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Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer

and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known for co-creating the social

networking site Facebook, of which he is chief executive. It was co-founded as a

private company in 2004 by Zuckerberg and classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo

Saverin, and Chris Hughes while they were students at Harvard University. In

2010, Zuckerberg was named Time magazine's Person of the Year.[10] As of 2011,

his personal wealth was estimated to be $17.5 billion making him one of the

world's youngest billionaires.

Personal life

Zuckerberg was born in 1984 in White Plains, New York to Karen, a

psychiatrist, and Edward Zuckerberg, a dentist. He and his three sisters, Randi,

Donna, and Arielle, were brought up in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Zuckerberg was

raised Jewish and had his bar mitzvah when he turned 13; he has since described

himself as an atheist.

At Ardsley High School, Zuckerberg had excelled in the classics before

transferring to Phillips Exeter Academy in his junior year, where he won prizes

in science (math, astronomy and physics) and classical studies (on his college

application, Zuckerberg listed as non-English languages he could read and write:

French, Hebrew, Latin, and ancient Greek) and was a fencing star and captain of

the fencing team. In college, he was known for reciting lines from epic poems

such as The Iliad.

At a party put on by his fraternity during his sophomore year, Zuckerberg met

Priscilla Chan, a Chinese-American fellow student originally from the Boston

suburbs, and they began dating in 2003. In September 2010, Zuckerberg invited

Chan, by then a medical student at the University of California, San Francisco,

to move into his rented Palo Alto house. Zuckerberg studied Mandarin Chinese in

preparation for the couple's visit to China in December 2010.

On Zuckerberg's Facebook page, he listed his personal interests as "openness,

making things that help people connect and share what's important to them,

revolutions, information flow, minimalism". Zuckerberg sees blue best because of

red–green colorblindness; blue is also Facebook's dominant color.

Software developer

Early years

Zuckerberg began using computers and writing software as a child in middle

school. His father taught him Atari BASIC Programming in the 1990s, and later

hired software developer David Newman to tutor him privately. Newman calls him a

"prodigy," adding that it was "tough to stay ahead of him." Zuckerberg also took

a graduate course in the subject at Mercy College near his home while he was

still in high school. He enjoyed developing computer programs, especially

communication tools and games. In one such program, since his father's dental

practice was operated from their home, he built a software program he called

"ZuckNet," which allowed all the computers between the house and dental office

to communicate by pinging each other. It is considered a "primitive" version of

AOL's Instant Messenger, which came out the following year.

According to writer Jose Antonio Vargas, "some kids played computer games.

Mark created them." Zuckerberg himself recalls this period: "I had a bunch of

friends who were artists. They'd come over, draw stuff, and I'd build a game out

of it." However, notes Vargas, Zuckerberg was not a typical "geek-klutz," as he

later became captain of his prep school fencing team and earned a classics

diploma. Napster co-founder Sean Parker, a close friend, notes that Zuckerberg

was "really into Greek odysseys and all that stuff," recalling how he once

quoted lines from the Roman epic poem Aeneid, by Virgil, during a Facebook

product conference.

During Zuckerberg's high school years, under the company name Intelligent

Media Group, he built a music player called the Synapse Media Player that used

artificial intelligence to learn the user's listening habits, which was posted

to Slashdot and received a rating of 3 out of 5 from PC Magazine. Microsoft and

AOL tried to purchase Synapse and recruit Zuckerberg, but he chose instead to

enroll at Harvard University in September 2002.

Harvard years

By the time he began classes at Harvard, he had already achieved a

"reputation as a programming prodigy," notes Vargas. He studied psychology and

computer science as well as belonging to Alpha Epsilon Pi, a Jewish fraternity.

In his sophomore year, he wrote a program 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 Zuckerberg's roommate at

the time, Arie Hasit, "he built the site for fun." Hasit explains:

The site went up over a weekend, but by Monday morning the college shut it

down because its popularity had overwhelmed Harvard's server and prevented

students from accessing the Internet. In addition, many students complained that

their photos were being used without permission. Zuckerberg apologized publicly,

and the student paper ran articles stating that his site was "completely

improper."

Around the time of Facemash, however, students were requesting that the

university develop an internal website that would include similar photos and

contact details. According to Hasit, "Mark heard these pleas and decided that if

the university won't do something about it, he will, and he would build a site

that would be even better than what the university had planned."

Facebook

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 proximities to 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 first started it at Stanford, Dartmouth,

Columbia, New York University, Cornell, Penn, Brown, and Yale, and then at other

schools that had social contacts with Harvard.

Zuckerberg moved to Palo Alto, California, with Moskovitz and some friends.

They leased a small house that served as an office. Over the summer, Zuckerberg

met Peter Thiel who invested in the company. They got their first office in

mid-2004. According to Zuckerberg, the group planned to return to Harvard but

eventually decided to remain in California. They had already turned down offers

by major corporations to buy out Facebook. In an interview in 2007, Zuckerberg

explained his reasoning:

He restated these same goals to Wired magazine in 2010: "The thing I really

care about is the mission, making the world open." Earlier, in April 2009,

Zuckerberg sought the advice of former Netscape CFO Peter Currie about financing

strategies for Facebook.

