Mark Zuckerberg biography
Every Facebook users must have read about Mark Zuckerberg biography with the international booming of Facebook. But if somehow you have not, then you must read this one so you don’t left behind.
Mark Zuckerberg biography
Zuckerberg was born as Mark Elliot Zuckerberg on May 14, 1984 to Edward and Karen Zuckerberg. His father is a dentist and his mother is a psychiatrist. He currently holds the second youngest billionaire, beaten only by one month by his own Facebook co-founder, Dustin Moskovitz. He attended Ardsley High School and transferred to Phillips Exeter Academy after a while. He was really a bright student and won prizes in science, math, and physics as well as excelled in several languages such as Hebrew, Latin, French, and ancient Greek. Breaking the stereotype of nerd and popular, he also did well in sports as the captain of fencing team.
He entered Harvard and soon was known as programming prodigy. He studied computer science and psychology and belonged to Alpha Epsilon Pi Jewish fraternity. He had wrote many programs for his campus fellow students such as CourseMatch which allowed users to form study groups based on the class selection they chose and Facemash which allowed students to select best looking photos.
Soon, he wrote Facebook and launched it on February 4, 2004 after he heard that there were requests from Harvard students that they wanted an internal site where they can found photos and contact details. The site became popular and Zuckerberg spread its network to also enlist students from Dartmouth, New York University, Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Penn, and Yale. With the success of Facebook afterwards, he moved to Palo Alto, California with his friends including Moskovitz.
Zuckerberg has been named as the most influential people of the information age by Vanity Fair in 2010. A movie about him was made titled Social Network in 2010 based on a biography of him titled the same. The movie won Golden Globe for the best picture in 2011. Zuckerberg is not much known for his philanthropy activity, but he signed the “Giving Pledge” of Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. Mark Zuckerberg is still young and Mark Zuckerberg biography definitely does not end here.
