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Mark Zuckerberg

by Hideo Nakamura
Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist best known for co-founding and leading Facebook, the world’s largest social media platform, as its chairman and chief executive officer. He also co-founded and is a board member of the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative.

Born in 1984 in White Plains, New York, Zuckerberg attended Harvard University, where he launched Facebook from his dormitory room on February 4th 2004 with college roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The following year he dropped out of college to focus on the website. After its launch it quickly gained widespread popularity; within months it had one million users.

In 2006 at age 22 Zuckerberg became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire when Microsoft bought 1.6 percent of Facebook for $240 million dollars worth of stock options allowing him to keep control over the company indefinitely. In 2007 Forbes magazine named him number one on their list of “The World’s Most Powerful People”. As well as being CEO at Facebook Inc., Mark has invested or created other projects such as artificial intelligence research lab OpenAI; Internet access project Internetorg; photo sharing app Instagram (which he acquired); virtual reality company Oculus VR (acquired by facebook)and messaging service WhatsApp (also acquired by facebook).

Despite numerous controversies including copyright infringement lawsuits against him personally which were ultimately settled out of court , false advertising allegations regarding user privacy settings that were settled with FTC enforcement actions requiring more transparency , Cambridge Analytica data scandal involving millions of users’ profiles without consent resulting in fines from EU regulators and U.S Congress hearings etc., Mr Zuckerberg continues to lead globally renowned digital business revolutionising how people share information online today .

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