Few live as fortunate as Mark Zuckerberg, a 38-year-old programmer who went from being a Harvard dropout prodigy to being the face of Meta, formerly Facebook, a game-changing social media and technology empire on the Internet.
A report published on the website of ok diary He shared nine curiosities about Zuc’s life.
Nine curiosities about the creator of Meta
- Mark Zuckerberg started programming when he was 12 years old and came to create a messaging program in his teens that his father used in his dental clinic.
- His parents hired a programming tutor to work with him, who even confessed that it was very difficult to do it because Zuckerberg had a very high level, much higher than his. He defined it as “a true prodigy.”
- Before graduating from school, he received major job offers, including from Microsoft and AOL, but he turned them all down because he wanted to continue his studies.
- Mark Zuckerberg only eats meat from animals he has killed himself. Thanks to that, he learned a lot about animal husbandry and sustainable agriculture.
- The creator of Meta is known for having left his studies at Harvard University in the second year to be able to dedicate himself to his company.
- When the social network began to be successful, many companies such as MTV and Yahoo! They wanted to advertise, but Zuckerberg turned them all down.
- Zuckerberg is married to Priscilla Chan, whom he met at Harvard and with whom he has two daughters together. When he got married, her guests were told that they were going to celebrate her graduation, in Medicine, and when they arrived from her they found out that it was actually her wedding. Nobody knew.
- He likes to donate money to multiple causes, especially children’s. He gave $100 million to bail out the Newark, New Jersey public school system.
- In 2019, despite having left Harvard, he managed to graduate in Computer Science from the same university. He was in charge of giving the closing speech of the course.