Mark Zuckerberg

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João Gomes, nº9
José Silva, nº11
Rodrigo Bessa, nº22
 Date and place of birth: May 14, 1984 in New York
Biography Profession: Programmer and entrepreneur
Fortune: 107.5 billion dollars
Controversial Facemash

Zuckerberg and his friends

created Facemash, a
controversial site that
published pictures of female
students and allowed guys to
vote for the one they
considered the most
beautiful.
Facebook
• Initially Facebook was just a photo posting and news
sharing tool from Harvard University, which later
expanded to other universities.
Creation and • In February 2014 Zuckerberg paid 19 billion dollars for
the Whatsapp app.

Acquisitions • Instagram also joined the group in 2012 after it was

bought for a billion dollars.
Zuckerberg's
Enrichment
• Mark Zuckerberg joined the Forbes list,
he was 24 years old and became the
youngest American in the pantheon of the
richest people on the list.
• Time magazine has named Zuckerberg
among the 100 richest and most
influential people in the world.
• In 2016 he was named Person of the Year,
by the Time magazine.
 • While attending Mercy College,
Zuckerberg developed a homemade
messaging program that he named
Other ZuckNet.
• In 2001, at the age of 17, in a school
creations project, the young prodigy created software
capable of tracking the musical preferences
of online users, which he named "Synapse
Media Player".