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Personal Life Zuckerberg is still only 34 years old, so the timeline of his personal life is correspondingly short. We discussed his early years in Childhood and Education, so this can only really consider his personal relationships and religion. N…
Political Involvement Politically, Zuckerberg is a pragmatist. He does not appear to have any particularly strong ideological leanings, and as he has never specified his own political views, there are those who would place him in both the conservat…
Philanthropy Be prepared to laugh at yourself. "A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa." Coming from a very ordinary background, and having achieved great thing…
Awards and Accolades Unusually for a billionaire, Zuckerberg hasn't actively courted awards and accolades. He is satisfied with running his company the way he wants to and generating vast sums of money from doing so. But awards have come his way…
Wealth When you do good, you can also earn benefits for yourself. In December 2015, Business Insider magazine estimated Zuckerberg's personal wealth (including his shareholding in Facebook) at $46 billion. He made nearly $12 billion of that wea…
Internet.org The ethics of research is a minefield. "There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and inf…
Acquisitions " In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives, I really try and live the mission of the company and keep everything else in my life extrem…
The Growth of Facebook Even if you are the person with the original idea, you don't have to develop it alone, and should avoid even trying to do so. My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't c…
Facebook Founders LAUNCH YOUR PRODUCTS IN A MARKET YOU UNDERSTAND. To date, Facebook has been more or less a one-man band. It was Zuckerberg's baby. But he wasn't arrogant: he knew that for the project to grow and realize its full potential,…
The Birth of Facebook Be prepared to rework your ideas. "I coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we've funded ever since by putt…
Facebook A formal education at a university will not suit everyone. As we saw in the section on childhood and Education, Zuckerberg was accomplished at computer programming from an early age, and saw it as much as a means of entertainment as somethi…
Introduction At the age of just 31, mark Zuckerberg was worth an estimated $46 billion. He had not inherited his wealth, but made it from scratch in only 12 years, and with the creation of a single product: Facebook Unless you have buried your head i…