Mark Zuckerberg is the founder, director and CEO of Facebook. Here's how he crafted his endlessly successful social media business . 

Early Life and Education 

Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984 in White Plains, New York, and was brought up nearby Dobbs Ferry. He was naturally introduced to a knowledgeable family and built up an enthusiasm for PC programming at an early age. 

When he was 12 years old, Zuckerberg created a messaging software named Zucknet that he implemented it as an inter-office communication system for his dad's dental practice. Because of his early signs of success, his parents got him a PC programming coach while he was still in secondary school, and they enlisted him in a private academy in New Hampshire. 

In the wake of moving on from private academy, Zuckerberg took a crack at Harvard University. 

Success story

While many intelligent people go to Harvard University, Mark Zuckerberg became known as the go-to computer programmer on campus. By his sophomore year, he had already built two programs CourseMatch and FaceMash. The two projects turned out to be uncontrollably well known, yet the college shut down the last program after it was considered to be inappropriate. 

In view of his approval on grounds, Zuckerberg partnered with his friends to create a social networking site that allowed harvard students to establish communication with each other. The site formally went live in June 2004 under the name "The Facebook," and Zuckerberg ran it out of his apartment. 

After his sophomore year, Zuckerberg dropped out of school to seek after what was then called Facebook full-time. The site arrived at 1 million users by the end of  2004. 

Having a blast of user growth pulled in the consideration of many funding (VC) firms, and Zuckerberg in the long run moved out to Silicon Valley in 2005. Facebook got its initial round of funding speculations from VC firm Accel Partners, which put $12.7 million in the site that was still only open to Ivy League understudies. 

Before the end of 2005, be that as it may, Facebook had opened up to understudies going to different schools, making the site reach 5.5 million users. Since 2005, Facebook has received various offers from  Yahoo and Microsoft, which has experienced fights in court, and has extraordinarily expanded its users. 

On July 25, 2018, Facebook discharged Q2 income. The organization detailed that day by day dynamic users arrived at the midpoint of 1.47 billion for June 2018, an expansion of 11% year-over-year. Month to month dynamic users totaled 2.23 billion as of June 30, 2018, an expansion of 11% year-over-year. Starting at July 30, 2018, the organization has a market top of $483 billion. Zuckerberg possesses 14.18 million Class A Facebook shares in a series of assets, starting at July 25, 2018. He additionally claims 441.6 million Class B shares. With control of over almost 89% of Class B shares, Zuckerberg holds 60% of voting rights in the organization. 

Total assets and Current Influence 

As per Forbes, Mark Zuckerberg has a total assets of $63.5 billion starting on July 30, 2018. 

With regards to impact, Zuckerberg has marked the Giving Pledge, which means he will give in any event half of his total assets to charitable causes before he passes on. In 2010, for instance, he gave more than $100 million to spare the Newark educational system in New Jersey. 

At the point when his little girl Max was conceived, Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan composed an open letter in which they vow to give away 99% of their total assets during one's lifetime. Be that as it may, many have criticized the way by which Zuckerberg is giving his fortune. The establishment Zuckerberg and Chan have set up is a limited liability corporation, not a charitable trust. This choice enables the two to accomplish things that charitable trusts are not permitted to do, which thus could make the establishment progressively compelling, however it may likewise profit their family in excess of a conventional trust. 

Corporations can make for-profit investments and political donations. Unlike charitable trusts, corporations are not required to report their political donations.

In April 2018, Zuckerberg affirmed before Congress after it was uncovered that the organization had shared users' information to the political counseling firm Cambridge Analytica. Forbes has credited the brisk drop of Facebook's stock value following the organization's July warning the investors  of slowing growth and profit margins to the growing impact of the battle between profit and privacy, citing the Cambridge Analytica story and Facebook's growing inability to protect users from harmful misuse and misinformation.