The fabulous life of billionaire mark zuckerberg

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The Fabulous Life Of Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg

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The Fabulous Life Of Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg

By : Yustika Nurani W

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The Fabulous Life Of Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg

Earlier this week, Facebook crushed its second quarter earnings and its stock hit an all-time high — which really just means Mark Zuckerberg is one step closer to being the richest man in the world.Zuckerberg’s current net worth is about $33.1 billion, putting him at No. 16 in Forbe’s ranking of the world’s billionaires. More impressively, he is one of just three people who currently have more billions under their belt than years lived.The Harvard dropout has clearly made it big thanks to the 2.2 billion people on Facebook. He’s known for his charitable tendencies, but Zuckerberg also manages to lead a pretty extravagant life at the same time.

Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York. He is the son of dentist Edward Zuckerberg and psychiatrist Karen Kempner.He grew up with his three siblings in the nearby town, Dobbs Ferry. At the age of 12, Zuckerberg used Atari BASIC to create a messaging program his dad used in his dental office

Zuckerberg went to Phillips Exeter Academy, an exclusive preparatory school in New Hampshire. While still in high school, he created an early music

streaming platform, which AOL and Microsoft showed interest in, but were rebuffed by young Zuck

Zuckerberg enrolled in Harvard University in 2002, where he quickly became known for his developer skills. After his sophomore year, he decided to drop

out and focus on “The Facebook,” which he had been running out of his dormroom.

Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room on February 4, 2004. An earlier inspiration for Facebook may have come from Phillips Exeter Academy, the prep school from which Zuckerberg graduated in 2002. It published its own student directory, “The Photo Address Book,” which students referred to as “The Facebook.” Such photo directories were an important part of the student social experience at many private schools. With them, students were able to list attributes such as their class years, their friends, and their telephone numbers.Once at college, Zuckerberg's Facebook started off as just a "Harvard thing" until Zuckerberg decided to spread it to other schools, enlisting the help of roommate Dustin Moskovitz. They began with Columbia, New York University, Stanford, Dartmouth, Cornell, Penn, Brown, and Yale. Samyr Laine, a triple jumper representing Haiti at the 2012 Summer Olympics, shared a room with Zuckerberg during Facebook's founding. "Mark was clearly on to great things," said Laine, who was Facebook's fourteenth user

Before dropping out, Zuckerberg met his now-wife, Priscilla Chan. Chan told “Today’s” Savannah Guthrie that they met at a frat party. “On our first date, he told me that he’d rather go on a date with me than finish his take-home

midterm,” she said.

The two married on May 19, 2012 at a surprise wedding, where guests thought they were attending a med school

graduation for Chan.

By the end of 2005, the site had surpassed 5.5 million users and received $12.7 million from Accel Ventures.