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Can you please write about Mark Zuckerberg and open with great information about him but move thematically rather than chronologically.
Mark Zuckerberg , full name as Mark Elliot Zuckerbergis, a philanthropist and a well known technology entrepreneur of USA , globally known for co-founding and running social networking plateform Facebook as its chairman and CEO. The world get surprised by his announcement on the birth of his daughter , thet he had given away 99% of his Facebook shares, market value nearly $45 billion as on date, for charity work during his lifetime.
Facebook , the one of biggest social media plateform , was launced on February 4, 2004, from his Harvard dormitory room.The Facebook plateform was used for posting things of Harvard university and other institutions. In year 2005, company received a big boost from the venture fund Accel Partners. The fund invested approx $12.7 million in the grwoing network business. The membership on the site's crossed the mark of 5.5 million by end of December 2005. From the day till now , he never looked back.
On May 24, 2007, he announced a development open platform for programmers across the globe to create social applications within Facebook. On November 6, 2007, Beacon, a social advertising system has started to enabel users to share any information with their friends even on other sites.The Internet.org project were started in late August 2013 to provide easy acess to internet to internet neutral populations.
Zuckerberg met many world famous leaders and persons like Narendra Modi, Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai , to explore new dimensions for providing affordable internet services to the citizens of under developed countries.
He also faced many lawsuits , like ConnectU lawsuits , some students from Harvard university accused him for helping him to build a social network called HarvardConnection.com (later called ConnectU).
Saverin lawsuit: Eduardo Saverin filled case against Facebook and Zuckerberg, and got out of court settlement. The company affirmed Saverin's title as co-founder of Facebook.
Many incidences , where he appread in public to tell about his story of success to public .