Mark Zuckerberg … an active explorer

We youngsters cannot imagine our life without social media. WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and other social media platforms are like needs of them. We explore very new things through social media. We can send photos, audios, videos, files to the person who is far away from us. Social media platforms have made our life easier. But you know a person behind this. Yes you guessed it right. It is “Mark Zuckerberg”.

Mark Zuckerberg is the founder, chairman and CEO of Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York, and was raised in nearby Dobbs Ferry. He was born into a well-educated family and developed an interest in computer programming at an early age.
At the age of 12, Zuckerberg created a messaging program named Zucknet that he implemented as an inter-office communication system for his father’s dental practice.

Due to his early signs of success, his parents got him a computer programming tutor while he was still in high school, and they enrolled him in a prep school in New Hampshire. After graduating from prep school, Zuckerberg enrolled at Harvard University. While many intelligent people attend Harvard University, Mark Zuckerberg became known quickly as the go-to computer programmer on campus. By his sophomore year, he had already built two programs: CourseMatch and FaceMash. Both programs became wildly popular, but the university shut down the latter program after it was deemed to be inappropriate.

Based on his acclaim on campus, Zuckerberg partnered with friends to create a social networking site that allowed Harvard students to connect with each other. The site officially went live in June 2004 under the name “The Facebook,” and Zuckerberg ran it out of his dorm room.

After his sophomore year, Zuckerberg dropped out of college to pursue what was now called Facebook, full-time. The website reached one million users by the end of 2004. This explosion of user growth attracted the attention of many venture capital (VC) firms, and Zuckerberg eventually moved out to Silicon Valley in 2005. Facebook received its first round of venture capital investments from Accel Partners, which invested $12.7 million in the site that was still only open to Ivy League students.

By the end of 2005, however, Facebook had opened up to students attending other schools, causing the website to reach 5.5 million users. Since 2005, Facebook received numerous acquisition offers from the likes of Yahoo and Microsoft, has been through legal battles, and has greatly increased its user base.

On Oct. 30, 2019, Facebook released Q3 earnings. The company reported that daily active users averaged 1.62 billion for September 2019, an increase of 9% year-over-year. Monthly active users totaled 2.45 billion, an increase of 8% year-over-year.4 As of Jan. 30, 2020, the company has a market cap of $598 billion.5 Zuckerberg owns over 375 million Facebook shares and holds 60% of voting rights in the company.

He didn’t stop there only. Facebook bought Instagram in 2012 for $1bn (£760m), and WhatsApp in 2014 for $19bn. The App Annie ranking highlights just how much power and control Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has. The four main apps that Zuckerberg oversees boast more than a billion users each. Mark Zuckerberg has a net worth of $78 billion as of Jan. 29, 2020.

When it comes to influence, Zuckerberg has signed the Giving Pledge, which means he will donate at least 50% of his net worth to philanthropic causes before he dies.

When someone works in the field which is his/her hobby, then things get easier to handle. Mark Zuckerberg is an example of that only. He made his passion as his occupation, and its result is in front of the whole world. So it is very important in life to choose the right path and follow it.
“Do something productive that makes you happy and enjoy whatever you are doing”