Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who will control 55.8% of the company when it lists later today, will be worth $19 billion when the company debuts on Nasdaq.
Zuckerberg, who is 28 - having celebrated his birthday on 14 May - founded the social network in 2004 and lives in California. Some $2 billion of his earnings on listing will go towards a tax bill.
According to Wikipedia, Zuckerberg was born in 1984, in White Plains, New York, to Karen, a psychiatrist, and Edward Zuckerberg, a dentist. He and his three sisters, Randi, Donna and Arielle, were brought up in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
Zuckerberg started studying at Ardsley High School, in 1998, and then moved to Phillips Exeter Academy, in 2000. In 2002, he went to Harvard University, where he studied computer science and psychology, and launched Facebook from his dormitory room in 2004. He left the tertiary institution the same year.
Last year, according to Zuckerberg's Facebook profile, he became vegetarian, apparently challenging himself to only eat meat he kills, and the year before that he started learning Mandarin Chinese. In 2009, he claims to have worn a tie for the whole year.
Wikipedia says Zuckerberg sees blue best, because of red-green colourblindness; blue is also Facebook's dominant colour.
Among his favourite quotes, listed on his Facebook profile, are “Fortune favours the bold”, from Virgil, Aeneid X.284, and “all children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up”, by Pablo Picasso, and “make things as simple as possible, but no simpler”, from Albert Einstein.
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