Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984)
is an American computer programmer, Internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist.
He is the chairman, chief executive, and co-founder of the social networking
website Facebook. His net worth is estimated to be $48.2 billion as of
2016.[3]
Together with his college roommates and
fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin
Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, he launched Facebook from Harvard's dormitory
rooms.[6] The group then introduced Facebook to other campuses. Facebook expanded
rapidly, with one billion users by 2012. Zuckerberg was involved in various
legal disputes that were initiated by others in the group, who claimed a share
of the company based upon their involvement during the development phase of
Facebook.
In December 2012, Zuckerberg and his wife
Priscilla Chan announced they would give the majority of their wealth over the
course of their lives to "advancing human potential and promoting
equality" in the spirit of The Giving Pledge.[7] On December 1, 2015, they
announced they would give 99% of their Facebook shares (worth about $45 billion
at the time) to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
Since 2010, Time magazine has named
Zuckerberg among the 100 wealthiest and most influential people in the world as
a part of its Person of the Year distinction.
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