Mark Zuckerberg is an American entrepreneur and software developer that is best known as the CEO and founder of Facebook. Facebook is the largest social network service with more than 600 million users worldwide. Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook along with his classmates Eduardo Saverin, Chris Huges and Dustin Moskovitz in 2004 while studying at Harvard. Zuckerberg was born in New York in 1984 and has attended Ardsley High School before joining Harvard University in September 2002.
Whilst being a college sophomore, Zuckerberg originally wrote Facesmash; a photo comparing website that served as the predecessor to Facebook. Following the site’s overnight success, he developed Facebook and it was officially launched on February 4, 2004. Facebook became a huge success; with more than 130 million unique visitors monthly and was placed in the Top 100 Classic Websites by PC World Magazine in 2007. Zuckerberg was also named Person of the Year by Time Magazine in 2010.
Zuckerberg currently serves as President and CEO of Facebook, holding 24% of the company’s shares. Residing in Dobbs Ferry, New York, Zuckerberg’s net worth is estimated at $12.5 billion. Zuckerberg also founded the Start-up: Education foundation and in December 2010 he announced that he had become a signatory of The Giving Pledge.
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