Mark Zuckerberg Net Worth | Biography, Family & Facts (2021)

Mark owns about 15% of the Facebook total stocks and announced to give away 99% of his wealth in Philanthropy works. The Facebook co-founder is the second Internet entrepreneur next to Jeff Bezos, who had multiplied their wealth using the power of the Internet.

For the last 10 years, the Net worth of Mark Zuckerberg is increasing consistently, as the share price of Facebook rises every year. The social media giant has reached 2.85 Billion active users in the year 2021.

With all the users combined from WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and messenger, Mark Zuckerberg Net worth are going to hit $200 Billion in just a few years. Here is the list of Zuckerberg’s Net worth for the last 10 Year according to Forbes and other reliable sources;

• 2010 Net Worth - $4 Billion

• 2011 Net Worth - $13.5 Billion

• 2012 Net Worth - $17.5 Billion

• 2013 Net Worth - $13.3 Billion

• 2014 Net Worth - $34 Billion

• 2015 Net Worth - $33.4 Billion

• 2016 Net Worth - $55 Billion

• 2017 Net Worth - $71 Billion

• 2018 Net Worth - $61 Billion

• 2019 Net Worth - $69 Billion

• 2020 Net Worth - $85 Billion

Mark Zuckerberg’s Net Worth in 2021:

Mark is the Top 5 richest men on the planet with a Net worth of $133 Billion in 2021(As of July). The covid 19 Pandemic and the lock-down have increased the Net worth of Zuckerberg by almost an additional $70 Billion.

Since 2019 the number of people using Facebook and online services has increased massively. This has boosted the demand for online advertising and eCommerce to boom in just 2 years.

Who is Mark Zuckerberg?

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is the Co-Founder and CEO of the famous Facebook.com, was born in the year 1984 on May the 14th in White Plains, New York. His father is Edward Zuckerberg a dentist by profession and his mother Karen Kempner is a Psychiatrist.

Mark is the only son his parent with three sisters Donna, Randi, and Arielle was raised in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Since he was 12, Zuckerberg started developing a great interest in computers and technology.

He developed a Messaging App called ‘Zucknet’ by using a BASIC programming language called Atari BASIC. His father was so pleased with the work that he even used the app for official work in his dental business.

Because of Mark’s great interest in computers, his parents hired a computer tutor when he was in high school. He was enrolled in a Prep school located in New Hampshire. Mark Zuckerberg got enrolled in Harvard University after he graduated from prep school. He was very much inspired by Bill Gates and his success story biography.

Mark Zuckerberg's Family Biography & Education:

Zuckerberg and his three sisters were raised in a Typical Jewish religion family (reform Jewish). Mark is not just a successful entrepreneur but has always had a happy family life since childhood. His parents were very supportive since his childhood and all three sisters have a great bond.

Edward Zuckerberg (Father):

Edward Zuckerberg was born in the year 1954, and his ancestors are from Austria, Germany, and Poland. He is the father of Mark Zuckerberg and one of the greatest supporters in his life and his early venture into technology.

Edward is also the owner of a whopping 2 Million Facebook shares, and as of 2021 one Facebook share cost around $350 USD. Dr. Edward Zuckerberg is a successful dentist and he is a great promoter of Facebook too.

Karen Kempner (Mother):

Karen Kempner is a successful psychiatrist by profession and the mother of Mark Zuckerberg. She was really supportive to all her children like Edward and had a great relationship with her daughters.

Priscilla Chan (Wife):

Priscilla was born in the year 1985, February the 24th in a place called Braintree, MA, and Chan’s parents are Chinese immigrants from Vietnam. Her parents are Yvonne Chan, Dennis Chan, and she also has two sisters born in the US. Priscilla is a former pediatrician who completed her degree from the University of CA (San Francisco).

Chan speaks three languages, Cantonese, Mandarin, and English also worked as a translator for her grandparents. Pricilla’s parents owned a restaurant in MA, which they later sold to start a wholesale fish company in the year 2006.

She was also good in her studies since childhood and was voted as a "class genius" by her friends and also graduated as a topper in Quincy High School. Priscilla also attended Harvard University where she met Mark Zuckerberg. Mark met Priscilla in 2003 in a strange place, where they were waiting in the line for washroom, in a fraternity party.

Pricilla Chan married Facebook founder Zuckerberg, the day after the site's IPO was announced, which was on. May 19, 2012. She is the one who always supported Mark from the beginning and the couple always had a great relationship. After several years of struggle and miscarriage during pregnancy, Priscilla has two beautiful daughters with Mark.

Maxima Chan Zuckerberg (Daughter):

Maxima Chan Zuckerberg was born in the year 2015, December the 1st and is the first daughter of Mark & Priscilla.

August Chan Zuckerberg (Daughter):

August Chan Zuckerberg was born in the year 2017, august the 28th, and is the 2nd daughter of Mark Zuckerberg.

Donna Zuckerberg (Sister):

Donna Zuckerberg was born in the year 1987, in Dobbs Ferry, NY, and is the third child of her parents. She is the younger sister of Mark Zuckerberg and lives with her husband and two children in Silicon Valley CA.

