Mark Eliot Zuckerberg was born in a Jewish family in New York on May 14, 1984. Zuckerberg is the founder and CEO of the social networking site Facebook, and is dubbed the "Second Gates" by people. Zuckerberg graduated from Exeter School in 2002; he founded the social networking site Facebook in 2004; in May 2017 he received an honorary doctorate of law from Harvard University. On April 18, 2019, Zuckerberg was listed on the list of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2019. On September 5, 2019, the Breakthrough Award Foundation and its patron Mark Zuckerberg and others jointly announced the winners of the 2020 Breakthrough Award and New Horizons Award. On October 24, Zuckerberg attended a hearing in the US Congress and stated that Facebook's newly launched virtual cryptocurrency Libra aims to help disadvantaged groups establish financial accounts.
In 2002, Zuckerberg graduated from Exeter School and entered Harvard University. In the second grade, he developed a program called CourseMatch, which is a program that allows users to refer to course selection based on the logic of other students' course selection. Some time later, he developed another program called Facemash, which allows students to choose the best looking person from a bunch of photos. According to Zuckerberg's roommate Arie Hasit, he did this only for fun. Hasit explained: "He has several books called Face Books, which contain the names and photos of students. At first, he created a website and put a few photos, two photos of boys and two photos of girls, and the viewers You can choose which one is the hottest and rank it according to the voting results.” This competition lasted for a weekend, but on Monday morning, it was shut down by the school because the Harvard server was bombed, so students were not allowed to enter the website.
In 2004, Zuckerberg dropped out of school to start a business. In February 2004, Zuckerberg, a second-year student majoring in computer and psychology at Harvard University, had a whim to set up a website as a platform for student exchanges at Harvard University. It only took about a week for Zuckerberg to build this website called Facebook. Today, it has become one of the most important social networking sites in the world. Even politicians such as former US President Barack Obama and Queen Elizabeth II have become Facebook users. On May 25, 2017, Mark Zuckerberg returned to Harvard University. In addition to receiving an honorary doctorate of law, he was also invited to give a speech to graduates at the 366th graduation ceremony of Harvard University.
In 2012, 28-year-old Zuckerberg donated $498.8 million in Facebook stock for charity. These stocks were all donated to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation in December 2013 for education and health projects, a total of 18 million shares. On September 23, 2013, Zuckerberg announced a donation of 100 million US dollars to sponsor the renovation of the school in Newark, New Jersey. This donation set a record for charitable donations by young Americans. When the outside world mentions Zuckerberg, they always compare it with Microsoft founder Bill Gates, because they are all "bad students" who dropped out of Harvard University. They all started from scratch and started businesses on the Internet, thus affecting worldwide. In September 2016, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a charity company founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chen, announced that it would invest $3 billion in the next ten years to treat and control all human diseases.
In 2017, the US "Forbes" released the 2017 Global Rich List, and Zuckerberg ranked fifth with $56 billion; on July 17, the "Forbes Rich List" was released, and Mark Zuckerberg ranked with a net worth of $66.7 billion Sixth; on July 7, 2018, Zuckerberg surpassed Buffett and became the third richest person in the world. On September 13, 2018, Zuckerberg published a 3300-word long article on his Facebook website titled "Prepare for the Election", detailing all the steps the company has taken to combat election interference. In March 2019, Mark Eliot Zuckerberg ranked 8th in the 2019 Forbes Global Billionaires list with a fortune of $62.3 billion. In October 2019, Forbes ranked fourth in the 400 richest Americans. On March 9, 2020, with a fortune of 590 billion yuan, it ranked first in the "2020 Hurun Global Young and Strong Self-made Rich List".