Mark Zuckerberg
1984 – ? American entrepreneur, Meta founder
Facebook founder who leads Meta and its social platforms.
- Religion
- Raised Jewish; once described himself as atheist, later said faith matters.
- Affiliations
- Founded Facebook, now Meta Platforms; controls Instagram and WhatsApp; runs the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative with his wife Priscilla Chan.
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg founded Facebook in his Harvard dorm in 2004. He built it into the world's largest social network and renamed the parent company Meta in 2021 to focus on the metaverse and AI. He and his wife run a major philanthropic effort.
Connections
- ally of Marc Andreessen — Longtime Meta board member and adviser.
- associate of Peter Thiel — Thiel was Facebook's first outside investor and board member.
In the timeline
- 2004 Founding of Facebook mentioned
- 2004 Facebook founded mentioned