Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg Basic Information

Stage Name:	Mark Zuckerberg
Real Name:	Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
Occupation:	Internet Entrepreneur, Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Date Of Birth/Age:	May 14, 1984 (40) Years Old
Place of Birth:	White Plains, New York, U.S.
Gender:	Male
Nationality:	American
Marital Status:	Married
Education:	Ardsley High School Phillips Exeter Academy Harvard University (dropped out)
Height:	1.71 m
Net Worth:	$101.1B

Mark Zuckerberg Biography

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, also referred to as Zuck and born on May 14, 1984, is a business mogul, computer programmer, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist from the United States. He is renowned for co-founding Facebook, a social networking platform, and Meta Platforms, the corporation that owns it (formerly known as Facebook, Inc.), of which he serves as executive chairman, CEO, and majority shareholder.

While a student at Harvard University, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes were his roommates when they founded Facebook in February 2004. The website was first started on a few college campuses, but it quickly gained popularity and eventually reached one billion users in 2012.

He was the youngest self-made billionaire in the world in 2007 when he was only 23 years old. He has organized numerous charitable projects with the use of his money, including the founding of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

Family

Parents

In White Plains, New York, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg made his entrance into the world. Edward and Karen Zuckerberg, are his parents, who laid the groundwork for his upbringing. Edward is a dentist, and Karen, a psychotherapist. Jewish immigrants who came to America in search of a better life are Mark’s ancestors. His great-grandparents were immigrants from Austria, Germany, and Poland who left behind a rich cultural legacy.

Siblings

Randi Zuckerberg

Randi Zuckerberg is Mark’s eldest sibling. Randi enrolled to Harvard in 1999 to study psychology with plans to join the school’s music program. She was declined, nevertheless. Randi worked in marketing for the advertising company Ogilvy & Mather for two years after graduating from Harvard.

She later worked as a production assistant for Forbes on Fox for a year before joining Facebook in 2004. She founded her own production firm, Zuckerberg Media, a year after leaving Facebook, and it has produced shows and digital material.

Donna Zuckerberg

The third of the four Zuckerberg siblings and the only one to avoid a career in technology is Donna Zuckerberg. On her website, Donna describes herself as “a classicist, writer, and editor-in-chief of Eidolon, an online publication committed to non-traditional classical scholarship that is feminist, personal, and fun.”

This contrasts with her tech-savvy siblings. In 2014, she graduated with a Ph.D. in classics from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago.

Arielle Zuckerberg 

The eldest Zuckerberg sibling is a successful venture capitalist who is currently the general partner of Long Journey Ventures. After graduating from Claremont McKenna College, Arielle worked for Wildfire Interactive and Humin, two firms that were later acquired.

According to Forbes, she has a personal investment in firms including Flipkart and Houzz. In addition to her experience in technology and investing, Arielle moonlights as a DJ.

Children

Mark is the father of three girls. The billionaire and his wife announced the birth of their third child, Aurelia, on March 24 through Instagram, along with the first images of their baby girl. August, their second child, arrived in August 2017 with a message of support from her parents on, where else, Facebook. In a November 2015 Facebook post, Mark announced that Priscilla had given birth to the couple’s first daughter Maxima.

Wife

Priscilla Chan is an American philanthropist and former pediatrician who was born on February 24, 1985. In December 2015, she and her husband, Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Meta Platforms, launched the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, promising to transfer 99 percent of their Facebook shares, which were then worth at $45 billion. She studied at Harvard and earned her medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco.

Lifestyle

Net Worth

Last year, the Meta founder and CEO’s fortune topped $100 billion, making him one of the world’s ten centi-billionaires. According to Forbes, Zuckerberg’s net worth was $101.1 billion as of June, 2023.

Cars

Zuckerberg’s cars include a Pagani Huayra, an Infiniti G25, a Volkswagen Golf MK6 GTI, an Acura TSX, and a Honda Fit. The Facebook founder reportedly gets by in a Honda Fit or an Acura TSX on a daily basis. He considers the Acura TSX to be safe, comfy, and unobtrusive. On multiple occasions, he has been observed driving his Volkswagen Golf GTI.

House

About 1,400 acres and 10 homes are owned by the billionaire in Palo Alto, San Francisco, Lake Tahoe, and Hawaii. He has a track record of running into disputes with his neighbors, from San Francisco’s building noise complaints to a petition against “colonization” as a result of his expanding Hawaii real estate portfolio. The homes barely make a dent on his billions.

Businesses

Facebook

Meta Platforms, an American technology company, owns Facebook, an online social media and social networking site. Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 with fellow Harvard College roomates and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.

Instagram

For $1 billion, Meta purchased Instagram in 2012. The photo-sharing software had 50 million users at the time but no income. Since then, there are now more than a billion Instagram users worldwide.

Whatsapp

Two years after purchasing Instagram, Meta paid an astounding $19 billion to acquire the WhatsApp messaging service. WhatsApp wasn’t profitable, but its popularity was a key factor in the transaction. WhatsApp had 450 million users at the time and was gaining 1 million users every day.

Oculus VR

In 2014, Meta paid Oculus VR $2 billion to acquire their line of VR headsets. It’s difficult to argue that the purchase has paid off yet nine years later.

Intercom

With the 2014 Series C round, which brought Intercom’s total funding to $66 million, Zuckerberg participated through Iconiq.

Education

Mark finished high school at Ardsley High School before transferring to Phillips Exeter Academy. In 2002, he was accepted to Harvard University to study Psychology and Computer Science. He was a member of Kirkland House and Alpha Epsilon. Mark did not stay at Harvard for long, as programming on Facebook began in 2003. He dropped out of college in his second year.