Mark Zuckerberg

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Mark Elliot Zuckerberg [ mɑɹk_ˈɛli̯ət ˈzʌkʰɚbɚg ] (born May 14, 1984 in White Plains , New York ) is an American entrepreneur and founder . He is the founder and CEO of the company Facebook Inc. and stops this accounted for 28 percent.

Life

Zuckerberg grew up in Dobbs Ferry (New York), his father Edward is a dentist , his mother Karen a psychotherapist . He has three sisters: Randi (* 1982), Donna (* 1987) and Arielle (* 1989). He has German , Austrian and Polish ancestors and comes from a Jewish family . At Harvard University studied Zuckerberg computer science and psychology , then he became a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi , active in several countries fraternity . In 2004 he founded Facebook with three Harvard fellow students and gave up his studies without a degree in 2006 (he received an honorary doctorate in 2017 ).

He married Priscilla Chan on May 19, 2012, the day after Facebook went public. In 2015 and 2017 their children were born. The family lives in Palo Alto .

capital

According to the Forbes 2020 list, Zuckerberg's net worth is approximately $ 78 billion. This puts him in 7th place on this list of the richest people in the world .

Donations and investments

In September 2010, it was announced that Zuckerberg is donating $ 100 million to schools in the city of Newark, New Jersey , and is seeking to establish an educational foundation . In December 2010, Zuckerberg pledged his participation in The Giving Pledge, pledging that much of his wealth would be donated to charity.

In December 2012, Mark Zuckerberg donated 18 million shares of Facebook, worth approximately $ 500 million, to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. The money is intended to support new projects in the fields of education and health.

On December 2, 2015, with the birth of his daughter, it was announced that Zuckerberg would transfer 99 percent of his Facebook shares, which at that time were worth 45 billion US dollars, to an organization called the "Chan Zuckerberg Initiative" with the legal form a limited liability company . In April 2016, Facebook announced “a new stock exchange arrangement”.

On September 22, 2016, Zuckerberg and Chan announced that they would donate $ 3 billion to the fight against disease over the next ten years. The money is to be used to finance and actively support a project by neuroscientist and genetics expert Cornelia Bargmann .

Facebook

In 2004, as a student, Mark Zuckerberg founded the social network Facebook with Dustin Moskovitz , Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin . Before that he tried some other internet projects.

Awards

On December 15, 2010 New York Time Magazine named Zuckerberg " Person of the Year ". On February 25, 2016, he was the first recipient of the Axel Springer Award , an innovation award from Axel Springer SE . In 2011 he received the Austrian Big Brother Award , a negative price for data protection . In 2017 he was awarded the Harvard University , the honorary doctorate .

Position on the function of social networks

When asked that Twitter did a fact check in May 2020 on a Donald Trump tweeted allegation , Zuckerberg assessed it as an arbiter of the truth of what people were saying online. He is convinced that private companies, especially platform operators like Facebook and Twitter, should not play such a role.

Others

  • In October 2010, the film The Social Network , which is based on the genesis of Facebook and Zuckerberg's life, premiered.
  • Mark Zuckerberg auctioned his domain FaceMash.com on November 20, 2010 on the auction service Flippa for around 30,000 US dollars.
  • In January 2013 it was announced that Facebook was testing a special spam filter for Mark Zuckerberg. This is based on the requirement that people must pay up to $ 100 to send a message to the founder of the network that is not automatically sorted. The corresponding function was only activated for users from the United States , German users could not use it.
  • Zuckerberg is red-green-blind and has therefore chosen blue as the Facebook color.
  • Zuckerberg is one of the founders of the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences , currently the most valuable award in the world.
  • Zuckerberg is an advocate of an unconditional basic income .

