Who is Mark Zuckerberg and why is he famous?

If you are passionate about something to the point of not thinking about how much you could earn if it were your job, then you are guaranteed success. Mark Zuckerberg has a passion and he knew it since he was a child, he loves programming, which is why he became the richest young man in the world.

According to Forbes in 2021, Mark Zuckerberg with only 36 years old is ranked number 5 of the richest men in the world, his capital is $97 Billion dollars. And in addition to owning Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, he owns 80 other technology companies including: CrowdTangle, Atlas Advertsier Suite., Ascenta and CTRL-Labs.

Part of Mark Zuckerberg’s success is that he has always remained an authentic person. This led him to follow his passion on his own path, so he was not influenced by the ideas of others. He is simply himself and this is key for today’s entrepreneurs.

What is Mark Zuckerberg famous for?

Mark Zuckerberg not only became famous for creating the most important social network in the world, but also for being a visionary, ambitious and determined young man.

“When I started the site, I was 19 years old and didn’t know much about business back then, but I started… In a world that is changing really fast, the only strategy that guarantees failure is not taking risks.”

From an early age Mark Zuckerberg made it clear what his passion was: computers. At the age of 12, he taught himself to program and created a basic instant messaging system.

He lived his adolescence like any other boy of his age, but always maintained his fascination for computers. So while studying he continued to work on the development of new programs as a hobby.

During his last years of high school he created a first version of the music software “Pandora” called Synapse Media Player. It attracted the interest of several companies, including AOL and Microsoft who expressed interest in buying the program.

And although they tried to hire the teenager to work on the development of the program, but he refused all offers and released the program code. Zuckerberg’s goal: to get into the prestigious Harvard University.

Zuckerberg gained admission to his dream university in 2002. And in just two years, he developed a reputation as the most experienced software developer on campus.

At the age of 19, young Mark developed Facemash, an application with the intention of creating a connection network among university students, and in a short time it went viral.

A year later and with more experiences together with his roommates he created The Facebook, a social platform with the mission of facilitating connections between people.

The Facebook quickly grew in popularity and spread to other universities, reaching 1 million users by the end of the year.

Their ambition led them to project themselves beyond the universities and they expanded their frontiers not only to the United States but to all the countries of the world.

And so, in 2008 Mark Zuckerberg at the age of 23 became a billionaire and his company was leading an unprecedented digital revolution.

A passion turned into a business

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is a digital entrepreneur who was born into a Jewish family on May 14, 1984 in White Plains, New York.

Young Mark grew up in the nearby town of Dobbs Ferry, where his father, Edward Zuckerberg, was a dentist and his mother, Karen, worked as a psychiatrist before the birth of the couple’s four other children.

It was very clear first and foremost that Mark had a spark and demonstrated it with incredible discipline and intelligence. He was at the top of his class in his school and won prizes in different subjects, such as mathematics and physics. But, his greatest passion was computers.

At the age of 12, after learning basic programming in a self-taught way, he created “Zucknet”. Using an Atari Basic system, he programmed a simple instant messaging program that he named after the family name.

His family was impressed and fascinated by the program, and his father decided to use it in his practice. Since he found it easier to use Zucknet at the reception than to call the dentists with shouting and screaming.

His mother and siblings also used it within their home to communicate from different locations.
Mark’s talent was overflowing, so his parents decided to hire a tutor to teach him once a week about computers. To take extracurricular courses at nearby Mercy College.

His ability to learn quickly, during his adolescence, allowed him to master languages such as French, Hebrew, Latin and Ancient Greek.

Zuckerberg attended Phillips Exeter Academy, an exclusive high school. There he had the opportunity to show his talent for fencing, and excel in literature, earning a diploma for studying the classics. However, he never gave up his passion for computers, and continued to work on developing new programs as a hobby.

That is why he developed the music software “Synapse Media Player, which exposed his talent to important companies, and helped him get into Harvard, the college of his dreams. And where he would later develop his great project, Facebook.

Facebook today is one of the largest and most powerful technology companies in the world. It has more than 2.5 billion users, revenues in excess of $70 billion annually and a market value of more than $260 billion.

Mark Zuckerberg has always been authentic, he believes in himself and what he does. That’s why he never let an offer buy him, he knew he could get more on his own.

“People can be very smart or have skills that are applicable, but if they don’t believe in it, then they’re not going to work really hard.”

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