On July 21, 2010, Zuckerberg reported that the company reached the 500

million-user mark. When asked whether Facebook could earn more income from

advertising as a result of its phenomenal growth, he explained:

In 2010, Steven Levy, who authored the 1984 book Hackers: Heroes of the

Computer Revolution, wrote that Zuckerberg "clearly thinks of himself as a

hacker." Zuckerberg said that "it's OK to break things" "to make them better."

Facebook instituted "hackathons" held every six to eight weeks where

participants would have one night to conceive of and complete a project. The

company provided music, food, and beer at the hackathons, and many Facebook

staff members, including Zuckerberg, regularly attended. "The idea is that you

can build something really good in a night", Zuckerberg told Levy. "And that's

part of the personality of Facebook now ... It's definitely very core to my

personality."

Vanity Fair magazine named Zuckerberg number 1 on its 2010 list of the Top

100 "most influential people of the Information Age". Zuckerberg ranked number

23 on the Vanity Fair 100 list in 2009. In 2010, Zuckerberg was chosen as number

16 in New Statesman's annual survey of the world's 50 most influential

figures.

In a 2011 interview with PBS after the death of Steve Jobs, Zuckerberg said

that Jobs had advised him on how to create a management team at Facebook that

was "focused on building as high quality and good things as you are."

Depictions in media

The Social Network

A movie based on Zuckerberg and the founding years of Facebook, called The

Social Network was released on October 1, 2010, and stars 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." Also, after the

film's script was leaked on the Internet and it was apparent that the film would

not portray Zuckerberg in a wholly positive light, he stated that he wanted to

establish himself as a "good guy". The film is based on the book The Accidental

Billionaires by Ben Mezrich, which the book's publicist once described as "big

juicy fun" rather than "reportage." The film's screenwriter Aaron Sorkin told

New York magazine, "I don't want my fidelity to be to the truth; I want it to be

to storytelling", adding, "What is the big deal about accuracy purely for

accuracy's sake, and can we not have the true be the enemy of the good?"

Upon winning the Golden Globes award for Best Picture on January 16, 2011,

producer Scott Rudin thanked Facebook and Zuckerberg "for his willingness to

allow us to use his life and work as a metaphor through which to tell a story

about communication and the way we relate to each other.” Sorkin, who won for

Best Screenplay, retracted some of the impressions given in his script:

On January 29, 2011, Zuckerberg made a surprise guest appearance on Saturday

Night Live, which was being hosted by Jesse Eisenberg. They both said it was the

first time they ever met. Eisenberg asked Zuckerberg, who had been critical of

his portrayal by the film, what he thought of the movie. Zuckerberg replied, "It

was interesting." In a subsequent interview about their meeting, Eisenberg

explains that he was "nervous to meet him, because I had spent now, a year and a

half thinking about him ..." He adds, "Mark has been so gracious about something

that’s really so uncomfortable ... The fact that he would do SNL and make fun of

the situation is so sweet and so generous. It’s the best possible way to handle

something that, I think, could otherwise be very uncomfortable."

Disputed accuracy

Jeff Jarvis, author of the book Public Parts, interviewed Zuckerberg and

believes Sorkin has made too much of the story up. He states, "That's what the

internet is accused of doing, making stuff up, not caring about the facts."

According to David Kirkpatrick, former technology editor at Fortune magazine

and author of The Facebook Effect:The Inside Story of the Company That Is

Connecting the World, (2011), "the film is only "40% true ... he is not snide

and sarcastic in a cruel way, the way Zuckerberg is played in the movie." He

says that "a lot of the factual incidents are accurate, but many are distorted

and the overall impression is false," and concludes that primarily "his

motivations were to try and come up with a new way to share information on the

internet."

Although the film portrays Zuckerberg's creation of Facebook in order to

elevate his stature after not getting into any of the elite final clubs at

Harvard, Zuckerberg himself said he had no interest in joining the final clubs.

Kirkpatrick agrees that the impression implied by the film is "false."

Karel Baloun, a former senior engineer at Facebook, notes that the "image of

Zuckerberg as a socially inept nerd is overstated ... It is fiction ..." He

likewise dismisses the film's assertion that he "would deliberately betray a

friend."

Philanthropy

Zuckerberg donated an undisclosed amount to Diaspora, an open-source personal

web server that implements a distributed social networking service. He called it

a "cool idea."

Zuckerberg founded the Start-up: Education foundation. On September 22, 2010,

it was reported that Zuckerberg had arranged to donate $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 responded

to the criticism, saying, "The thing that I was most sensitive about with the

movie timing was, I didn’t want the press about The Social Network movie to get

conflated with the Newark project. I was thinking about doing this anonymously

just so that the two things could be kept separate." Newark Mayor Cory A. Booker

stated that he and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie had to convince

Zuckerberg's team not to make the donation anonymously.

On December 9, 2010, Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and investor Warren Buffett

signed a promise they called the "Giving Pledge", in which they promised to

donate to charity at least half of their wealth over the course of time, and

invited others among the wealthy to donate 50% or more of their wealth to

charity.