Apart from becoming the world’s youngest (at 23) self-made billionaire in 2007, he is the only person under 50 in Forbes’ 10 richest people list in 2018.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg turns 35 today. Zuckerberg, who became the youngest billionaire in the world at the age of 23 in the year 2008 is one of the most recognizable CEOs in the world.
The technology entrepreneur started Facebook at Harvard when he was just 19. Apart from becoming the world’s youngest (at 23) self-made billionaire in 2007, he is the only person under 50 in Forbes’ 10 richest people list in 2018.
On his birthday, take a look at 10 interesting and lesser known facts about Mark Zuckerberg...
1. He became the youngest billionaire at 23
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At 23 years of age, Zuckerberg became the youngest billionaire in the world in the year 2008, according to a Forbes estimate. He was ranked 785 on the World’s Billionaires list.
2. Zuckerberg is color blind
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The reason Facebook is blue, is because Zuckerberg is color blind. He suffers from red/green colour blindness and can see the blue best.
3. He is Harvard drop out!
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He was approached by several companies with job offers (including AOL and Microsoft) before he even graduated high school, but Zuckerberg turned them all down and decided to go to Harvard University. He eventually dropped out of Harvard University to devote himself full-time to Facebook.
4. Mark Zuckerberg turned vegetarian in 2011
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Mark Zuckerberg turned vegetarian in 2011 and stated that he would only eat meat of animals if he killed the animal himself.
5. Mark's dog Beast has 2 million fans on Facebook
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He has a Hungarian sheepdog named Beast, which has a Facebook page with over 2 million fans.
6. He is most followed user on Google+
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In July 2011, he became the most followed user on Google's social network Google+, surpassing its co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin!
7. He wears the same grey Facebook T-shirt almost every day
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He wears the same grey Facebook T-shirt almost every day because he's busy and believes that it saves him time in the morning. However, in 2009, he said he wore a tie every day to show that the company was serious about growing in the face of the global recession.
8. He is not active on Twitter but has 220,000 followers
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He isn’t very active on Twitter, and yet, has over 220,000 followers despite the fact that he's only tweeted 19 times in four years.
9. He is fluent in Chinese
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In order to be able to communicate with his then girlfriend, and now wife, Priscilla Chan’s family members, Zuckerberg learned Chinese in 2010!.
10. You can’t block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook
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And, you can’t block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook.
