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Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, is no doubt a great person.
Through his popular social media platform, this tech guru has given value to the popular saying: “The world is a small village”.
In his first visit to Sub-Saharan Africa, the man who is rated the 7th richest man in the world spent two days in Lagos, before visiting Kenya, and later returning to Nigeria to meet President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja.
Here are 20 things you probably didn’t know about him.
HE NAMED AFTER HIS GRANDFATHER
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He was named after Marco, his Bulgarian maternal grandfather, who migrated to the United States in the 1940s.
HE HAS 3 SISTERS
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HOW HIS PROGRAMMING JOURNEY BEGAN
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At age of 12 years, he built ZuckNet, a software programme which allowed all the computers between the house and his father’s dental office to communicate.
HE IS COLOURBLIND
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According to The New Yorker, Zuckerberg is red-green colourblind, which means the colour he can see best is blue.
“Blue is the richest color for me. I can see all of blue,” he told the magazine.
YOU CAN’T BLOCK HIM ON FACEBOOK
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No one can block him on Facebook. You want to try?
THE CODE THAT MAKES HIS NAME APPEAR
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Zuckerberg’s programmed his own trick into Facebook. If you type @[4:0] in the comment box, his name will appear. A trial will convince those in doubt.
HE IS NOT ACTIVE ON TWITTER
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Zuckerberg’s Twitter handle is @finkd. He has 423,000 followers, and he’s following 819 people. He has posted only 19 tweets, the last being on January 18, 2012. It goes without saying, right?
HE MET HIS WIFE IN A QUEUE
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He met Priscilla Chan, his wife, while she was waiting in line for the bathroom at a party. That was in 2003, and nine years later they got married.
Like Mark, the daughter of Chinese-Vietnamese refugees, is a graduate of Harvard.
She joined Facebook on February 5, 2004, the day after it was launched, becoming one of the first set of persons to do so.
HIS WIFE IS THE FIRST GRADUATE IN HER FAMILY AND IS A MEDICAL DOCTOR
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She is the first in her Chinese-American family to graduate from university. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard and graduated as a paediatrician from the University of California, the third-best medical school in the United States.
Priscilla is the eldest of three girls, with an eight-year age gap between her and her youngest sister.
SHE SUFFERED 3 MISCARRIAGES
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In July last year, Zuckerberg announced that his wife had suffered three miscarriages.
He also went on to say that they would be expecting a child.
“Priscilla and I have some exciting news: we’re expecting a baby girl!” he wrote on Facebook.
“This will be a new chapter in our lives. We’ve already been so fortunate for the opportunity to touch people’s lives around the world — Cilla as a doctor and educator, and me through this community and philanthropy.
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“Now we’ll focus on making the world a better place for our child and the next generation.”
On December 1, 2016, they welcomed their daughter.
DONATION TO CHARITY
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In 2013, Zuckerberg and his wife donated 18 million shares of Facebook stock to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. The shares were valued at around $1 billion.
DEATH RUMOUR
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In 2012, Global Associated News published the rumour that Zuckerberg died in a car crash.
The publication, which has developed a reputation for spreading false reports about celebrities’ deaths, claimed that alcohol was a factor in the death.
The report read: “Mark Zuckerberg died in a single vehicle crash on Route 80 between Morristown and Roswell. He was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics responding to the vehicle accident and was identified by photo ID found on his body. Alcohol and drugs do not appear to have been a factor in this accident – April 28, 2014.”
ZUCKERBERG’S ‘INFLUENTIAL’ DOG
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HE IS AN ATHEIST
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‘POOREST RICH PERSON’
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Someone once described him as “the poorest rich person I’ve ever seen in my life”, living like a student in rented houses even though he was worth billions.
His family home has remained the same for decades, with little furniture, a small kitchen and the only obvious luxury a row of theatre style seats in front of a big TV.
RATED THE WORST DRESSED
Based on his trademark jeans and tee shirt, Zuckerberg topped the list of GQ’s Worst-Dressed Men of Silicon Valley in 2011.
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Three years later, during a Q& A session, Zuckerberg said he often wears jean and tee shirts because of the nature of his schedule.
He said even small decisions like choosing what to wear or what to eat for breakfast could be tiring and consume energy, and he didn’t want to waste any time on that.
“I really want to clear my life to make it so that I have to make as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve this community,” Zuckerberg said, after clarifying that he had “multiple same shirts.”
GAVE HIS FATHER 2 MILLION SHARES IN FACEBOOK
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As at 2012, his father had not touched the two million shares in Facebook, which his son gave him as a thank you for helping him set up the business, a gift he initially refused but eventually accepted.
They were worth around $60 million back then.
Ed Zuckerberg said even though Mark had done well, he did not really know what he had done so right as a parent.
FAMILY MEMBERS REFUSED TO STOP WORKING
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Arielle was a product manager for San Francisco based marketing firm Wildfire Interactive. Dona, the second sister, Donna, ran a food blog and was doing a PhD at Princeton University, while Randi, the final sibling, had been married to college sweetheart Brent Tworetzky, with a baby named Asher and was making a reality TV show about the San Francisco Bay Area tech scene.
HE IS THE LOWEST PAID FACEBOOK EMPLOYEE
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Since 2013, the billionaire draws an annual wage of just $1 as the CEO of Facebook, making him the company’s lowest-paid employee.
HIS ONLY ADVICE FOR FRIENDS
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What advice does he have to offer? “All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.”
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