What is Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth? Who is Mark Zuckerberg’s wife?
Introduction
Mark Zuckerberg is an American entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of Meta, which owns Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook.
Biography
He was born on May 14, 1984, in White Plains, New York, as Mark Elliot Zuckerberg.
His mom, Karen, worked as a psychiatrist, while his dad, Edward Zuckerberg, ran a dental practice.
He has three sisters — Arielle, Donna, and Randi.
During high school, Zuckerberg created Synapse — an early version of the music software Pandora.
He attended Harvard University. In college, Zuckerberg studied computer science and psychology. At Harvard, he achieved a “reputation as a programming prodigy.”
Mark Zuckerberg creater of “Facebook”, photographed at Eliot House at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. on May 14, 2004 – @Getty
Mark did not graduate from Harvard. However, in 2017, he received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.
On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched thefacebook.com in his college dorm room at Harvard University. It was a directory in which Harvard students entered their photos and personal information.
“By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent,” he later said.
In 2006, Mark turned down a $1 billion buyout offer from Yahoo!.
In 2007, Microsoft paid $240 million for a 1.6% stake in Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg gives a speech during the Facebook seminar as part of the 57th International Advertising Festival held at the Palais des festivals on June 23, 2010 – @Getty
In 2008, at age 23, Zuckerberg became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire.
In 2010, he made a $100 million donation to the Newark school system. In the same year, Zuckerberg was portrayed by actor Jesse Eisenberg in the film “The Social Network.” It grossed over $224 million worldwide.
In 2011, he was named by Time as one of the most influential people in the world.
In May 2012, Facebook debuted on the New York Stock Exchange. After the initial public offering of stock, his net worth was estimated at $19 billion.
Mark Zuckerberg attends the UFC 300 event at T-Mobile Arena on April 13, 2024 in Las Vegas – @Getty
In 2016, Zuckerberg alongside Stephen Hawking and Yuri Milner co-founded the solar sail spacecraft development project Breakthrough Starshot.
In October 2021, Facebook changed the name of its parent company to Meta Platforms.
In 2022, Zuckerberg announced that 21,000 Meta workers lost their jobs.
On January 7, 2025, Zuckerberg announced that Meta would stop working with third-party fact-checking organizations. His move is said to be inspired by Elon Musk’s X. Facebook launched its fact-checking program in 2016,
Wife
On May 19, 2012, Marck Zuckerberg married American pediatrician Priscilla Chan.
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg attend. the Breakthrough Prize Awards Ceremony Hosted By Seth MacFarlane at NASA Ames Research Center on November 9, 2014 – @Getty
Mark and his wife dated for about a decade before they tied the knot.
They met in college at Harvard. Zuckerberg was a sophomore and Chan was a freshman.
“We met at a going away party my friends threw for me in college,” Zuckerberg wrote on Instagram.
In 2015 the couple founded the philanthropic Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
In August 2024, Zuckerberg commissioned a giant sculpture of Chan.
They have a dog named Beast who has over 2.4 million followers on Facebook.
Children
Zuckerberg and his wife have three daughters together:
- Aurelia
- August
- Maxima,
In September 2024, after they went to one of Taylor Swift‘s concerts, August told him that she wanted to be like the superstar singer when she grew up.
Height
Mark Zuckerber gives his speach during the presentation of the new Samsung Galaxy S7 and Samsung Galaxy S7 edge on February 21, 2016 in Barcelona – @Getty
Mark Zuckerberg is 5′ 9″ (1.75 m) tall.
Mark Zuckerberg – Net Worth
So, how much is Mark Zuckerberg worth?
Zuckerberg earned most of his wealth from his ownership of Meta stock. He has a 13 percent stake in Meta.
His annual base salary is $1.
“I started the site when I was 19,” Zuckerberg said in an interview. “I didn’t know much about business back then.”
In 2023, Zuckerberg received about $700 million as the company’s dividend payouts.
He also owns 81% of the 365 million Class B shares. This gives Zuckerberg controls the majority of Meta’s voting power.
Therefore, Mark Zuckerberg has an estimated net worth of $217 billion. However, that number fluctuates with the prices of the commodities and stocks.
Real estate
In 2011, Zuckerberg paid $7 million for a house in Palo Alto. Later, Mark bought an additional four homes surrounding his initial purchase.
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In 2018, he invested in two adjacent estates on the shores of Lake Tahoe for a total of $59 million. The purchase brought his holdings to 600 feet of prime lakefront and 10 acres of land.
In 2014, Mark bought 750-acre of land on the Hawaiian island of Kauai for $100 million. In March 2021, he paid $53 million for a 600-acre also in Kauai.
In December 2021, he added 110 acres which includes the Ka Loko reservoir.
Yacht?
He allegedly bought a $300 million 387-foot-long yacht called “Launchpad.”
Launchpad is ranked as the 45th largest yacht in the world.
Note – Zuckerberg has never publicly confirmed whether he is the owner,
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