Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg was the Harvard computer science student who along with a few friends launched the world's most popular social networking website called ‘Facebook’ in February 2004. Mark Zuckerberg also has the distinction of being the world's youngest billionaire, which he achieved in 2008. He was named "Man of the Year" by Time magazine in 2010. Zuckerberg currently is the chief executive and president of Facebook.

Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York. His father, Edward Zuckerberg is a dentist, and his mother, Karen Zuckerberg is a psychiatrist. Mark and his three

sisters, Randi, Donna, and Arielle, were raised in Dobbs Ferry, New York, a sleepy, well-off town on the bank of the Hudson River.

Mark Zuckerberg attended Ardsley High School, and then transferred to the Phillips Exeter Academy. He excelled in classical studies and science. By his high school graduation, Zuckerberg could read and write: French, Hebrew, Latin, and ancient Greek.

In his second year of college at Harvard University, Zuckerberg met his girlfriend and possible future wife, medical student Priscilla Chan. In September 2010, Zuckerberg and Chan began living together.

Mark Zuckerberg used computers and began writing software before entering high school. He was taught the Atari BASIC Programming language in the 1990s, by his father. Edward Zuckerberg was dedicated to his son's learning and even hired software developer David Newman to give his son private lessons.

While still in high school, Mark Zuckerberg enrolled in a graduate course in computer programming at Mercy College and wrote a software programhe called "ZuckNet," which allowed all the computers between the family home and his father's dental office to communicate by pinging each other. The young Zuckerberg wrote a music player called the Synapse Media Player that used artificial intelligence to learn the user's listening habits. Both Microsoft and AOL tried to purchase Synapse and hire Mark Zuckerberg, However, he turned them both down and enrolled at Harvard University in September 2002.

Mark Zuckerberg attended Harvard University where he studied psychology and computer science. In his sophomore year, he wrote a program he called CourseMatch, which allowed users to make class selection decisions based on the choices of other students and also to help them form study groups.

While at Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook, an internet based social Network. 

His success story was different from others. He even refused billions of dollars, only to achieve what he dreamt of. To become successful isn't easy but if you try success will come to you eventually.