17 interesting things about billionaire Mark Zuckerberg you may not know yet

Surely many of us have seen or heard Mark Zuckerberg's name every day in the media and Facebook, but are you confident that you know everything about this young billionaire?

Mark Zuckerberg is one of the few youngest CEOs in the world ever. What Mark Zuckerberg had at the age of 32 made many admiring admiration. Although owning social networking site with nearly 2 billion users, the life of this billionaire still has many interesting things that few people know.

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Although more than 1 billion social network users Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg each month donate billions of dollars for medical research through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, it is important that he is still a normal person. with some " strange secrets " like others. Let us discover this strange thing about Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg!

1. Mark almost worked for Microsoft

At the beginning of high school, Mark Zuckerberg and his friends created an application called Synapse Media Player , an MP3 music player capable of storing users' favorite music as well as creating custom playlists. Like, like Spotify's rudimentary app or Pandora today.

Facing the potential of Synapse Media Player, Microsoft has tried to acquire the Synapse Media Player app as well as invite the duo to work for themselves. However, in the end, both Mark and the other co-founder - Adam D'Angelo - Quora's boss later, decided to refuse an invitation from a major technology company, continuing to study at the University ( however, later Mark dropped out when studying at Harvard to develop Facebook .

2. Ever explored to invent from the second level

When 12 years old, Zuckerberg created an emergency message program he called ZuckNet , which helped his father become a dentist knowing when his patients went to see a doctor.

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3. Mark does not admire famous pop stars

Mark is a rather classic and mature person compared to his age. His favorite book is " The Aeneid " - the ancient poet of the Roman poet Virgil and his favorite TV show " The West Wing ", where the Oval Office is located, telling about activities as well. like daily life of American presidents. One very interesting thing is, Aaron Sorkin, the director of the series " The West Wing " is the screenwriter for the movie " The Social Network " is a psychological film produced by America. in 2010 - talk about the formation of Facebook social network.

4. Famous for being frugal

Although Mark is currently living in a lovely apartment with Jarvis virtual reality system with Morgan Freeman's voice; But in an interview with The New Yorker in 2010, he said, he almost looked for accommodation on Caraigslist - a popular classifieds site for ordinary people.

5. Mark's visual impairment relates to Facebook's dominant color

The reason is, the Facebook logo is blue because of Zuckerberg's red-green blindness , he doesn't recognize those two colors. [Try to see what the world looks like in the eyes of color-blind people]

6. Mark is not always a super coder

Mark Zuckerberg learned programming for the first time through a book called C ++ for dummies .

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7. Can speak quite a lot of languages

Mark has shown his interest in ancient languages ​​at times, such as Latin. He even speaks Chinese.

8. Refusing many "solicitations" to sell Facebook

There have been many big corporations in the world ready to wait for Mark to sell Facebook, from NewsCorp, MySpace, Viacom, Yahoo, NBC, Microsoft to Google; but he refused to sell his pet.

9. Mark and his wife met for the first time by accident

Mark and his wife Priscilla Chan first met when standing in line waiting at the toilet at a party at Harvard University's public hall.

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10. Mark extremely admires Steve Jobs

Like so many other talented geniuses, Mark is a fan of Apple founder Steve Jobs. The founder of Apple was the main inspiration for Mark to write on his namecard - his first greeting card, the highly acclaimed " I'm CEO, bitch ".

11. Mark also has a Twitter account - Facebook's main rival

Not surprisingly, Mark rarely uses Twitter. Since 2009, Mark has had 19 tweets.

12. You have good self-mocking ability

Zuckerberg is known as an easy shame, but he is actually able to mock himself. Actor Andy Samberg used to make a clip of laughing at Mark on Saturday Night Live , instead of being angry, Mark praised Andy and even thought "that clip was fun ".

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13. Mark is a "crazy man"

In 2016, Zuckerberg set out to target himself out of work to run the full 587km. He completed half of his goal during the summer.

14. According to Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso

Mark used to quote Einstein on his Facebook: " Make everything as simple as possible, so simple that it can't be simpler ", as well as Picasso: " All children are artists The problem is how do we continue to promote that artist when we grow up .

15. Mark's dog is also a "celebrity"

Beast - Mark's Hungarian sheepdog, has a fanpage on Facebook with over 2 million likes. Mark - Max's first daughter is also a fan of Beast. The first word she said was " dog ".

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16. There are 12 people who help Mark manage his Facebook page

According to the report, there is a group of 12 people who help Mark manage his personal facebook: from comment review, how to write status to up photos and videos is reasonable.

17. Mark seems to be "obsessed" about protecting his private life

Mark always tries to make every effort to make sure his personal life is completely private, even if he uses financial power and litigation. Mark bought a piece of land in Hawaii for $ 100 million in 2014. However, he made the residents extremely uncomfortable when building a 1.8m high wall around his land, blocking the range. Sea view of everyone. After that, he almost sued people here, thinking they had violated their privacy when passing through their land. Moreover, Mark also tried to demolish 4 houses around his home in Palo Alto, California.

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3. 5 important business lessons from billionaire Mark Cuban

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