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TIME magazine's Person of the Year: Mark Zuckerberg

TIME magazine's Person of the Year: Mark Zuckerberg

Published On: 20 December 2010 13:49 IST

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TIME magazine's Person of the Year : Mark Zuckerberg

World's youngest billionaire Mark Zuckerberg becomes the second youngest person to be honoured with Time Magazine's Person of the year title. 2010 has definitely been Mark's year, here's a look why…
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TIME magazine's Person of the Year : Mark Zuckerberg

The city That Never Sleeps: Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, born on May 14, 1984 is a typical New York kid. Mother Karen, a psychiatrist and father Edward, a dentist, raised Mark and three sisters, Randi, Donna, and Arielle, in a typical Jewish family
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TIME magazine's Person of the Year : Mark Zuckerberg

After his bar mitzvah at the age of 13, Mark lost all faith in the Supreme Being and has since claimed to be an atheist
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TIME magazine's Person of the Year : Mark Zuckerberg

In school Mark was always a straight - A student, dazzling everyone in his junior year at Ardsley High School with academic brilliance. A multi-lingual Mark recited lines from Greek epic poems such as The Iliad ‘just for fun', and even captained the fencing team. Jack-of-all-trades!
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TIME magazine's Person of the Year : Mark Zuckerberg

Love blossomed in sophomore year when Zuckerberg met Priscilla Chan and, contrary to popular belief, she has been his girlfriend ever since. Doing things the normal way keeps the spice intact in the couple's relationship. Going out for a ‘cheap yet cheerful meal at their favourite Mexican restaurant', even if they have to wait in line for minutes at end, is the couple's idea of a good day-out
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TIME magazine's Person of the Year : Mark Zuckerberg

Style Statement? Tailored suits aren't really this billionaire's style. Mark likes it easy and laid back in torn jeans and casual Tees
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TIME magazine's Person of the Year : Mark Zuckerberg

Relaxing with a beer with work-mates and eating junk in the canteen, he sure does sound like a cool boss!
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TIME magazine's Person of the Year : Mark Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room on February 4, 2004. Reportedly, earlier inspiration for Facebook could have come from Phillips Exeter Academy, the private high school from which Zuckerberg graduated. The school published its own student directory, "The Photo Address Book", but the students called it "The Facebook"
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TIME magazine's Person of the Year : Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook, at first The Facebook, was just a "Harvard thing" until Mark decided to spread it to other schools, like Stanford, Dartmouth, Columbia, New York University, Cornell, Brown and Yale. And the rest, as they say, is “the social network”
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TIME magazine's Person of the Year : Mark Zuckerberg

Based on Facebook and its founding years, “the social network” unfolded a fictionalized account of Zuckerberg's life. Though Jesse Eisenberg playing Mark seemed quite convincing, how much of it is true is yet unknown. When asked about the truth in the critically and commercially acclaimed film, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin told New York magazine, "I don't want my fidelity to be to the truth; I want it to be to story telling. What is the big deal about accuracy purely for accuracy's sake, and can we not have the true be the enemy of the good?"
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TIME magazine's Person of the Year : Mark Zuckerberg

When told about the film, Smart Alec Mark responded by saying "I just wished that nobody made a movie of me while I was still alive."
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TIME magazine's Person of the Year : Mark Zuckerberg

The Social Network is based on the book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich. The book is largely publicized for being "big juicy fun" rather than "reportage."
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TIME magazine's Person of the Year : Mark Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg has turned down many offers by large corporations to buy Facebook. One of his profound reasons is, “It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me."
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TIME magazine's Person of the Year : Mark Zuckerberg

In 2010 Facebook hit the 500 million users mark and Vanity Fair magazine named Zuckerberg number 1 on its 2010 list of the Top 100 "most influential people of the Information Age"
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TIME magazine's Person of the Year : Mark Zuckerberg

But all was not a smooth ride for Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. Harvard students Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra accused Zuckerberg of intentionally making them believe he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com (later called ConnectU). Seems like all wasn't fiction in “the social network.”
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TIME magazine's Person of the Year : Mark Zuckerberg

Winklevoss twins along with Divya Narendra filed a lawsuit in 2004 but it was dismissed on technical grounds on March 28, 2007. It was re-filed once again in federal court in Boston. On June 25, 2008, the case settled and Facebook agreed to transfer over 1.2 million common shares and pay $20 million in cash
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TIME magazine's Person of the Year : Mark Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg made an appearance on The Simpsons as himself and true to his style told Lisa Simpson that one doesn't need to graduate from college to be wildly successful, referring to Bill Gates and Richard Branson as examples
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TIME magazine's Person of the Year : Mark Zuckerberg

Mark is quite the efficient Facebooker himself. Posting pics for general delight is one of his favourite past-times!
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TIME magazine's Person of the Year : Mark Zuckerberg

In India last year, Mark discovered the explorer in him as he roamed the streets. He captions his Facebook image as, "I'm in India this week for vacation. I'll be attending a good friend's wedding and checking out a few cities while I'm here."

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