Mark Zuckerberg

Some Lesser Known Facts About Mark Zuckerberg

• Does Mark Zuckerberg smoke?: Not Known

• Does Mark Zuckerberg drink?: Yes

• Mark Zuckerberg started programming at a young age–when he was only 12 years old, he created a messaging program that his father used in his dental office, allowing the receptionist to notify him of new patients without shouting across the office.

• His parents hired a computer tutor to work with the young Zuckerberg, but the tutor soon realized that it was very difficult to stay ahead of his pupil, referring to him as a “prodigy.”

• Zuckerberg was approached by several multi-national companies with job offers (including AOL and Microsoft) before he even graduated high school, but Zuckerberg rejected them all.

• Zuckerberg built a product called ZuckNet, just for his family. His father was able to send an instant message to anyone in the house and visa versa. It was, essentially, an early version of AOL’s Instant Messenger.

• Mark co-founded Facebook along with three other college mates and fellow students: Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.

• Facebook is blue because Zuckerberg is red-green color blind. “Blue is the richest color for me. I can see all of blue,” Once he told ABC News.

• Zuckerberg started dating Priscilla Chan in 2003. She’s from Boston and the daughter of Chinese-Vietnamese refugees.

• “The Social Network” is a movie based on his life.

• Since 2011, Zuckerberg has been a vegetarian and once said he would only eat meat if he has killed the animal himself.

• Zuckerberg owns a Hungarian sheepdog named Beast, who has a Facebook page with 1.5 million fans.

• As per the Forbes estimate, at 23 years of age, Zuckerberg became the youngest billionaire in the world in the year 2008.

• Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to donate half of his wealth over the course of his lifetime.

• In May 2023, he won gold and silver medals at his very first Brazilian jiu-jitsu tournament in Redwood City, California. According to Zuckerberg, he took up an interest in the sport early on in the Covid-19 pandemic. ^[2]The Guardian While sharing a post on Instagram, the Facebook and Meta founder said,
  

  Competed in my first jiu-jitsu tournament and won some medals for the Guerrilla Jiu Jitsu team.”