Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York. He is the son of a dentist father and a psychiatrist mother. Mark excelled in his academics in high school. In middle school he began using computers and coding.
It is reported by the time he entered Harvard University he already achieved a reputation as a programming prodigy. While in college he co-founded with five other people the social networking website, Facebook. They launched Facebook from Harvard University’s dormitory rooms. They then launched Facebook onto other campuses nationwide and moved to Palo Alto, California shortly thereafter.
When Mark was 23 years old in 2007, he became a billionaire riding on the success of Facebook. In 2012, the number of Facebook users climbed to a total of one billion. Mark was also involved in a number of legal disputes that were started by others in the group, who claimed a share of the company based on their involvement during he development phase of Facebook.
He sits as chairman and CEO of Facebook ,earning a CEO salary of one dollar. His net worth though as of July 2015, was estimated at $38.6 billion.
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