Donna is an American writer, classicist, feminist, and editor-in-chief of the Eidolon journal, a classics journal that is peer-reviewed. She is also the author of "Not All Dead White Men" book which was published in 2018. The book was about the appropriation of classics by an Internet misogynist group.

Randi Zuckerberg (Sister):

Randi Jayne Zuckerberg was born in 1982 on February the 28th is the elder sister of Mark and is a very successful American businesswoman. Randi is married to Brent Tworetzky and lives in New York City with their two sons.

She completed her graduation from Harvard University and started working for Ogilvy & Mather, which was an advertising firm. In the year 2004, Mark Zuckerberg asked her sister to join Facebook and Randi was serving as a director in the Market development with Facebook.

Later in the year 2011, Randi resigned from Facebook and she founded her own social Media Farm called Zuckerberg Media. After starting the Zuckerberg Media, Randi has produced digital content and many shows for the Clinton Global Initiative, Beach Mint, Cirque du Soleil, Condé Nast, and Bravo, and the United Nations.

Arielle Zuckerberg (Sister):

Arielle Zuckerberg is the youngest of all the four and is the youngest sister of Mark Zuckerberg. Arielle was born in the year 1989, brought up in Dobbs Ferry, NY, and is a great American Venture Capitalist - a private equity investor. She completed her graduation from the Claremont McKenna College, CA in BA Computer science, Philosophy & Public Affairs.

Arielle Zuckerberg is a partner at Coatue Management which is an investment company. She is also currently serving as a board member of Mason (bymason.com).

Early Education of Mark Zuckerberg:

Mark Zuckerberg started his schooling in the Ardsley High School NY and later transferred to Phillips Exeter Academy, NH. Mark was good in his studies and won several prizes in Physics, Mathematics, and Classical Studies.

Zuckerberg was the Captain of his college fencing team, and also he could read, write Hebrew, French, ancient Greek, and Latin. During his middle school, Mark started developing a great interest in computers and programming.

His father Edward Zuckerberg was very supportive of his son’s interest and in 1990 he even teaches Mark, the Atari Basic computer programming. He then got enrolled in the same computer programming course in an institute called Mercy College, NY.

It was in the year 1996, when Zuckerberg turns 12 he built a computer messaging program called Zucknet. The messaging app was used by everyone in the house to communicate and even his father uses it in his dental business.

Mark always had a creative mentality and he even built the Synapse Media Player (music player) while he was working with a company called Intelligent Media Group.

In 2002, Zuckerberg was enrolled into the famous Harvard University, MA in computer science & Psychology. When he was in his 2nd year, Mark wrote a program called Course Match by which allows students to make class selection decisions.

Later in the same year, Zuckerberg created the programming called Face mash just for fun. This app allows people to vote for the best-looking students, by comparing two photos on the webpage.

The site became so popular inside the college campus, ran on the weekend but it was shut down by Monday. It was preventing many students from using the internet and many people were even complaining about using their photos without permission.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Career:

In the year 2004 Mark Zuckerberg drop out of Harvard to further pursue his career in programming. Before enrolling in his studies Mark already had a reputation as a Programming Prodigy by everyone he knows. Because of his passion and determination, he has built world-famous Facebook and co-founded many other companies.

Facebook – A Brief History:

The most famous social media network Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, Chris Hughes, and Andrew McCollum in 2004, Feb 4th. It all started in a college dormitory room, where these young men built the platform out of passion.

At the early stage of Facebook, it was primarily used by college students only. It was mainly used by the students of NY University, Columbia University, Dartmouth, Stanford, University of PA, Cornell, Yale, and Brown.

After the launch of the site in less than 6 months, more than 250k students from 34 colleges join the platform. Unfortunately in the same year 3 seniors from Harvard, Tyler Winklevoss, Cameron Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra filed a lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg.

They accused him of stealing their ideas and later settled for $20 Million plus 1.2 Million Facebook shares. In the year 2004, in December Facebook hit 1 Million users on their platform.

Later in 2006, April Facebook was made available to anyone anywhere above the age of thirteen and made available to mobile users. In 2010, the social media platform reaches the milestone of 500 Million users.

The popularity of the platform attracts millions of businesses and advertisers across the globe for ads on the site. In 2021, the number of Facebook users has reached 1.9 Billion active users.

In the Year 2006, Yahoo offered Zuckerberg $1 Billion to buy Facebook. Mark later explained that it was the hardest decision to make and later denied the offer which was one of his best decisions in life. Mark Zuckerberg Net worth is increasing every year and is currently the top 5 richest man on the planet.

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI):

In the year 2015, on December 1st Mark Zuckerberg and Pricilla Chan announce the launching of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, with the birth of Maxima Chan Zuckerberg. Priscilla Chan is a woman with a great heart for the poor and people who are in need.

The couple also announced to give 99% of their wealth in the form of Facebook shares to the cause of CZI. Some of the greatest goals of the organization are eliminating diseases, Improving educational qualities, and Transforming criminal justice.

