Who is Mark Zuckerberg ?

However, the young talent rejected the offer of the IT-giants and then politely rejected their invitation to cooperate. Just like that, Mark Zuckerberg refused from dozens, maybe even hundreds of thousands of dollars, and work at one of the top IT-corporations.

Zuckerberg has signed the "Giving Pledge" commitment, promising to donate at least 50% of his wealth over the course of his lifetime.

Microsoft sought to acquire the company and its founders, but instead of working for the Seattle tech giant, Zuckerberg and co-creator Adam D’Angelo -- who went on to found Quora -- got a patent for the tech and went to college instead.

Zuckerberg was close friends with Sean Parker, the co-founder of Napster, who also became a founding president of Facebook.

Soon Mark Zuckerberg studied at the Academy of Phillips Exeter, an exclusive preparatory school in New Hampshire. He showed good results there in science and literature, receiving a degree in classics.

Early on, many companies like Yahoo! and MTV Networks approached Zuckerberg in hopes of advertising on Facebook, but Zuckerberg turned them down, not wanting to sell out.

When Zuckerberg was 12, he created an instant messaging program that he called ZuckNet so his dentist father could know when patients arrived.

In 2014, Zuckerberg donated $25 million to combat the ebola virus epidemic in West Africa.

He also showed a great talent in fencing and even became the school captain of the fencing team. Yet Mark Zuckerberg stayed fascinated by coding and wanted to work on the development of new software.

In 2006, the Harvard Connection team sued Zuckerberg, claiming he stole their concept and requesting compensation of their business losses. While Zuckerberg asserted that the ideas were completely different, incriminating messages revealed that Zuckerberg may have intentionally ripped off intellectual property from the Harvard Connection.

Zuckerberg's marriage to longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan was quite the surprise for friends and family--guests were told they were being invited over to celebrate Chan's medical school graduation, but in reality they ended up attending the pair's wedding.

One of his favorite books is The Aeneid, and one of his favorite TV shows is The West Wing, which was created by Aaron Sorkin, the man who also wrote the movie based on the creation of Facebook, The Social Network.

In 2002, after graduating Phillips Exeter, Zuckerberg entered Harvard University.

Zuckerberg wasn't the only one irritated with the Winklevoss twins. Former Harvard President Larry Summers had no love for the pair either, saying, "One of the things you learn as a college president is that if an undergraduate is wearing a tie and jacket on Thursday afternoon at three o'clock, there are two possibilities. One is that they're looking for a job and have an interview; the other is that they are an asshole. This was the latter case."

By his second year in the Ivy League, he had gained a reputation as a software developer on campus.

Similar to Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg has a $1 annual salary as CEO of Facebook.

Even though today he has a beautifully appointed home that is powered by an AI butler with Morgan Freeman’s voice, in an interview with The New Yorker in 2010, he said that he found all of his apartments on Craigslist.

Zuckerberg was not a fan of The Social Network, arguing that many of the film's details were inaccurate.

It was then when he wrote a program CourseMatch, which helped students choose their subjects on the basis of lists of courses from other users.

Zuckerberg was Time magazine's "Person of the Year" in 2010 and in 2013, Facebook made the Fortune 500 list for the first time--making Zuckerberg, at the age of 28, the youngest CEO on the list.

Zuckerberg notes that the film took huge liberties with some events, while staying oddly true to others. He observed that while he never had any interest in joining the finals clubs (an element that plays a major role in the film), every shirt and fleece depicted in the movie was an actual piece of clothing that he has owned.

Facebook’s logo is blue because Zuckerberg has red-green color blindness.

He first learned to code from a C++ for Dummies book.

Zuckerberg is currently #10 on Forbe's list of the 400 richest Americans.

The Social Network is based off of the book, The Accidental Billionaires, by Ben Mezrich. The book has been known to deviate quite a bit from actual events, as even the book's publicist referred to it as "big juicy fun" rather than "reportage."