Thursday, January 12, 2023

Mark Zuckerberg

 Zuckerberg was an Harvard University student, where the founder of Facebook was Facebook in February 2004 with his classmates Eduardo Saverin and Dustin Moskovitz. The site was initially launched for select college campuses, the site was quickly growing and soon expanded beyond colleges, gaining one billion users in 2012. Zuckerberg went public with the company in May 2012, acquiring the majority stakes. He became the youngest self-made billionaire in the world when he was age 23. He has utilized his wealth to organize multiple philanthropic endeavors which include the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.Since 2008, Time magazine has named Zuckerberg among the 100 most influential people around the globe as a part of its Person of the Year award which he was awarded with in 2010. In December of 2016, Zuckerberg was ranked tenth on the Forbes list of the World's most powerful people. On the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans in 2022 he was ranked 11th , having a wealth of $57.7 billion, down from his position as the third-richest American in 2021. He had the net worth of $134.5 billion. According to Forbes Real Time Billionaires, Zuckerberg was the 26th richest person on the planet at the end of December 2022. His net worth was $42.4 Billion. A documentary about his career, The Social Network, was released in 2010.




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