Mark Zuckerberg’s father offered him to own a McDonald’s, earning 6 figures a year, but he decided to study at Harvard

Facebook has a history of about 2 decades, and in the beginning, everything was very different. When mark zuckerbergnow CEO of Meta, launched the website at the age of 19 and was accused of plagiarism by 3 students from Harvard University (United States).

Since Zuckerberg won that lawsuit in 2011 offering these students 65 million euros, the billionaire has seen his fortune grow almost steadily, becoming one of the richest people in the world.

Although Zuckerberg’s life could have changed before his time at university, since Edward, his father, offered him an alternative to studies: owning a McDonald’s franchise.

“My dad, quite amusingly, just before each of us went to college, offered us the choice of going to college or investing in a franchise and running it,” Randi Zuckerberg, Mark’s sister, said in an interview with 2019 to CNN.

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The reality is that, at that time, that offer to manage a McDonald’s was not bad. To open an establishment, according to the same website of the company, they need between $1,013,000 and $2,185,000a capital that not everyone has.

Thus, Mark rejected a golden opportunity, although he looked further and decided to found his own business, with the aim of connecting the entire world.

If you owned a fast food restaurant, according to a report from the CNBC and Franchise Business Review, would have earned about $90,000 annually. Bloomberg puts those earnings above $100,000.

In his interview with the CNNRandi explained that young people are being pressured to create multi-million dollar companies without taking into account the time needed to plan the future of a company of such size.

“I think Facebook builds things with great intentions, and because of obligations to shareholders, they didn’t have time to sit down and think, ‘Wait, these tools that we’re building, what could happen to them?'” he said.

In any case, the way of seeing the life of his parents and the education offered to all his siblings, has caused Mark to return to the family on different occasions, even in meetings with national leaders.

Such was the case with her meeting with then-President Obama, which she left early to attend her sister’s Broadway debut. Although Mark has always followed his path without putting his family in the public eye of the hurricane.

“When you have a family that big, you have all your peers in your family unit,” Randi said. “Maybe after spending his entire childhood growing up with 3 sisters, it’s like he’s like, ‘I have to connect with other people.’