Mark Zuckerberg, in full Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, (conceived May 14, 1984, White Plains, New York, U.S.), American software engineer who was fellow benefactor and CEO (2004-) of Facebook, a person to person communication Web webpage.

In the wake of going to Phillips Exeter Academy, Zuckerberg enlisted at Harvard University in 2002. On February 4, 2004, he sent off thefacebook.com (renamed Facebook in 2005), a registry where individual Harvard understudies entered their own data and photographs into a layout that he had conceived. In somewhere around fourteen days half of the understudy body had joined.

Zuckerberg's flat mates, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, assisted him with adding elements and make the site accessible to other grounds the nation over. Facebook immediately became well known as enrolled clients could make profiles, transfer photographs and different media, and stay in contact with companions. It varied from other person to person communication destinations, in any case, in its accentuation on genuine names (and email addresses), or "confided in associations." It additionally laid specific accentuation on systems administration, with data dispersed not exclusively to every individual's organization of companions yet additionally to companions of companions — what Zuckerberg called the "social chart."

In the late spring of 2004 the threesome moved their central command to Palo Alto, California, where Zuckerberg convinced financial speculator Peter Thiel to give them seed cash. Zuckerberg exited Harvard to focus on the youngster organization, of which he became CEO and president. In May 2005 Facebook accepted its most memorable significant implantation of funding ($12.7 million). After four months Facebook opened to enlistment by secondary school understudies. In the mean time, unfamiliar schools and colleges likewise started to join, and by September 2006 anybody with an email address could join a local organization in light of where the person resided. About that time Zuckerberg turned down a $1 billion buyout offer from Yahoo!, yet in 2007 Facebook made an agreement with Microsoft in which the product organization paid $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook; after two years Digital Sky Technologies bought a 1.96 percent share for $200 million. In 2008 Zuckerberg's new worth was assessed at about $1.5 billion. After Facebook's first sale of stock (IPO) of stock in 2012, Zuckerberg's total assets was assessed at more than $19 billion.