Mark Zuckerberg
Full Name : Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
Zuckerberg was born in 1984 in White Plains, New York.
He is an American programmer, Internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist.
He is the chairman, chief executive, and co-founder of the social networking website Facebook.
He is the son of dentist Edward Zuckerberg and psychiatrist Karen Kempner.
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. At Ardsley High School, Zuckerberg excelled in classes.
He transferred to Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in his junior year, where he won prizes in science (math, astronomy, and physics) and classical studies.
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.
Zuckerberg wife name is Priscilla Chan. The couple got married on May 19, 2012.
On December 1, 2015, Zuckerberg and Chan announced the birth of their daughter Max, and in an open letter to Max, they pledged to donate 99% of their Facebook shares, then valued at $45 billion, to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, their new charitable foundation with focuses on health and education. The donation will not be given to charity immediately, but over the course of their lives.
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