Birth Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
May 14, 1984 (age 27)
White Plains, New York, U.S.
Residence Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Ethnicity Jewish
Alma mater Phillips Exeter Academy
Harvard University
Occupation CEO/President of Facebook
(24% shareholder in 2010)
Known for Co-founding Facebook in 2004; becoming . world's youngest billionaire as of 2008
Net worth US$17.5 billion (2011)
Awards TIME Person of the Year 2010
He is an American Computer Programmer and Internet Entrepreneur. He is Chief Executive and President of an official site called Facebook. In May 2011, it was reported that Zuckerberg had bought a five bedroom house in Palo Alto for $7 million.
Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room on February 4, 2004. an earlier inspiration for Facebook may have come from Phillips Exeter Academy, the prep school from which Zuckerberg graduated in 2002. It published its own student directory, “The Photo Address Book,” which students referred to as “The Facebook. I guess we could ... If you look at how much of our page is taken up with ads compared to the average search query. The average for us is a little less than 10 percent of the pages and the average for search is about 20 percent taken up with ads ... That’s the simplest thing we could do. But we aren’t like that. We make enough money. Right, I mean, we are keeping things running; we are growing at the rate we want to.
MOVIE
A movie based on Zuckerberg and the founding years of Facebook, called The Social Network was released on October 1, 2010, and stars Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg. "I wanted to say to Mark Zuckerberg tonight, if you're watching, Rooney Mara's character makes a prediction at the beginning of the movie. She was wrong. You turned out to be a great entrepreneur, a visionary, and an incredible altruist." On January 29, 2011, Zuckerberg made a surprise guest appearance on Saturday Night Live, which was being hosted by Jesse Eisenberg. They both said it was the first time they ever met.
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