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Mark Zuckerberg Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an extraordinary young entrepreneur, computer scientist and software developer.

He was born on May 14, 1984 in White Plains, New York. His father is a Edward, a dentist and his mother was Karen, psychiatrist. He has Jewish background but he considers himself atheist. He is currently the CEO of Facebook. Mark was able to conceive and implement an idea that has changed the world in a very strong way. As we all know he invented Facebook and launched it on February 4, 2004. He has developed a enormous capital for this investment which is worth 50 billion dollars if the business is made open to public market. The entrepreneur Mark has got the idea of developing the social network, as we call it Facebook, when the School he was learning at the time, Harvard University, got a request from students to create a website which included profiles of students with their photos. Though he has made websites that had similarities with this website before this is the one that gave rise to Facebook. When Mark Zuckerberg started his business he didn't have much. He started out with initial capital of 1000$. As of 2010, the company earns a revenue of about 2 billion dollars. Twin brothers, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss and Diviya Narendra has disputed his ownership of the idea of Facebook. But they settled for 60 million dollars after a court proceedings took place. In 2010 he has been named Person Of The Year on Times magazine.

Presenter Yimesgen Birhanu

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