Mark Zuckerberg
It is sometimes believed that someone’s
financial worth can be deduced from the
car they drive. Although somewhat
popular, this assertion has been
rubbished by the world’s youngest
billionaire, co-founder and CEO of
Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg.
Some of his contemporaries or multi-
millionaires and billionaires drive Ferraris,
Lamborghinis, Rolls Royces, Aston Martins
and Bugatti Veyrons, which come with
hefty price tags running into hundreds of
thousands of dollars and even millions.
Zuckerberg, 29, and currently worth $
19bn, according to Forbes, drives an Acura
TSX and a Honda Fit, which cost about $
30,000 and $18,000, respectively.
His Acura TSX, is an entry level luxury
sedan which uses a 2.4 litre in-line 4
cylinder engine. It can churn out 201 hp
and 172 lb-ft torque and has a 5 -speed
automatic transmission, which comes with
steering-wheel paddle shifters for
optional manual shifting. The car is quite
packed with luxury features like leather
interior, automatic climate control, a
seven-speaker sound system, Satellite
Radio, Bluetooth and HandsFreeLink.
Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984 in
White Plains, New York, to Edward
Zuckerberg, a dentist, and Karen (née
Kempner), a psychiatrist. Even though, he
was raised Jewish, Zuckerberg had since
described himself as an atheist. As a
junior student, Zuckerberg won prizes in
science (mathematics, astronomy and
physics) and classical studies. While most
of his mates were busy playing games as
young students, Zuckerberg was creating
them.
In his early teens he created a music
player named Synapse – as a school
project – using some help from a friend,
which used artificial intelligence to
understand one’s taste in music and
created a playlist accordingly. Software
bigwigs like Microsoft and AOL tried to
buy it and even recruit Mark. But he
refused both. Instead, he went to Harvard
in 2002. On February 4, 2004, with the
help of his room mates, Dutsin Moskovitz
and Chris Hughes, and using the finance
provided by another friend, Eduardo
Saverin, he launched what was then
called, The Facebook. It was an instant
hit, and soon made Mark the next big
thing.
On September 14, 2012, Facebook hit 1
billion users, a remarkable feat for a
company that started in Zuckerberg’s
dormitory room while he was at Harvard.
Zuckerberg later dropped out of Harvard
in his second year to concentrate on his
project.
If you think that Zuckerberg’s home will
suggest his enormous wealth, you are
mistaken. The American computer
programmer and Internet entrepreneur
owns a house in Palo Alto , California,
which is his first property investment. But
prior to this, he had always stayed in
rented apartment. Zuckerberg lives in the
house with his wife, Priscilla Chan. The
young billionaire is known to be a fan of
renting and a relatively modest lifestyle.
The house sits in the area of 5,1617-
square-foot, was originally built in 1903.
Since the house is of historic times, it
boasts gorgeous historical elements, like
sash windows, coffered ceilings, French
doors, and deep porches. The 5-bedroom
house was bought for $7m. Although the
house is grand, it is still considered
modest, compared to the residences of
Zuckerberg’s other IT contemporaries.
Zuckerberg and his wife reportedly
bought a new house in San Francisco for
almost $10m recently, but the couple
have neither confirmed nor denied the
mansion, said to be undergoing
reconstruction.
The work includes a $65,000 kitchen and
bathroom remodel, a $60,000 greenhouse
and the replacement of an exterior wall
and stairway, plus seismic upgrades.
Zuckerberg does not own a private jet,
but Facebook authorised its CEO and
COO to use private aircraft for business
purposes to maximise such executives’
productive time and ensure their quick
availability. On some occasions, the jet
could also be used for personal purposes.
On May 19, 2012, Zuckerberg got married
to his long time college sweetheart,
Priscilla, in an astonishing ceremony at his
Palo Alto home in California . The
propitious wedding was kept behind the
curtains in such a way that even the
guests thought they were attending
Priscilla’s graduation from the Univeristy
of California.
Zuckerberg announced the nuptial on his
social networking site ‘Facebook’, via a
status update, posting his wedding picture
which was liked by more than 280,000
people. Just a day before the wedding,
Facebook’s fortune rose to £12bn in the
stock market.
Facebook Inc CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has
begun a campaign to make the United
States government more transparent in
its surveillance programmes.
Zuckerberg said more openness regarding
the secretive programmes were required
because they had been hurting users’
trust in Internet companies such as his.
During a meeting with members of
Congress last week in Washington, the
29-year-old social media billionaire urged
the US government to inform the public
about its requests for data from Internet
companies.
He said, “What I can tell from the data
that I see at Facebook is that I think the
more transparency and communication
the government could do about how
they’re requesting the data from us, the
better everyone would feel about it.
“From reading in the media, you couldn’t
get a sense whether the number of
requests that the government makes is
closer to a thousand or closer to a 100
million. I think the more transparency
the government has, the better folks will
feel.”
15 interesting facts about Zuckerberg
1. Type @[4:0] in a Facebook comment,
and Mark Zuckerberg’s name will appear.
2. You can’t block Mark Zuckerberg on
Facebook.
3. Facebook is blue because Zuckerberg
has a red-green colour-blindness.
4. In 2009, Zuckerberg wore a tie for the
entire year as a symbol of how serious
and important the year was, following the
recession that began in 2008.
5. He says he’s not that interested in
money but in connecting the world.
6. He’s spent a year trying to eat only
meat that he kills.
7. By the time he turned 13, he had
already created a basic computer network
for his family dubbed “Zucknet,” which
allowed the computers in the family and
his father’s dental office to send
messages to each other by pinging.
8. He designed his wife’s wedding ring.
9. At a party one Friday night, Zuckerberg
met Priscilla, a Chinese American from
Boston , who later became his wife.
10. To be able to communicate with
Priscilla’s family members, Zuckerberg
started to learn Chinese in 2010.
11. Zuckerberg’s first car was a Subaru
Forester SUV.
12. Mark Zuckerberg is also on Twitter as
@finkd where he has over 150,000
followers but has posted only 19 tweets
in the last three and a half years.
13. Zuckerberg has also created a few
computer games.
14. His favourite musicians include Daft
Punk, Lady Gaga, Shakira and Rihanna.
15. Eduardo Saverin, one of the four co-
founders of Facebook had provided the $
1000 seed capital to start Facebook.
Zuckerberg wants more transparency in
Internet surveillance
Sources: www.sfgate.com;
www.bornrich.com;
www.celebritycarsblog.com;
ibnlive.in.com;
www.washingtonpost.com;
en.wikipedia.com

I love that boy...my role model

The most funny and my fav story i've read about him was that he once wore a bathrobe to work
If na Naija, them go say na im village pipo curse am

I even heard that he does not have private office, he works with his co-worker on his station on the floor encouraging no-door policy instead of open-door policy.
Nice post @OP

@op u should hav cut the story short after the car details. Re peating the coder to billionaire aspects was unnecessary. Every body knows how zucker boy made it! At least every programmer worth his title.