15 Amazing Facts About Mark Zuckerberg- The Founder of Facebook

Here are some interesting facts about Mark Zuckerberg and his struggles to become what he is today.

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1. He was born on 14th May, 1984. He is currently 36 years old.
2. His mother is Karen Zuckerberg, a psychiatrist, and his father is Edward Zuckerberg, a dentist.
3. Zuckerberg started using computers and writing software in middle school.
4. His father taught him Atari BASIC Programming in the 1990s, and later hired David Newman, a software engineer, to tutor him privately.
5. He developed a program ''ZuckNet'' that allowed all the computer between the house and his father's dental office to communicate with each other.
6. In his sophomore year, he wrote a program that allowed users to make class selection decisions based on the choices of other students and also to help them form study groups.
7. A short time later he created a different program he initially called ''FaceMash'' that let students select the best looking person from a choice of photos.
8. The site went up over a weekend , but by the Monday morning, the college shut it down because its popularity had overwhelmed one of  Harvard's network switches and prevented students from accessing the internet.
9. In January 2004, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new website. On 4th February 2004, Zuckerberg launched '' Facebook'' originally located at thefacebook.com.
10. Zuckerberg owns 29.3 percent of Facebook's class-A shares.
11. He achieved the title of billionaire at the age of 24 in 2008 and also the distinction of world's youngest billionaire.
12. He is the world's 4th richest man.
13. He has a net worth of $89.2 Billion as of 2020.
14. He is colorblind and chose the color Blue for Facebook because of his disability to see other common colors like Green and Red.
15. His wife is Priscilla Chan and they have been married since 2012. The couple met in line for the bathroom at a college frat party in 2003.

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