Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg turns 31 today.
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Facebook Founder turns 31 today - Five facts you didn't know about him
Zuckerberg developed Facebook in his university days and has led it on to become one of the biggest tech companies in the world, making the Facebook name synonymous with Social media in general.
Facebook Co-founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg
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Zuckerberg developed Facebook in his university days and has led it on to become one of the biggest tech companies in the world, making the Facebook name synonymous with Social media in general.
Here are five facts you may not know about him.
1. He became the youngest billionaire in the world at 23.
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2. Zuckerberg used Atari BASIC to create a messaging program used by his dad at his dental office when he was just 12 years old. While still in high school, he created an early music streaming platform Synapse, which AOL and Microsoft showed interest in, but were rebuffed by young Zuckerberg.
3. He will only hire people that he would have as a boss. The test has seen Zuckerberg hire some of the most famous technology executives in the world.
Sheryl Sandberg, for instance, was chosen by Zuckerberg to be chief operating officer at Facebook and is perhaps the most famous woman in the tech world. He considers Sandberg a mentor, and has said that she has helped make Facebook into a healthy business.
4. With a fortune of $33.4 billion, he is the 16th richest person in the world, according to Forbes’s latest ranking.
5. Facebook's CEO is red-green colour blind, which means that the best colour he can see is blue. Zuckerberg reportedly once said, "Blue is the richest colour for me. I can see all of blue."
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