18 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg is the prodigy who founded Facebook but he has made a lot of software programs and other platforms. Nonetheless, Facebook is the platform that flourished the most and has become an extremely profitable global phenomenon. As a matter of fact, it’s being used by everybody starting from high school students to aspiring government leaders who wanted to reach the audiences to have their votes.

Facts That You Probably Don’t Know About Mark Zuckerberg

To know more about Facebools founder, here are some of the facts that you probable don’t know about Mark Zuckerberg.

Fact #1:

Zuckerberg has made messaging software that’s called Zucknet at a very young age of 12. This software notifies his father’s dentist of the patients’ presence in the waiting room.

Fact #2:

Throughout his time at the Harvard University way back in 2003, Zuckerberg established a ‘hot or not’ website that’s called FaceMash. This is where the users will have to choose the best-looking person from Harvard dorm students’ variety of images.

But then, the college has shut it down within days due to breaking through of security and individual confidentiality as causes. With that incident, Zuckerberg had to publicly apologize.

Fact #3:

Zuckerberg is still lucky since the FaceMash.com was then sold for $30,201 way back in 2010 on the Flippa marketplace.

Fact #4:

His preferred color is blue and that is because the genius suffers from red and green color blindness. Seeing that, it is no wonder that Facebook’s main color is blue.

Fact #5:

Zuckerberg released thefacebook.com from his Harvard dormitory room way back in February 2004. During that time, it has become a platform for college students to stay linked virtually. Later on, Zuckerberg dropped “the” from its name after he moved to Palo Alto, California.

Fact #6:

The owner of Facebook has been tangled in many legal arguments. But then, his longest legal encounter was against the twins, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. They blamed him for stealing their idea of Facebook, but then in year the 2009, they finally ended up the battle with a payment of more than $60 million.

Fact #7:

During Zuckerberg’s time in high school, he co-developed a music application that’s called Synapse Media Player. This could utilize artificial intelligence to examine a user’s music listening customs. Both of the tech giants; Microsoft and AOL offered him millions of dollars to ripen the app further, but he picked to take admission at the Harvard University.

Fact #8:

Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan in 2012. Chan is also a Harvard alumnus and she was among the first few people who joined Facebook in 2004.

Fact #9:

Facebook’s founder believes in charity and this is the reason why he signed the Giving Pledge in 2010, together with other prominent people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. According to the pledge, the person pledges to contribute the majority of his wealth to charity.

Fact #10:

Even though Zuckerberg’s Facebook profile features Orson Scott Card’s sci-fi novel “Ender’s Game”, he stated during an interview that his favorite book is “The Aeneid” by Virgil.

Fact #11:

Way back in 2011, with an assessed wealth of $17.5 billion, he has made it to the Top 20 list of Forbes‘ richest individuals in the United States. He is currently the world’s 5th richest person with an assessed wealth of $56 billion, according to the Forbes 2017 list.

Fact #12:

The billionaire CEO of Facebook had self-designed his wife’s wedding ring that’s priced at $25,000. The ring features a ruby in the middle and diamonds on both sides.

Fact #13:

Zuckerberg has a pet which is a sort of Hungarian Sheepdog that’s named Beast. The fortunate pet has his own Facebook page that has two million page ‘likes’!

Fact #14:

In 2013, Zuckerberg along with his wife donated 18 million shares of Facebook stock to a foundation named Silicon Valley Community. The said shares are worth around $1 billion.

Fact #15:

Based on his official Facebook page, some of his favored musicians are Lady Gaga, Daft Punk, Shakira, and Rihanna.

Fact #16:

“The Social Network,” which is a movie based on Zuckerberg’s life is about the establishment of Facebook. This film was released in 2010 and Jesse Eisenberg played Zuckerberg’s role in the film. The movie acquired the Golden Globe award for Best Motion Picture way back in 2011.

Fact #17:

In 2011, Zuckerberg has turned into a vegetarian. In fact, he stated that he would only eat the meat of the animals that he killed by himself.

Fact #18:

Since Zuckerberg is often wearing his trademark jeans and t-shirt, he topped the roster of GQ’s Worst-Dressed Men of Silicon Valley in 2011.

These are the things you possibly don’t know about Mark Zuckerberg. Hopefully, his success was able to inspire you in achieving your goals and aims in life.