Mark Zuckerberg: 15 facts about the founder of Meta, on his birthday

This May 14, mark zuckerbergfounder and CEO of the social network Facebook and the company Goalmain promoter of the new Digital environment known as metaverse, celebrates his 38th birthday.

From a very early age, Zuckerberg became one of the most influential people on the planet, which is why in TechBit We present 15 facts about the creator of one of the most recognizable social networks in the world and owner of others just as iconic. Instagram and WhatsApp.

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15 curious facts that you may not know about Mark Zuckerberg

1. Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984 in Dubs Fair, New York, United States.

2.- His father worked as a dentist and his mother as a psychiatrist. He was the only son in the family and had three sisters.

3.- Before graduating from school, a number of companies sought to hire him, but he chose to study at Harvard University, although he eventually dropped out of college to devote all his time to Facebook.

4.- In 2002, at the age of 18, he launched with his friend Adam D’Angelo, the appn Synapse Media Player. It was very successful due to its ability to play songs based on users’ preferences and previous selections.

5.- On February 4, 2004, he launched thefacebook.com, later renamed as Facebook in 2005, a directory in which his fellow Harvard students entered their own information and photos into a template he had devised.

6.- Zuckerberg created Facebook along with Dustin Moskowitz and Chris Hughes. Membership of the site was initially limited to students of said institution, before expanding to other institutions.

7.- In May 2005, Facebook received $12.7 million, his first major venture capital infusion.

8.- The following year, in 2006, Yahoo! offered to buy Facebook for a billion dollars, however, ZuckerbergHe turned down the offer because he said he wouldn’t know what to do with the money.

9.- The CEO of Meta has a relationship since 2005 with priscilla-chana student of Chinese origin who was studying medicine at Harvard.

Mark met his wife, Priscilla Chan, at a college party. Later, Chan would admit that he found Zuckerberg very boring at first.

10.- The couple contracted marriage on May 19, 2012, at a ceremony held at his home in Palo Alto, California.

11.- In 2007, Mark Zuckerberg He officially became the youngest self-made (not inheritance) millionaire in history, at 23 years old.

12.- Zuckerberg appeared in the second episode of the twenty-second season of The Simpson. The episode is called Loan-a-Lisa and was broadcast on October 3, 2010 in the United States.

13.- The CEO of Goal He was recognized as “Person of the Year” in 2010, by Time magazine.

14- mark zuckerberg He is a polyglot, as he speaks six languages, being able to read, write and communicate without any problem in French, Hebrew, Latin, ancient Greek, English and Mandarin Chinese. The latter learned it to be able to communicate with the family of his wife.

15.- On December 6, 2015, Zuckerberg and his wife announced that they would leave 99% of their shares in Facebook during his lifetime.

“We will give 99% of our shares – currently valued at about 45,000 million dollars – throughout our lives,” said the young tycoon of Internet.

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