The goals that Zuckerberg surpasses at 40 years old: abundant wealth, power and family

Mark Zuckerberg, who turns forty tomorrow, Tuesday, has achieved many goals, such as amassing one of the largest fortunes in the world, building a technological empire through various applications and starting a large family.

Now Zuckerberg is the CEO and president of Meta (parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger), but it all started in a much more humble way, on the elite campus of Harvard University, where together with other students -Dustin Moskovitz , Chris Hughes and Eduardo Saverin – launched Thefacebook.com two decades ago.

Zuckerberg abandoned his studies in Psychology and Computer Science during his second year at Harvard to move to Palo Alto – sanctuary of the ‘Tech’ world – and work at his company full time. When he returned to the prestigious university, he went through the front door, to receive a doctorate. ‘honoris causa‘ and become the youngest commencement speaker in history.

Hollywood Person of the Year and Muse

Zuckerberg’s figure did not go unnoticed, both for being a young prodigy and for his style, always dressed in the same clothes and with almost robotic gestures at times.

In 2010, Time magazine named Zuckerberg Person of the Year, for “connecting more than 500 million people and mapping the social relationships between them; for creating a new information exchange system; and for changing the way people live.”

Hollywood turned its attention to Zuckerberg with the film ‘The Social Network’, a film that recounts the creation of Facebook in which Jesse Eisenberg is in charge of portraying Zuckerberg, who maintains that many of the details in the film are incorrect.

In 2012, Facebook went public and a day later Zuckerberg married Priscilla Chan – whom he met at a university party – in a surprise wedding even for the guests, as they had arrived believing they were celebrating Chan’s graduation in medicine.

Improve the planet with your fortune

The couple promised to donate the 99% of their participation in Meta throughout their lives – it is estimated that Zuckerberg owns the 13% of shareholders -, as well as to donate US$ 3,000 million to finance medical research in the next decade and try to end, cure or control all diseases by the year 2100.

The fact that he wants to donate most of his great fortune to improve the world does not mean that his company has faced several moral and ethical problems that have led him to appear on several occasions before United States legislators, mainly accused of develop tools to make their applications increasingly addictive, particularly for teenagers.

The couple, who now have three children, do not exactly live modestly: in 2011 they bought a 500-square-meter house in Palo Alto for $7 million and then spent an additional $45 million on the four houses and the land at their disposal. around for more privacy.

They also have a large oasis on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. In 2014, the Zuckerberg family spent around US$100 million for more than 280 hectares and has since purchased more than 607 hectares in that area.

Doesn’t let go of the reins

Unlike some of the other founders of important technology companies – such as Jeff Bezos of Amazon or Larry Page of Google -, Zuckerberg has not yet handed over the reins of his social media empire that he has built in twenty years to another person.

On the contrary, Zuckerberg has been guiding the company towards the metaverse and artificial intelligence (AI) for several years, something that is meaning a large investment of money for Meta.

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