The Chan Zuckerberg initiative is the most well-funded and organized Philanthropy organization in the world. Zuckerberg is also the main contributor to the Giving pledge started by Billionaire Warren Buffett along with Bill Gates. One of the greatest goals of the CZI is to eliminate all diseases by the end of the century.

Internet.org:

In August 2013 Zuckerberg launched a project called internet.org which aims to provide internet access to more than 4 billion people across the globe. The project aims to provide internet to rural people in underdeveloped countries.

Internet org is a partnership between Facebook and Samsung, Nokia, Ericsson, Opera Software, MediaTek, Qualcomm. Despite a lot of legal issues in countries like India, Internet.org, the project was launched successfully in many other countries.

Facebook & Whatsapp:

Whatsapp is the most famous real-time instant messaging app today, which was founded by Brian Acton & Jan Koum (Former Yahoo Executives) in 2009. In 2021, Whatsapp has reached the 2 billion active user mark, surpassing the We Chat app with 1.2 Billion and Facebook messenger with 1.3 Billion users.

In the year 2014, Facebook breaks its bank to buy Whatsapp for a whopping $19 Billion in the month of February. The user growth in the platform was incomparable to any other platform ever seen.

In the year 2004, Whatsapp already had 500 Million active users and surprisingly it grows to 1 million new users every single day. The platform was beating any social platforms including Facebook and Instagram in terms of how active the users were. So finally Mark Zuckerberg decided to buy it with a price of $22 Billion approx and take out the potential Facebook Killer #1, besides Instagram.

Facebook & Instagram:

Instagram (IG) which is the most popular photo and video sharing platform was first started in 2010. It was created by Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom, who are computer programmers.

The number of active users on Instagram was increasing massively and it reaches 1 million in just 2 months. Facebook bought the Instagram platform for $1 Billion in the year 2012.

According to an email revealed by the subcommittee of US House antitrust, Mark Zuckerberg and CFO David Ebersman, of Facebook, considered Instagram as a threat. The rapid rise of the popularity of the IG app was considered a threat.

It was accused that to kill any competition, Facebook bought Instagram, which was having just 13 employees at that time. Now IG adds large revenue of around $20 Billion a year to Facebook, which makes the $1 Billion investment one of the Best deals Zuckerberg has ever done.

Oculus VR:

Oculus was founded in the year 2012 by Palmer Luckey, Michael Antonov, Nate Mitchell, and Brendan Iribe founded in Irvine, CA. It is the most famous VR (Virtual Reality) product specialist in the world.

Oculus was bought by Mark Zuckerberg in March 2014 for $2.3 Billion in stocks and cash. The company finally moved to the Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park CA. Interestingly, the company also acquired a British Startup called surreal vision with a goal to develop products with the Telepresence concept and mixed reality with 3D.

The company has also partnered with several major tech giants such as Samsung, Qualcomm, and Xiaomi. The first VR headset, Oculus Rift CV1 was launched in the year 2016, March 28th which includes an infrared tracking system, positional audio, and specialized VR displays.

The name Oculus connect was changed to “Facebook Connect’ in the year 2020, August. Later in October 2020, the company released Ocular Quest 2 which is the most popular VR headset in the world.

Breakthrough Starshot:

The Breakthrough Starshot was founded by Yuri Milner, a Russian- Israeli Physicist, and is a research and engineering project on interstellar Travels. It was first started by Julia & Yuri Milner in the year 2016, with Breakthrough initiatives, and later joined by Mark Zuckerberg & Stephen Hawkins.

Yuri Milner has already invested $100 Million and they want to send a tiny spacecraft to the earth’s closest star Alpha Centauri. The process involves using a giant laser and amplifying its energy for fast travel, which is also known as laser propulsion.

It’s about having a big laser beam and a small spacecraft which will result in a very fast movement. The Alpha Centaury is nearly 4.5 light-years away from the sun. It was in the year 2016, August the scientist discovered that there is an earth-like planet orbiting alpha centaury.

The planet’s name is Proxima B which lies in the habitable zone, and possibilities of liquid water on the planet. The Breakthrough Starshot team plans to travel to the planet, which might take 20-30 years to reach and is estimated to start it by 2035-36.

Movie - 'The Social Network’:

The social network is a movie starring Jesse Eisenberg playing Mark Zuckerberg in his early years of founding Facebook. The movie was released in the year 2010, October the 1st and already won the Golden Globe Award in 2011, January 16 for best pictures.

Rewards & Recognition of Mr. Zuckerberg:

The CEO and the Co-Founder of Facebook have gone through a long journey to achieve the success he has today. Some of the few rewards and recognition of Zuckerberg are:

CEO of the Year Award – 2013:

At the 6th Annual Crunchies 2013, January 31st with the toughest competitors from other tech giants, Mark Zuckerberg won the CEO of the year award. Amongst the nominees were Larry Page (Google), Marissa Mayer (Yahoo), Phil Libin (Evernote), and Dick Costolo (Twitter).

Axel Springer Awards – 2016:

The Axel Springer Corporate communications in Berlin Germany awarded Zuckerberg the award in 2016. He received it because of his innovative invention of Facebook to make life easier in terms of communications through social media.

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