1. Mark Zuckerberg began programming at a young age--
when he was 12 he created a messaging program that his
father used in his dental office, allowing the receptionist to
notify him of new patients without yelling across the office




2. Zuckerberg took a computer graduate class at the nearby
Mercy College while still in high school.


3. His parents even hired a computer tutor to work with the
young Zuckerberg, but the tutor admitted that it quickly
became difficult to stay ahead of his pupil, referring to him as
a "prodigy."



4. Mark Zuckerberg attended high school at Phillips Exeter
Academy, a private school in New Hampshire.


5. He was approached by several companies with job offers
(including AOL and Microsoft) before he even graduated
high school, but Zuckerberg turned them all down.


6. Zuckerberg first launched Facebook from his dormitory at
Harvard University.


7. He dropped out of Harvard University after his sophomore
year to continue working on Facebook.


8. A movie was made about Zuckerberg and the birth of
Facebook, called The Social Network.


9. Before Facebook, Zuckerberg created CourseMatch for
Harvard students, helping students pick out classes based on
which classes their friends were enrolled in.


10. He also created the infamous Facemash program, which
compared pictures of two Harvard students and allowed users
to vote on who was more attractive. Harvard administration
shut down the program, deeming it inappropriate.



11. Zuckerberg's next project involved teaming up with three
other Harvard Students, Divya Narendra and the Winklevoss
twins (who are infamously portrayed in The Social Network).
They aimed to create a social networking site called Harvard
Connection, which would serve as a matchmaking site for
students. Zuckerberg soon left this project to work on
Facebook with his friends.


12. Zuckerberg was close friends with Sean Parker, the co-
founder of Napster, who also became a founding president of
Facebook.



13. Early on, many companies like Yahoo! and MTV
Networks approached Zuckerberg in hopes of advertising on
Facebook, but Zuckerberg turned them down, not wanting to
sell out.



14. In 2006, the Harvard Connection team sued Zuckerberg,
claiming he stole their concept and requesting compensation
of their business losses. While Zuckerberg asserted that the
ideas were completely different, incriminating messages
revealed that Zuckerberg may have intentionally ripped off
intellectual property from the Harvard Connection.



15. A settlement of 1.2 million Facebook stock shares and
million in cash was eventually reached.



16. Zuckerberg wasn't the only one irritated with the
Winklevoss twins. Former Harvard President Larry Summers
had no love for the pair either, saying, "One of the things you
learn as a college president is that if an undergraduate is
wearing a tie and jacket on Thursday afternoon at three
o'clock, there are two possibilities. One is that they're looking
for a job and have an interview; the other is that they are an
asshole. This was the latter case."






17. Zuckerberg was not a fan of The Social Network, arguing
that many of the film's details were inaccurate.




18. Zuckerberg notes that the film took huge liberties with
some events, while staying oddly true to others. He observed
that while he never had any interest in joining the finals
clubs (an element that plays a major role in the film), every
shirt and fleece depicted in the movie was an actual piece of
clothing that he has owned.




19. The Social Network is based off of the book, The
Accidental Billionaires, by Ben Mezrich. The book has been
known to deviate quite a bit from actual events, as even the
book's publicist referred to it as "big juicy fun" rather than
"reportage."




20. The Social Network's screenwriter, Aaron Sorkin,
confessed to New York magazine that, "I don't want my
fidelity to be the truth; I want it to be storytelling...what is the
big deal about accuracy purely for accuracy's sake?"



21. Mark Zuckerberg was one of the early adopters of Google
+, saying that it validated his vision of mainstream social
networking. In 2011, Zuckerberg was the most followed user
on Google+, with even more followers than Google co-
founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.



22. Zuckerberg has supported numerous philanthropic
causes, most famously donating million to rescue the
struggling Newark Public Schools system of New Jersey.



23. Zuckerberg has signed the "Giving Pledge" commitment,
promising to donate at least 50% of his wealth over the
course of his lifetime.



24. In 2014, Zuckerberg donated millions to combat the ebola
virus epidemic in West Africa.


25. Zuckerberg's marriage to
longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan was quite the surprise for
friends and family--guests were told they were being invited
over to celebrate Chan's medical school graduation, but in
reality they ended up attending the pair's wedding.




26. Similar to Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg has a annual
salary as CEO of Facebook.



27. Zuckerberg was Time magazine's "Person of the Year" in
2010 and in 2013, Facebook made the Fortune 500 list for the
first time--making Zuckerberg, at the age of 28, the youngest
CEO on the list.



28. Zuckerberg is currently #10 on Forbe's list of the 400
richest Americans.

Source:Techarena.cf

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