On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room. 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".
On December 19, 2013, Zuckerberg announced a donation of 18 million Facebook shares to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, to be executed by the end of the month—based on Facebook's valuation as of then, the shares totaled $990 million in value.
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A movie based on Zuckerberg and the founding years of Facebook, The Social Network was released on October 1, 2010, starring Jesse Eisenberg as Zuckerberg. After Zuckerberg was told about the film, he responded, "I just wished that nobody made a movie of me while I was still alive."
As of July 2021, Zuckerberg's net worth is $132 billion, making him the 5th-richest person in the world. Since 2008, Time magazine has named Zuckerberg among the 100 most influential people in the world as a part of its Person of the Year award.
Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York . His parents are Karen (née Kempner), a psychiatrist, and Edward Zuckerberg, a dentist. He and his three sisters, Randi, Donna, and Arielle, were brought up in Dobbs Ferry, New York, a small Westchester County village about 21 miles (34 km) north of Midtown Manhattan. Zuckerberg was raised in a Reform Jewish household, and his ancestors hailed from Germany, Austria and Poland. He had a Star Wars -themed bar mitzvah when he turned 13.
The New Yorker noted that by the time Zuckerberg began classes at Harvard in 2002, he had already achieved a "reputation as a programming prodigy." He studied psychology and computer science and belonged to Alpha Epsilon Pi and Kirkland House. In his sophomore year, he wrote a program that he called CourseMatch, which allowed users to make class selection decisions based on the choices of other students and also to help them form study groups. A short time later, he created a different program he initially called Facemash that let students select the best-looking person from a choice of photos. According to Arie Hasit, Zuckerberg's roommate at the time, "he built the site for fun." Hasit explains:
On September 22, 2010, it was reported that Zuckerberg had donated $100 million to Newark Public Schools, the public school system of Newark, New Jersey. Critics noted the timing of the donation as being close to the release of The Social Network, which painted a somewhat negative portrait of Zuckerberg.
Zuckerberg took a graduate course in the subject at Mercy College near his home while still in high school. In one program, since his father's dental practice was operated from their home, he built a software program he called "ZuckNet" that allowed all the computers between the house and dental office to communicate with each other. It is considered a "primitive" version of AOL 's Instant Messenger, which came out the following year.
Stephen Colbert awarded a "Medal of Fear" to Zuckerberg at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on October 30, 2010, "because he values his privacy much more than he values yours". Zuckerberg appears in the climax of the documentary film Terms and Conditions May Apply.
During Zuckerberg's high-school years, he worked under the company name Intelligent Media Group to build a music player called the Synapse Media Player. The device used machine learning to learn the user's listening habits, which was posted to Slashdot and received a rating of 3 out of 5 from PC Magazine.
Whether you “like” or “dislike” Facebook, it’s hard to ignore the impact it’s had on the internetz at large. It’s been a game changer in the way that we interact with online content and basically created the ubiquitous term “social networking”.
Like all quasi-geeky icons, it was only a matter of time before Mark Zuckerberg himself was turned into a figurine by an adoring fan. This one here, like the best kinds of figurines, is limited edition and sold through the online store “M.I.C store”.
The level of detail is incredible and props to the artist for nailing the outfit. I have to give credit to Mark for making the hooded sweatshirt, jean and Addidas flip-flop the new Yuppie uniform. See Mom, it’s cool to dress like a bum. His head is slightly over-sized, in the style of a Bobble Head, except Mr. Zuckerberg’s head turns for nothing.
In addition to the sign, you can also fill in speech bubbles (quotes from the movie), included with the figurine, and attach them to his face. If you want a piece of the CEO of Facebook, that you can hand off to your children and your children’s children, make sure you snatch up one of these figurines before they’re all gone.
Oracle has filed a fresh petition with the Supreme Court of the United States, opening another chapter in its year-long battle with the Pentagon over the award of a $10bn Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract to Microsoft.
A day after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared it's a " crazy idea " that fake Facebook news may have influenced the election – never mind the persuasive power of its ads – the web giant took to issuing fake death notices.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and his eyes, testify on Capitol Hill on April 11, 2018. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images. All eyes were on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today as sat through his second Congressional hearing on the Cambridge Analytica scandal. And Mark Zuckerberg’s eyes were—wait, hang on. Have you ever really looked at Mark Zuckerberg’s ...
Advertisement. Sure, it seems possible that Zuckerberg’s eyes are perhaps slightly larger than average in relation to the shape and size of his face and nose. But they look exactly the same as they have since he came on the scene in the 2000s as a wee billionaire with a website.