Mark Zuckerberg: A College Dropout To A Billionaire
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Mark Zuckerberg is world's fourth richest person with a net worth of about $155 billion.
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Born in New York in 1984, he started studying Computer Science and Psychology at Harvard University in 2002.
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At Harvard, he started Facebook from his dorm room with three friends in 2004.
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19-year-old Zuckerberg started the site for students to match names with photos of classmates.
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As the site started getting popular, he dropped out of Harvard and moved to Silicon Valley.
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In 2005, he rejected $1 billion offer to sell Facebook to Yahoo.
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With a $1.5 billion net worth, he first appeared in Forbes' World's Billionaire List in 2008.
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His net worth gradually increased and hit $4 billion on the Forbes' 2010 World's Billionaires List.
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In 2012, he acquired photo and video-sharing social networking service Instagram for $1 billion.
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The same year, Facebook sold shares in an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. It was then the biggest technology IPO in history.
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Zuckerberg's social network then crossed the 1 billion users mark in 2012.
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Almost a decade later, he introduced Meta to bring together all apps and technologies under one brand.
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Majority of Zuckerberg's fortune now comes from his stake in Meta platforms.
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