20 interesting facts about Zuckerberg that you might have missed

1. He wrote a program for his father-dentist

When Mark turned 12 years old, he created an instant messenger called ZuckNet. The program helped his father-dentist learn that patients came to him.

2. He could work in Microsoft

In college, Mark created an application for listening to music Synapse Media Playerwhich tracked your favorite songs and created playlists. Microsoft I wanted to buy it, but Zuckerberg and his friend refused to sell.

3. He has non-standard tastes

One of his favorite books is Aeneid, a poem written between 29 and 19 a century before Christ. He also loves the show The West Wing ("West Wing"), which describes the work of the fictional team of the US President. By the way, its creator is Aaron Sorkin, who is the author of the script for the film “Social Network”.

4. He loves to play sports

In 2016, he set himself the goal of running 365 miles (587,4 km) in a year. He achieved this result in the middle of summer.

5. He does not waste money

Zuckerberg has a big house where an electronic butler with the voice of Morgan Freeman works. But for his search, Mark did not use the services of an expensive realtor. Instead, he himself studied options on the website of private announcements. Craigslist.

6. He is color blind

Mark cannot distinguish all colors, he does not distinguish between red and green. That is why for Facebook selected blue color, which is clearly visible to him.

7. He was not always cool in programming.

Mark studied programming from books in the C ++ series for dummies.

8. He knows foreign languages

He was always interested in ancient languages, such as Latin. He also speaks Chinese.

9. His dog also has a Facebook page.

Dog name is Beast (The beast). She is a Hungarian Shepherd Dog. And she has her own page on the social network, to which more than 2,7 million people are subscribed. If anything, she can send a message.

10. He many times refused to sell Facebook

Many giants wanted to buy a social network before its release on the stock exchange. The offer was made NewsCorp, MySpace, Viacom, Yahoo, NBC, Microsoft, Google other. Mark refused to everyone.

11. He met his future wife in line at the toilet

Harvard University had a fraternity party. For the first time, Mark saw his future wife Priscilla Chan in line at the toilet.

12. He is a fan of Steve Jobs

Leadership style Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), inspired Mark. On his first business cards it was written: "I am the CEO, **** (obscene word)."

13. He is of medium height

In many photographs, Mark seems tall, but in fact his height is a centimeter 173.

14. He is on twitter

Mark has a Twitter profile. From 2009 to 2012 year, he wrote all 19 tweets, with 435 thousands of followers.

15. He admires Einstein and Picasso.

Mark likes to quote Albert Einstein: “Everything should be simplified as long as it is possible, but no more than that,” and from Picasso he likes the words: “All children are artists. The problem is to remain an artist when you grew up. ”

16. The page itself Zuckerberg lead 12 people

A whole team of specialists is engaged in maintaining the Mark page. They follow the publication of events, control comments, make publications, post photos.

17. He is trying to hide his personal life.

In 2014, Mark bought land in Hawaii for 100 million dollars. On a plot of 2,8 square. kilometer he plans to build a house. And around his current home in Palo Alto, he bought neighboring houses with land so that neighbors would not interfere.

18. His clothes cost more than it looks.

Everyone knows that Zuckerberg is wearing gray T-shirts, sweatshirts, jeans and sneakers. Nike. He does not want to spend time choosing clothes, and he spends his time saving on making really important decisions related to work and charity. But everything is not as simple as it seems. According to Italian designer Brunello Cucinelli, Mark’s gray T-shirts stand from 300 to 400 dollars.

19. He is friends with Vin Diesel

In an interview for New York Times Vin Diesel talked about this friendship. They corresponded about two years in Facebookand in December, 2016, Mark took the 15 minute interview with the actor. The awe-inspiring gaze of the founder of the social network has become a meme.

20. You can block his Facebook page.

Earlier, when you tried to block Mark’s account, an error message was displayed. Now every user can block it.