1. Biography of Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is a Jewish-American computer programmer and Internet technology entrepreneur. Besides, he is also an internet philanthropist from the US. He was born on May 14, 1984, into a Jewish American intellectual family in the city of White Plains, New York. He is the only son in a family of four sisters. His father, Edward Zuckerberg, works as a dentist while his mother, Karen (née Kempner), is a psychiatrist in New York.

Zuckerberg attended Phillips Exeter Private High School in New Hampshire. He was a standard student and always achieved excellent results. While still in school, young Zuckerberg created an early streaming platform and caught the eye of AOL and Microsoft, but he refused to sell his products.

Mark Zuckerberg has an estimated IQ of 152.
 

During his time there, he earned a number of awards in classical science and research. He also went to the Johns Hopkins Young Talent Center summer camp. Zuckerberg is fluent in French, Hebrew, Latin, and Ancient Greek. He also served as captain of the fencing team at the prep school.

In 2002, Zuckerberg enrolled at Harvard University, where he is known for his programming skills. After his sophomore year, he decided to drop out of school and focus on “The Facebook” – the social network he developed on his own in the Kirkland dormitory.

Before dropping out, Zuckerberg met his future wife, Priscilla Chan, at a fraternity party in the school. Zuckerberg and Chan married on May 19, 2012, in a ceremony that surprised the guests who thought it was just a graduation party for Priscilla Chan.

At the age of 23, Zuckerberg held $1.5 billion and became the youngest billionaire on the planet at that time. His estimated net worth has reached $73.2 billion as of November 19, 2019.

2. What is the IQ of Mark Zuckerberg?

Zuckerberg has an estimated IQ of 152, as reported by several sources. He is considered a genius and is among the top intelligent people in the world. 152 is considered a high score, with 100 representing the average score. Not too many individuals have an estimated IQ of 130 and beyond.

It is not as easy for Zuckerberg to achieve success as many people think. In fact, he went through a lot of hardships and circumstances to get where he is today.

Zuckerberg has been creating software programs since he was in school. His father gave him some early lessons in programming by teaching him Atari BASIC in the 1990s. He successfully wrote a messaging app called “Zucknet” in the Atari BASIC language when he was 12 years old. He also often programmed computer games for his friends. He was later taught by the software developer, David Newman. One of his first shows was Zucknet, considered a forerunner of AOL's Instant Messenger. After that, he attended prestigious schools and carried out useful projects for the community.

While studying at Harvard, Zuckerberg and three friends created a social network called Harvard Connection to help students at the school connect with each other. However, after a while, he left that group and along with three other friends found out and created a social network just for him, which was Facebook. The story that Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to focus on developing Facebook is still well-known to this day. 

Mark Zuckerberg created a social network just for him which was Facebook.
 

Surely, many people still cannot forget the scandal that exposed Facebook’s user information in 2008. This has put Facebook in an extremely difficult situation and quite a lot of financial loss. However, during the hearing, Zuckerberg showed a wise approach. The lesson of dealing with a media crisis comes from the smallest details: His style of dressing.

The style that Zuckerberg brought to his testimony before the US House of Representatives, which was quite opposite to his familiar casual style, could become a standard lesson in crisis communication for business owners. Besides, Zuckerberg did what not all entrepreneurs can do, which was to admit his mistakes and take responsibility for himself. Along with that, the young billionaire also provided information on the basis of steadfastly defending Facebook's business model.

He is considered a genius and is among the top intelligent people in the world.
 

It can be said that few people possess a genius and daring mind like this billionaire. Intelligence with an IQ of 150, simple humility, and decisiveness are the factors that make up Zuck's admirable success.

3. Mark Zuckerberg’s Career and Achievements

After dropping out of Harvard, Zuckerberg moved to Silicon Valley. He, Moskovitz, and some of their friends rented a house in Palo Alto, which became their office. In August 2004, Zuckerberg, Andrew McCollum, Adam D'Angelo, and Sean Parker founded Wireoose, a file-sharing service. However, it had to close before i2hub.

In May 2007, he launched the Facebook platform, an initiative to encourage third-party developers to create apps for Facebook. Entering 2009, Facebook gradually dominated the global market, especially when the smartphone wave exploded, causing a sharp increase in the number of social network users on the phone. Each month, an average of about 1 trillion accesses for Facebook has caused the advertising revenue for this social networking site to increase rapidly. The company's head office was also moved to a new, more spacious facility.

152 is considered a high score with 100 representing the average score.
 

The current version of the Facebook platform was introduced in 2010 with the number of active users on the app subsequently reaching 500 million. In the same year, Zuckerberg was named Person of the Year by Time magazine and topped Vanity Fair's 100 Most Influential People of the Information Age list.

In December 2012, Zuckerberg and his wife announced that during their lifetime, they would dedicate most of their fortune to “advance human potential and promote equality for all children”.

Since 2012, Facebook has acquired the social media platform Instagram. Two years later, the company acquired the mobile messaging app WhatsApp. On May 18, 2012, Facebook issued shares publicly for the first time. The IPO event of this social network received 16 billion USD in investment and became the largest IPO in the history of technology companies up to that time. Most of Zuckerberg's capital is used to invest in big deals like buying Instagram (for $ 1 billion), WhatsApp (for $ 19 billion), and Oculus (for $ 2 billion).

