Mind Blowing Facts about Mark Zuckerberg


The CEO and founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg turned 31 on 15th of May,2015.
Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook at the age of 20,and took it to public in May 19, 2012.
Facebook had its Initial Public Offering, which raised $16 billion, making it the biggest internet IPO in history.
A day after the IPO, Zuckerberg wed his longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan.
He is now among the 10 most richest men after the listing of Facebook on NYSE. Zuckerberg is now worth $35.1 billion and counting.


  •  Zuckerberg is born to Jewish parents, and considers himself an atheist.Being an atheist he does not own a TV.
  • Zuckerberg learnt Chinese in the year 2010 just to communicate with his girlfriend Priscilla Chan's family members.He also know 5 more languages English, Hebrew, Latin, French, and Ancient Greek.
  • At the age of 13 he had already created a ATARI BASIC computer network for his family, Zucknet which allowed the computers in the family and his father's dental office to send messages to each other through pinging.
  • In just high school he had designed Synapse, a Music Application that used artificial intelligence to learn users' music-listening habits.
  • Mark Zuckerberg holds about 50 patents to his name. The first was issued in November 2004 for the technology behind the Synapse Media Player.
  • He has been accused of intellectual theft, blasphemy and failure to uphold a contract by twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra, who claimed that Zuckerberg had stolen their idea for Facebook.
  • Mark Zuckerberg wore a tie for the entire year in 2009 to show how serious and important the year was, following the recession that began in 2008.
  • He has got more than 3,36,000 followers on Twitter despite the fact that he has only 19 tweets to since joined(February 2009)  https://twitter.com/finkd/
  • In July 2011, Zuckerberg became the most-followed user on Google+, surpassing its co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
  • Time magazine named him Person of the Year in 2010.He donated $100 million to save the failing Newark Public Schools system in New Jersey.




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