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Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born in the city of White Plains, in New York L⟒at on May 14, 1984. He has three sisters including an elder, Randi and two cadets, Arielle and Donna.From the college, at 12 years old, he was in computer programming, a passion that comes to him from his father.He is the co-founder and the company P.-D.G of the company.

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Mark Zuckerberg begins by learning the Basic and develops his first program: Zucknet, a allowing to communicate on one between the family and his father’s dentist’s office located on the ground floor of the house.In 2003, Mark Zuckerberg developed Facemash, a site whose goal is to compare the advantages of two students and to vote for the most attractive.

With his friends Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, Mark Zuckerberg launches the first version of Facebook- then baptized The Facebook -February 4, 2004. Initially, the site is in a trombinoscope of the Harvard campus enriched with e -mail.In two weeks, half of the students created their profile there.For four months, the site is operated directly from a student room in the campus.Mark Zuckerberg abandons his studies and decides to migrate the company in the Palo Alto region in California.

At the end of 2004, Facebook had a million members.Faced with the success encountered, then sets out on campus, then secondary schools before free access.Thanks to a first fundraising of $ 500,000 by the Business Angel Peter Thiel, at the end of 2005, the service welcomed six million profiles and dethroned Myspace, the mastodon of L⟲oque.

In December 2010, Mark Zuckerberg was elected the person in the magazine Time.That year, as a recognition brand for his spirit of noise, he was added to California Hall of Fame from the Sacramento museum.In 2013, he was listed as the youngest P.-D.G in the Fortune 500 ranking. In 2016, he received the Axel Springer Axel Prize.The next naked, Harvard’s university issued a doctorate Honoris Causa.

Mark Zuckerberg has a patron position, he gave near Dollars to the Foundation Community.He also finances the awards of the scientific prize Breakthrough Prize Upon several million dollars for the winners.With his wife Priscilla Chan, he invests several billion dollars in scientific and medical research.

However, Mark Zuckerberg is not free from criticism.He is notably accused of stolen from Facebook’s very feathery to Harvard student about to launch the HarvardConnection network.The standard was notably portrayed in 2010 in the film The Social Network of the director David Fincher.

Facebook policy led by Mark Zuckerberg is also criticized by many governments, in particular with regard to respect for users’ privacy and platform safety allowing third -party publishers abusive – or even sale – personal data.Facebook was notably pointed out in the heart of Cambridge Analytica.