted.

In May 2017, the billionaire got the diploma and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in Harvard. The Facebook founder’s parents and wife were present at the ceremony.

In June 2017, Mark Zuckerberg announced the new record: the number of Facebook accounts reached 2 billion.

According to Forbes, in 2017, 33-year-old Mark Zuckerberg’s wealth equaled $69.5 billion. It means he became richer than Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

The young billionaire does not consider himself a person obsessed with wealth accumulation. He is the member of dozens of charity organizations and the group “The Giving Pledge” whose members promise to donate a half of their wealth.

At the end of 2015, Mark Zuckerberg announced he was going to donate 99% of his Facebook stock and to develop the sphere of children’s personalized teaching all over the world, public health care service enhancement, and communication means modernization.

“Calm down. Breath. We hear you.” This is the title of Mark’s blog post that he created in 2006 in response to users’ worries about the new news feed organization on Facebook.

“People just submitted it [their personal data]. I don’t know why. They trust me.” This early quote is ascribed to 19-year-old Zuckerberg who just launched his social network

Mark is wondering why strangers leave their e-mails and addresses, photos, etc. in the open access.

“When I went to college, I did many stupid things, and I don’t want to be sorry for them. Some are true, others are not. You have to remember, I was 19 years old when I started Facebook.

Many things changed. We grew from the dormitory project to the net used by 500 million users.” It is actually Zuckerberg’s answer to the accusations related to the previous quote.