literature

Web links

Commons : Mark Zuckerberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Mark Zuckerberg  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Facebook prospectus leaves questions unanswered. Manager Magazin , February 2, 2012, accessed January 13, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Randi Zuckerberg. Retrieved September 27, 2017 .
  3. ^ Yaniv Halili: Changing His Status . In: 7 Days, Yedioth Ahronoth , issue # 2408 , March 19, 2010, pp. 94-100. 
  4. ↑ Time's Person of the year is AEPi Brother Mark Zuckerberg ( Memento from February 23, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10102276573729791&set=a.529237706231.2034669.4&type=1&theater
  6. ↑ Mark Zuckerberg becomes a father for the second time
  7. ↑ https://www.forbes.com/profile/mark-zuckerberg/#72ee1e683e06
  8. ↑ Mark Zuckerberg. In: Forbes. Retrieved March 19, 2016 .
  9. ^ Richard Pérez-Peña: Facebook Founder to Donate $ 100 Million to Help Remake Newark's Schools. In: The New York Times . September 22, 2010, accessed February 7, 2012 .
  10. ↑ Zuckerberg wants to donate half of his fortune. In: Zeit Online . AFP , December 9, 2010, accessed January 13, 2013 .
  11. ↑ Mark Zuckerberg donates $ 500 million. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 19, 2012, accessed January 13, 2013 .
  12. ↑ Facebook boss Zuckerberg wants to donate assets. In: heute.de . dpa, AP, AFP , December 2, 2015, archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; accessed on December 2, 2015 .
  13. ^ Facebook's CEO and wife to give 99 percent of shares to their new foundation. In: reuters.com . Reuters, December 2, 2015, accessed December 2, 2015 .
  14. ↑ FAZ.net / Michael Hanfeld April 30, 2016: Do you already have a share certificate? After the birth of his daughter, it appeared that Mark Zuckerberg was giving up his Facebook shares. But now it becomes clear that he doesn't mean it. This CEO has special ideas about selflessness.
  15. ↑ Zuckerberg wants to donate three billion dollars . n-tv. September 22, 2016. Retrieved September 22, 2016.
  16. ↑ Mark Zuckerberg On Innovation - 1 , Mark Zuckerberg on Innovation - 2 , as text: Mark Zuckerberg On Innovation , businessinsider.com, October 1, 2009
  17. ^ Stan Schroeder: "Time" Names Mark Zuckerberg Person of the Year. In: Mashable. December 15, 2010, accessed January 13, 2013 .
  18. ↑ Axel Springer creates the Axel Springer Award - Mark Zuckerberg is the first prize winner. axelspringer.de, January 26, 2016
  19. ↑ Big Brother Awards: The winners have been announced. futurezone.at, October 26, 2011
  20. ↑ Mark Zuckerberg gives the anti-Trump. Retrieved May 27, 2017.
  21. ↑ a b DER SPIEGEL: Zuckerberg criticizes Twitter for comments on Trump's tweets - DER SPIEGEL - politics. Retrieved May 28, 2020 .
  22. ^ Andreas Borcholte: Facebook film "The Social Network" - socio godfather. In: Spiegel Online . September 25, 2010, accessed February 7, 2012 .
  23. ^ Gregor Tholl: Film epic on Facebook: No sweet sugar mountain. In: Heise.de . dpa , September 25, 2010, accessed on February 7, 2012 .
  24. ↑ Zuckerberg is auctioning his problem website. In: Tages-Anzeiger . November 20, 2010, accessed on February 7, 2012 (Facemash.com got Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in trouble seven years ago. It has now been auctioned for around $ 30,000.).
  25. ^ Yvonne Ortmann: Facebook: A message to Zuckerberg costs you 100 dollars. In: t3n magazine . January 11, 2013, accessed January 13, 2013 .
  26. ↑ Steffi Morcinek: The true world of Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg. In: Bild.de . October 10, 2009. Retrieved October 23, 2009 .
  27. ↑ Kim Rixecker: Alaska trip convinces Mark Zuckerberg even more of a basic income. In: t3n.de. July 6, 2017, accessed March 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Zuckerberg, Mark
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zuckerberg, Mark Elliot (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH White Plains , New York