![]() During Zuckerberg's high-school years, he worked to build a music player called the Synapse Media Player. In high school, he built a program that allowed all the computers between his house and his father's dental office to communicate with each other. Zuckerberg began using computers and writing software in middle school. He attended high school at Ardsley High School before transferring to Phillips Exeter Academy. His great-grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Austria, Germany, and Poland. He and his three sisters (Arielle, Randi, and Donna) were raised in a Reform Jewish household in Dobbs Ferry, New York. ![]() Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York to psychiatrist Karen ( née Kempner) and dentist Edward Zuckerberg. On April 10 and 11, 2018, Zuckerberg testified before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation regarding the usage of personal data by Facebook in relation to the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data breach. In 2013, he co-founded the pro-immigration lobbying group FWD.us. The founding of Facebook involved Zuckerberg in multiple lawsuits regarding the creation and ownership of the website as well as issues of user privacy. Zuckerberg's prominence and fast rise in the technology industry has prompted political and legal attention. A film depicting Zuckerberg's early career, legal troubles and initial success with the site, The Social Network, was released in 2010 and won multiple Academy Awards. ![]() As of May 2023, Zuckerberg's net worth was estimated at $85.0 billion according to the Forbes Real Time Billionaires, making him the 14th richest person in the world. In the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans in 2022, he was ranked 11th with a wealth of $57.7 billion, down from his status as the third-richest American in 2021 with a net worth of $134.5 billion. In December 2016, Zuckerberg was ranked tenth on Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People. He was named the Person of the Year by Time magazine in 2010, the same year when Facebook eclipsed more than half a billion users. Zuckerberg has been listed as one of the most influential people in the world on four occasions in 2008, 2011, 20 respectively and nominated as a finalist in 2009, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2020, 20. He has used his funds to organize multiple philanthropic endeavors, including the establishment of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. In 2007, at age 23, he became the world's youngest self-made billionaire. Zuckerberg took the company public in May 2012 with majority shares. Originally launched to select college campuses, the site expanded rapidly and eventually beyond colleges, reaching one billion users in 2012. Zuckerberg attended Harvard University, where he launched Facebook in February 2004 with his roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. He is known for co-founding the social media website Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.), of which he is the executive chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder. Meta’s internal meeting was reported earlier by the New York Times.Mark Elliot Zuckerberg ( / ˈ z ʌ k ər b ɜːr ɡ/ born ( )May 14, 1984) is an American business magnate, computer programmer, internet entrepreneur and philanthropist. Generative AI, technology that creates text and images based on users prompts, has caught the attention of businesses across industries after the popular reaction to the wide release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot. Zuckerberg also encouraged employees to try new ideas at a generative AI “hackathon” the company is planning for July. Internal tools like AI chatbots that employees can message and suggest feedback and a productivity assistant called Metamate that can perform tasks.AI Media Editing: A tool for Instagram stories for people to edit or change their photos with text-based prompts.AI Agents: Chatbots for Messenger and WhatsApp with different personas and usefulness.Zuckerberg and other executives at the meeting walked through specific AI products the company is working on, according to the spokesperson, including: ![]() ![]() Since announcing spending cuts and its AI focus in recent months, investors have flocked to the stock, which has more than doubled this year, closing at $264.58 Thursday in New York. Management jettisoned 10,000 employees in a drawn-out firing process that left the Menlo Park, California-based company without a tech road map and shook employee confidence in the direction for the business, people familiar with the matter have said. ![]()
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