He capitalized on the college experience and earned himself, as of March 2012, a sweet $17.5 BILLION doing it. He’s the poster child of college-dropouts everywhere and will continue to make everyone under 30 feel like a complete LOSER. Yup, he’s Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of the addictive social network Facebook, and he just happens to be celebrating his 28th birthday today!
As of March 2012, Forbes ranked him #35 on their ‘Top Billionaires’ List (#16 in the US), #9 on their ‘Most Powerful People’ list and #14 on the ‘Forbes 400’. The closest billionaire buddies to make the same lists are 10 years his senior – earning Zuckerberg the #1 spot as the youngest member of the Billionaires club across the globe. And this is all before Facebook introduced itself to the stock market as an IPO this week. Imagine how much Zuckerberg, who owns 24% of the company, will earn after all of that?!
BOOKOO BUCKS!
But let’s not focus on his pockets, shall we? Zuckerberg is actually a regular Joe just like the rest of us. No seriously, he is. He might live a little more luxuriously than the lot of us, but he puts his pants on one leg at a time just like we do. And to prove to you just how ordinary he can be, we comprised a list of 10 interesting and funny facts about the “slayer” that just might put things in perspective for you.
Take a look below!
10. Several of Zuckerberg’s nicknames include “Zuck” (friends and co-workers), “Princely” (mother dearest) and “Slayer” (Harvard University campus).
9. Mark is actually very shy and reserved in real life.
8. Mark was treated to a Star Wars-themed Bar Mitzvah.
7. Mark and Lady Gaga attended the same geek camp together, Center for Talented Youth.
6. Zuckerberg took up fencing in high school and was MVP.
5. Mark was once held up at gun point at a gas station!
4. Zuckerberg can read and write in five different languages.
3.. Mark wears his trademark rubber sandals to board meetings.
2. Mark Zuckerberg's interest in programming developed when his parents gifted him the book C++ for Dummies
1. Facebook is blue because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind. Blue is the color he sees best; therefore, the predominant color on all Facebook pages is blue.
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