In August 2013, Facebook, Samsung, Ericsson, MediaTek, Opera Software, Nokia, and Qualcomm launched a project called Internet.org. The goal of the project is to open up better and more affordable access to selected internet services in the least developed and developing countries. Zuckerberg met with world leaders, such as the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, and Russian President, Vladimir Putin, to discuss the technology infrastructure in those countries. The same year, he was awarded the CEO of the Year award at the 6th Annual Crunchies.

Intelligence with an IQ of 150 simple humility and decisiveness are the factors that-make up Zuck's admirable success.
 

In December 2015, Zuckerberg and Chan founded the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), with the aim of promoting human potential and promoting equality in areas such as health, education, and scientific and energy research. In an open letter to their daughter, Maxima, Chan and Zuckerberg revealed that they have decided to donate 99% of their Facebook shares to the initiative during their lifetime.

On May 28, 2017, Zuckerberg returned to Harvard and became the youngest graduation speaker. He also received an honorary doctorate from this prestigious university. In June 2017, he reported that Facebook had amassed two billion users. In December 2017, Zuckerberg achieved the dubious distinction of being named the recipient of the Misinformer of the Year award from the progressive media group, Media Matters.

4. 15 surprising facts about Mark Zuckerberg you probably did not know 

• Zuckerberg is a loyal fan of the classic Star Wars series. He even went by the Star Wars name Bar Mitzvah

• Despite being a billionaire, Zuckerberg has a simple and friendly lifestyle. T-shirts and hoodies are his fashion sense. In an interview with The New Yorker in 2010, he said that he mostly searched for accommodation on Craigslist, a popular classifieds site for the middle-class. Tyler Winklevoss, the founder of Winklevoss Capital Management, once said of Zuckerberg in an interview: “He's the poorest rich person I've ever seen in my life.”

Mark zuckerberg has a very simple way of dressing.
 

• Zuckerberg has donated money to education reform and immigration. He supported the Black Lives Matter movement and directed that the aforementioned phrase be written on the company's wall

• The reason Facebook's logo is blue is because Zuckerberg is blind in red and green. He cannot recognize those 2 colors

• Like so many other tech geniuses, Zuckerberg is a huge fan of Apple founder, Steve Jobs. Jobs was the main inspiration for Zuck to write on his name card – his first postcard the very swaggering line: "I'm CEO, bitch"

• Zuckerberg is an activist. In 2016, he once set for himself a goal outside of work to run a distance of 587km. He accomplished half of his goal during the summer

• Zuckerberg's dog is also a celebrity. Beast, his Hungarian sheepdog, has its own Facebook fan page with over 2 million likes. Zuckerberg's eldest daughter, Maxima, is also a fan of Beast. The first word she could say was "dog"

Zuckerberg has used millions of dollars to fund a wide range of philanthropic causes.
 

• Zuckerberg seems to be obsessed with protecting his private life. He always tries his best to make sure his life is completely confidential, even when it comes to financial power and litigation. He bought a piece of land in Hawaii for $100 million in 2014. However, he made residents here extremely uncomfortable when he built a 1.8m high wall around his property, which blocked everyone's sea view. Later, he even nearly sued citizens here thinking they had invaded his privacy when passing through his land. Furthermore, Zuckerberg also attempted to demolish four houses around his home in Palo Alto, California. In 2020, Facebook spent more than $23 million on security costs for the Zuckerberg family only, up from $10 million in 2018 and $13.4 million in 2019

• Zuckerberg is a music lover and fan of many singers of different styles, such as Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Jay Z, Green Day, Rihanna, U2, Katy Perry, and more

• Zuckerberg personally designed a wedding ring for his wife using rubies instead of expensive diamonds. Many people think that Zuckerberg was too stingy to give his wife such a cheap ring. However, it seems that the value of the ring lies on the spiritual side instead of the physical side. Zuckerberg's wife is a Chinese-American. According to Eastern culture, rubies symbolize many good meanings as well as honoring the value of the bearer

• Zuckerberg has many different nicknames. Friends still call him Zuckes while Zuckerberg's mother gave him the nickname Princely. During his time at Harvard, Zuckerberg was once nicknamed "Slayer"

• As the 5th richest billionaire in the world with a fortune of 118 billion USD, however, Zuckerberg said he has no interest in money. In many interviews with the media as well as in some reports, Zuckerberg said that making money is not his primary goal, but connecting the world is what he is aiming for

• Zuckerberg's family is Jewish, but he says he's an atheist. The atheist chart of strength and weakness has similarities to Facebook's Illuminati logo on his hoodie

It can be said that Mark Zuckerberg possesses the genius and daring brain of this billionaire.
 

 

• Zuckerberg can read and write fluently in many languages. He has repeatedly shown an interest in ancient languages, such as Latin. He even speaks Chinese

• There have been many large corporations in the world ready to wait for Zuckerberg to bid on Facebook, from NewsCorp, MySpace, Viacom, Yahoo, NBC, Microsoft to even Google. However, he turned down these offers
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