Mark Zuckerberg: His Wealth, Business and Family

Mark Zuckerberg is the 6th richest person in the world and is also known as the founder of Facebook which has now changed its name to Meta. Despite being the richest person in the world, Mark Zuckerberg is known as a simple person in terms of how to dress and live everyday life.

Zuckerberg must have gone through a lot of tough times to get to where he is today. Now, let's take a look at Zuckerberg's life journey and how he managed to become the richest person alive despite dropping out of college once.

Family's background

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, better known as Mark Zuckerberg, was born the son of a dentist and psychiatrist. Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984 in White Plains, New York, USA. Mark Zuckerberg is the second of four children. The three brothers were named Randy, Donna and Ariel, respectively.

Mark Zuckerberg's childhood was spent with his family in the village of Dobbs Ferry. In the social environment where he lives, the Mark Zuckerberg family is known as an educated and very wealthy family. Mark also grew up in a devout Jewish family.

Loved programming since childhood

Mark Zuckerberg began to like the world of programming since childhood, when he was 8 years old to be exact, or around the 1990s. Mark loved fiddling with the computer his father had bought him. I also didn't forget to teach Mark ATARI BASIC programming when he was 11 years old. It was from here that he finally began to learn how to write various computer programs.

Seeing Mark's talent and interest in programming grow and develop, his father finally called a tutor named David Newman, a software engineer, to teach him the world of programming once a week at home.

Around the age of 12-13, Mark was able to create a messaging program using ATARI BASIC, which his father taught him. The program was called Zucknet and was eventually used by his father to carry out his duties at the dental clinic. The Zucknet program is used to notify doctors when new patients arrive. Zuckerberg is also used by the Zuckerberg family to communicate with each other.

In addition to the Zucknet program, Mark and his colleagues also developed Plugin for the Winamp MP3 player during high school at Phillips Exeter Academy. Plugin This was created to help someone save their many favorite songs and create their own playlist. Mark also admitted that he often played computer games with his friends for fun.

Educational Journey

For his education, Mark Zuckerberg attended Phillips Exeter Academy, one of the leading schools in New York. At this school Mark became one of the best students in several subjects such as mathematics, astronomy, literature and physics.

Mark also claims to be fluent in French, Latin, Hebrew, and Ancient Greek. During high school, Mark also intern at Intelligent Media Group. Mark succeeded in developing music software which was later named Synapse Media Player.

The software was later uploaded to Slashdot and rated 3 out of 5 by PC Magazine, a technology magazine.

Music software has also successfully acquired a number of companies, including tech giants such as AOL and Microsoft. In fact, when Mark Zuckerberg got a job offer unfortunately, he turned down the opportunity. After graduating from high school around 2002, Mark decided to enroll in college and pursue a bachelor's degree at Harvard University, majoring in psychology and computer science.

As a student, he is still exporting the programming world. His software development journey did not stop there. It was proven by Mark finally creating a program called CourseMatch. This is a program that allows students to choose a class based on other students' course choices. This program can also be used for group work.

Giant Social Media Platform Development : Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg is widely known as the founder of Facebook. First, Mark was invited to make a program with his colleagues. However, Mark finally turned it down because he wanted to focus on working on his personal program, The Facebook.

Around 2004 when Facebook was first founded, Facebook's address was facebook.com. The idea for this program was based on a high school student list containing photos and addresses, similar to a memory book. With the help of his colleagues, Mark works at Facebook.

Facebook users can create their own profiles, upload photos, and communicate with others. The Facebook site was created and operated by the Harvard campus dormitories until 2004. Initially, the Facebook site was only used by Harvard students, but is now used by other Ivy League colleges.

After Facebook appeared everywhere, Mark finally decided to focus on his website and quit college. He works exclusively for The Facebook from the Palo Alto Facebook office.

There Mark met Peter Thiel as an early investor. Access to the campus area is still limited, but Facebook has attracted many investors besides Peter, including Accel Partners.

The existence of so many investors made the use of The Facebook more widespread. Even in 2005, The Facebook users have reached five.five million. The success of The Facebook had made several companies like Yahoo interested in acquiring it.

However, once again, Mark refused and decided to run The Facebook alone. He even started to create patterns of features on The Facebook itself. Finally, in 2004, The Facebook which changed its name as Facebook was crowned the largest public media in the world.

In 2012, Facebook was listed on the stock exchange using the code FB. The value of the company is growing and finally Facebook's IPO is crowned the highest IPO of all time. Facebook is also finally crowned as the richest company in the United States.

Although many cases often appear, for example, for example the data leak in 2018, did not make Facebook recede. In fact, the number of users is increasing. From the success of Facebook, it is no wonder that Mark was finally dubbed the 6th richest person in the world.

According to Forbes, Mark Zuckerberg's net worth is approximately $103 billion. Currently, Mark is happy with his wife & two children. Even though at first dropped out In college, Mark has now graduated with an honors degree based on Harvard. In 2021, Facebook officially changed its name to Meta.

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