Life story of a Tech-giant Mark Zuckerberg (Owner of Facebook, Whatsapp etc.)

 

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is popularly known as Mark Zuckerberg, he is an American philanthropist, internet entrepreneur and media magnate. He was born on 14^th May 1984 and is well-known as the controlling shareholder, chief executive officer, chairman and co-founder of Facebook Inc. He started social networking site with his college roommates Chris Hughes, Dustin Moskovitz, Andrew McCollum and Eduardo on 4^th February 2004. After leaving from college, he enhanced his focus on site to make it more user-friendly which guides to growth of user base.

                        Edward Zuckerberg father of Mark Zuckerberg doing dental practice on the family home. Karen is his mother; she is a psychiatrist. At the early stages of life, Mark Zuckerberg has strong interest in learning computers. He also makes computer games with his friends; they draw stuff and he create game from it. His parents appointed private computer tutor David Newman to teach him more about the computers. The interest of him towards computer has grown significantly and he continues to work on making novel programs.

                        He remains working on the development of novel computer programs. At the high school time, he made a music software Pandora named Synapse, many organizations have shown interest in hiring the teenager and purchasing the software. He devoted himself for the development of Facebook Inc, it allows users to communicate with other people, upload photos, make their own profiles. The overall users of Facebook have reached 1 million by the end of 2004. The venture capital company Accel Partners invested around $12 million into the network which act as a huge boost for the company.

                        The users of site keep on growing and it crossed 5.5 million users by December 2005. It started getting attention from various companies which wanted to advertise with famous social networking platforms. He got offers from the big companies like MTV networks and Yahoo! but he turned down the offers and concentrate on developing the site to outside developers and includes more specifications. The Facebook Inc had its IPO in May 2012, it raised $16 billion. The net worth of Zuckerberg crossed $100 billion on 6^th August 2020. The Time Magazine has given “Person of the Year” award and ranked him among the 100 most powerful and richest people in the world. Zuckerberg signed “The Giving pledge on 9^th December 2010 in which he promised to 50% of his wealth to charity. The company has currently acquired 82 companies which include popular social media platforms like Instagram, Whatsapp etc. The large portion of companies acquired by them are US based companies. Zuckerberg donated $25 million to Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to find effective treatments for Covid-19 pandemic.