Mark Zuckerberg

He took the world by storm by launching the biggest and the most successful social networking site that brought families, friends and old acquaintances nearer. Mark Zuckerberg is just 26 years old and he is already a billionaire!! Zuckerberg has proved to the world that age doesn’t matter when it comes to being original and having faith in yourself.

Zuckerberg co-founded the social networking site Facebook with his fellow classmates from Harvard. As of the year 2010, he was a 24% shareholder of Facebook. Born in White Plains, New York to a psychiatrist mother and a dentist father, he along with his three sisters, was brought up in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Raised a Jewish, Mark also became a Bar Maitzvah as a child, even though he considers himself an out and out atheist.

Zuckerberg was never short of talent and he launched Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room on February 4, 2010. A graduate from the Phillips Exeter Academy, a private high school, Zuckerberg might have got inspired from their student directory, “The Photo Address Book” which was often called ‘The Facebook” by fellow students. It listed their class years, proximities to friends and their telephone numbers and formed an important part of the student life in many schools.

Zuckerberg started Facebook as just a “Harvard” thing while it college. However, he decided to spread it to other schools as well, enlisting the help of his roommate Dustin Moskovitz. Initially starting it at Stanford, Dartmouth, Columbia, New York University, Cornell, Brown and Yale, Zuckerberg soon spread it across to other schools as well who had social contacts at Harvard. It has been well reported that Facebook reached the 500 million-user mark on July 21, 2010. Undoubtedly, this young man brought about a success on the social platform which is unparalled and seems to stop@nothing to become bigger ever passing day.