life of mark zuckerberg

  • birth

    Born on May 14, 1984, in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Comes from a well educated wealthy family, with his father being a dentist and mother being a psychiatrist. He has four brothers and sisters.
  • intersested at an early age

    at the age of 14 zuckerberg wass very interested in computers, he created a message network for his fathers office, and created games to play with his freinds.
  • studies

    zuckerberg attended phillips Exeter Academy an exclusive preparatory school in New Hampshire
  • college

    after phillips acadamy zuckerberg went to havard in the fall
  • interested colleges

    soon after entering harvard fellow students came to him to make a social networking site called harvard connection.
  • going alone

    soon after the harvard connection creators came to him he dropped the project and thrived to make his own site called the facebook, the harvard connection creators sued zuckerberg for stealing their idea, the lawsuit was brought to an end but there is still tension betwwen parties
  • facebook

    in 2004 zuckerberg,Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin launched facebook
  • booming

    by 2005 facebook had over 5.5 million users, zuckerberg turned down many company offers including yahoo and mtv
  • movie

    in 2010 the social network movie was realesed with jesse Eisenberg plays zuckerberg, and is based off the 2003 book "The Accidental Billionaires" by Ben Mezrich
  • billionaire

    Facebook has made zuckerberg the youngest billionaire in the world to date, he is worth 6.9 billion, more than the apple founder steve jobs and lives in Palo Alto, California, with his girlfriend Priscilla Chan, a medical student