Mark Zuckerberg; CEO of Facebook Who Donated 99% of His Share For Charity

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, 33 years old person, is a computer programmer and an internet entrepreneur.
In 2004, he launched Facebook from Harvard University’s campus with assistance of some of his colleagues.

His Story is all about contribution and promoting equality and human potential.

How a 20 years old person launched Facebook? How he grew from a few hundred users to billions of users? How he bought Instagram and Whatsapp? Why he contributed 99% of his share in 2015?
Mark Zuckerberg is CEO of Facebook. In 2004, he got the idea to launch a platform where people could easily communicate and share things; finally, after months of hard work with full dedication with help of his friends Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes he launched Facebook from the university campus.

On the first months, Facebook had a few hundred users and it grew to millions by every passing month as Facebook was becoming a better platform for people to communicate.

Facebook bought Instagram and Whatsapp to make Facebook a wider place for communication. According to Facebook, Instagram has 300 million active users each month, 700 million active users on messenger, 800 million active users on Whatsapp and 1.49 billion active users on Facebook on a monthly basis.

In 2015, on behalf of his daughter’s birth; Mark Zuckerberg announced to donate 99% ($ 45 billion on that time) of his share to Chan and Zuckerberg Initiative to promote equality and human potential.

Mark Zuckerberg is known as 5th richest person on earth and 10th most influential and powerful person in the world.

In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” Mark Zuckerberg”



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