Mark Zuckerberg was born in 1984 in New York and showed an early talent for programming. He created several programs as a child including a messaging program called "Zucknet" for his family. He attended Harvard where he launched Facebook from his dorm room in 2004. Facebook originally started as only for Harvard students but quickly expanded to other colleges and eventually became a global social network open to everyone. Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to focus on Facebook full-time and has since grown it into one of the largest and most used social media platforms in the world. He remains the CEO of Facebook and is one of the richest and most influential people as a result of its success.

1. Mark Zuckerberg – CEO of Facebook
As we all know Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American computer
programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known for co-
creating the social networking site Facebook, today we look closely in
his life and his success story
Mark Zuckerberg was born in 1984 in White Plains, New York to
Karen, a psychiatrist, and Edward Zuckerberg, a dentist. He and his
three sisters, Randi, Donna, and Arielle, were brought up in Dobbs
Ferry, New York.
Zuckerberg is very intelligent from an early age and interested in
programming so he was called "prodigy”.He has an unusual hobby,
Mark spent his free time developing different kinds of computer
programs, especially communication tools and games.
Zuckerberg began using computers and writing software as a child in
middle school. His father taught him Atari BASIC Programming when
he was 12 years old and he created a messaging program called
"Zucknet". His family used Zucknet to talk to each other in the house.
Along with his friends, Mark also created a computer game just for
entertainment.
During Zuckerberg's high school years, under the company name
Intelligent Media Group, he built a music player called the Synapse
Media Player that used artificial intelligence to learn the user's listening
habits, which was posted to Slashdot and received a rating of 3 out of
5 from PC Magazine.
Harvard University Life - COLLEGE WHIZZKID
Zuckerberg moved to California, inspired by another Harvard dropout,
Bill Gates, and the Ivy League college's policy of allowing students to
take indefinite leave.
By the time he began classes at Harvard, he had already achieved a
"reputation as a programming prodigy," notes Vargas.
Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room on
February 4, 2004 with some financial help from his friend Eduardo

2. Saverin. An earlier inspiration for Facebook may have come from
Phillips Exeter Academy, the prep school from which Zuckerberg
graduated in 2002. It published its own student directory, “The Photo
Address Book,” which students referred to as “The Facebook.” Such
photo directories were an important part of the student social
experience at many private schools. With them, students were able to
list attributes such as their class years, their proximities to friends, and
their telephone numbers..
In the initial stages of development the site was purely for students at
Harvard, but Zuckerberg and his companions saw the potential for it to
become increasingly widespread, and so made the decision to make it
available to other students. These were other US universities at first,
but again, the site escaped these boundaries until it became the social
utility that anyone can sign-up to in today's world.
In the summer, Zuckerberg met Peter Thiel who invested in the
company. They got their first office in mid-2004. According to
Zuckerberg, the group planned to return to Harvard but eventually
decided to remain in California. They had already turned down offers
by major corporations to buy out Facebook
In August 2005, thefacebook was officially called Facebook and the
domain facebook.com was purchased for $200,000.
Facebook launched a high-school version in September 2005. At that
time, high-school networks required an invitation to join. Facebook
later expanded membership eligibility to employees of several
companies, including Apple Inc. and Microsoft. Facebook was then
opened on September 26, 2006, to everyone of age 13 and older with
a valid email address.
Traffic to Facebook increased steadily after 2009. More people visited
Facebook than Google for the week ending March 13, 2010.
Release of statistics by DoubleClick showed that Facebook reached
one trillion pageviews in the month of June 2011, it became the most
visited website in the world.
In 2010, Zuckerberg was named Time magazine's Person of the Year.
As of 2011, his personal wealth was estimated to be $13.5 billion.

3. Zuckerberg has been portrayed as a detached, cold and calculating
internet visionary in the Golden Globe award-winning film The Social
Network; however the accuracy of several incidents has been
disputed. Recently, Zuckerberg became a signatory to The Giving
Pledge, committing to donate most of his wealth to philanthropic
causes.
He is said to be one of the youngest self made billionaire.
And do you know why Facebook ‘s color is blue??? That ‘s a surprise
for you because Zuckerberg is a color blindness boy. He can’t see red
and green color.
Here is some inspirational words from him:
"I'm trying to make the world a more open place."
- Mark Zuckerberg.