Nairaland Forum

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to "married" on Saturday.

Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan tied the knot at a small ceremony at his Palo Alto, Calif., home, capping a busy week for the couple, according to a guest authorized to speak for the couple. The person spoke only on the condition of anonymity.
Zuckerberg took his company public in one of the most anticipated stock offerings in Wall Street history Friday. And Chan graduated from medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, on Monday, the same day Zuckerberg turned 28, the person said.
The couple met at Harvard and have been together for more than nine years, the person said.
Zuckerberg designed the ring featuring "a very simple ruby," according to the person.
The ceremony took place in Zuckerberg's backyard before fewer than 100 guests, including Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.
The guests all thought they were coming to celebrate Chan's graduation but were told after they arrived that the event was in fact a wedding.

"Everybody was shocked," the guest said.
Rather than his trademark hoodie, Zuckerberg wore a suit for the ceremony, while his bride wore a traditional wedding dress.

Food was served family-style and included dishes from the couple's favorite Palo Alto sushi restaurant. The two had been planning the marriage for months but were waiting until Chan had graduated to hold the wedding, the guest said.
The timing wasn't tied to the IPO, since the date the company planned to go public was a "moving target," the guest said.
Even after the IPO, Zuckerberg remains Facebook's single largest shareholder, with 503.6 million shares. And he controls the company with 56 percent of its voting stock.
The site, which was born in a dorm room eight years ago, has grown into a worldwide network of almost a billion people.
Zuckerberg founded Facebook at Harvard in 2004.
He was selected as Time's Person of the Year in 2010, at age 26.
Zuckerberg grew up in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2115265,00.html

Congratulations Mark!

While youngsters the world over are taking over the world's economy and setting standards, youth here are fighting to become PA's and hired hacks of thugs disguised as politicians in a bid to "oppress" as favoured "boys" of our theiving elite

Seun Over to you..when are you inviting us?

Is there a Nigerian equivalent to Mr. Zukerberg, living anywhere on the planet ?

The example that comes to my mind is that Nigerian entrepreneur who made a vast fortune in London simply by selling cell-phone ring-tones, for phuck's sake. I seriously respect the chutspah it takes to cash in big time with such a simple, and you would think obvious, idea, be that the creation of Facebook, or the sale of ring-tones.

Happy married life, Mark Zuckerberg, though my money is on you trading her in for a sleeker, newer model, at considerable monetary expense, before long.

His life is so planned.
So so master planned.