Mark Elliot "Zuck" Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American entrepreneur who co-founded the social networking site Facebook. Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook with fellow classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while attending Harvard. He is a 24% shareholder of Facebook.
Zuckerberg was born in White Plains, New York to Karen, a psychiatrist, and Edward, a dentist.[3] Mark, along with his three sisters, was raised in Dobbs Ferry, New York. His parents are Jewish, but he considers himself an atheist.
Zuckerberg started programming when he was in middle school. Early on, he enjoyed developing computer programs, especially communication tools and games. He studied at Ardsley High School where he excelled in the classics, before transferring in his junior year to Phillips Exeter Academy where he immersed himself in Latin.
He also designed and programmed a computer application system to help the workers in his father's office communicate; he built a version of the game Risk, and under the company name Intelligent Media Group, he built a music player named the Synapse Media Player that used artificial intelligence to learn the user's listening habits, which was posted to Slashdot and received a rating of 3 out of 5 from PC Magazine. Microsoft and AOL tried to purchase Synapse and recruit Zuckerberg, but he instead went to Harvard College in September 2002 where he joined Alpha Epsilon Pi, a Jewish fraternity, and studied computer science. In his sophomore year at Harvard, he met his current girlfriend, Priscilla Chan. In college, he was known for reciting lines from epic poems such as The Iliad
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