The life and career of Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook boss

Mark Zuckerberg is the 16th richest billionaire in the world according to Forbes magazine, with a fortune of about 33.4 billion dollars.

Fame and wealth are what Mark Zuckerberg has achieved with Facebook after the journey of connecting billions of people around the world. Let's look at the main features of this 31-year-old billionaire.

Edward and Karen Zuckerberg, a dentist and a psychiatrist, gave birth and raised all four children: Randi, Donna, Arielle and Mark in New York City, USA.From a young age, Mark Zuckerberg proved to be a talented child when successfully writing a messaging application called "Zucknet" in the Atari BASIC language at 12 years old.He also often programmed computer games for friends.

Mark Zuckerberg enrolled in the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire.Here, he built an online music platform that attracted the attention of Microsoft and AOL.Even so, Mark declined the offer of work or acquisition.

Mark is not merely a computer "child" .He also loves classic things like the Odyssey Epic.Mark is also the captain of the sword fighting team in high school.

Shortly after being admitted to Harvard University in 2002, Mark quickly became known as a talented programmer. He founded "The Facebook" with a few friends right in the dorm room and dropped out after finishing the second year to fully focus on his social network.

Before leaving school, Mark had met Priscilla Chan (now his wife). Chan shared that she met Mark Zuckerberg at a party. "On the first date, he told me that he would rather go on an appointment with me than at home doing mid-term lessons , " Chan said.

Facebook received an investment in the Series A round of funding of up to 12.7 billion dollars when Mark Zuckerberg was not even old enough to drink. In 2010, Mark was named "The Character of the Year" by TIME magazine .

In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook's stories were brought to the big screen in a movie work called "The Social Network".The movie received eight Academy Awards nominations, but Mark insisted that a lot of the details it conveyed were not true to the truth.

Aaron Sorkin is director of The Social Network.Mark Zuckerberg may not like this work, but The West Wing TV show is one of the programs that his father Facebook likes to love.

On May 18, 2012, Facebook first issued shares to the public.The IPO of this social network received $ 16 billion in investment.At that time, this was the biggest IPO in technology companies' history until Alibaba took this position last year.

At this point, Chan and Zuckerberg continue to date.Later, the two married at Palo Alto.

Mark Zuckerberg studied his Chinese and Chinese well enough to make a 30-minute questionnaire last fall in this language.

Only the occasional sale of Facebook shares that I hold also makes Mark Zuckerberg so rich that he doesn't need to receive a salary.Accordingly, this CEO receives only $ 1 a year.

Tyler Winklevoss once talked about Mark in an interview: "Mark is the poorest man I've ever seen in my life."

Hoodie and T-shirt are Mark Zuckerberg's "cupboard" fashion gout.

Mark Zuckerberg drove a black Volkswagen GTI for about $ 30,415.

In October 2014, Mark spent $ 100 million to buy 750 hectares of land on Kauai Island, Hawaii.Here, he will build a private resort.

In Palo Alto, Mark used $ 45 million to buy a 5,000-square-foot house.He also bought all the land and houses around.

Mark Zuckerberg also has a $ 10 million villa in San Francisco.

When he did this, Mark was supposed to hire people to sit in cars parked near his house at night to . keep parking space for construction workers.

Mark did not hesitate to "spend money" to make the world better.He contributed $ 992 million to Silicon Valley Community Fund and $ 75 million to San Francisco General Hospital in 2013 and 2014.

Mark Zuckerberg was quite open to using Facebook's money . when he grew up in a social network constantly trying to acquire other companies, such as Instagram ($ 1 billion), WhatsApp ($ 19 billion) and Oculus (2 billion USD).

At the age of 31, Mark is one of the few people with more billion dollars than the number of years living in the world.

However, Mark has a very simple and friendly lifestyle.He regularly organizes Q&A programs with everyone in the world to chat and share.