Top 10 Amazing Facts about Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg believes that if we would not take any kind of risk in our lives, we are guaranteed to fail. When Facebook was launched, nobody knew it would be this much successful. Mark Zuckerberg took the risk behind this social networking site and the result is that he came out with flying colours. Even the companies like Disney and Ford do not stand at that much reputation at which, Facebook stands today. In this article, we are going to discuss the top 10 amazing facts about the CEO and the chairman of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg. If you are a regular fan of this guy and you have subscribed him on Facebook too, you might be aware of some of these facts.

10. Before Facebook, Zucknet was built by Mark Zuckerberg

If you have had a view of the Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook profile, this fact would not be very much surprising for you. It is mentioned in the Facebook profile of him that he build a network called Zucknet, which was meant to connect his whole family. Zucknet was a kind of messenger through which the receptionist could ping Zuckerberg’s father and the kids in the family would use it just for their own fun. It is clear that Mark Zuckerberg wanted to connect the whole world somehow from a long time before the advent of Facebook.

9. A Tie was worn by him for the Whole Year

Have you ever worn a tie for the complete year while going for college or school? I guess on Sundays, you must have omitted that. But Mark Zuckerberg once accepted a challenge and for the whole year, he did not skip even a single day without wearing tie. If you have ever watched pics of Zuckerberg, you would have seen him in jeans, sneakers and hoodies, wearing a tie regularly for a person like him was kind of impossible but he worked it out very well. According to some reports, wearing of tie by him for the whole year was nothing but a signal to indicate the importance of that year, because he believes that tie would show up seriousness.

8. Mark Zuckerberg is a College Dropout

These days, it is not very amazing to find such successful people to be the college dropouts. But still, not many people would know this fact. It was in California that Facebook was initiated by Zuckerberg and before that, he was pursuing some course from the University of Harvard. As soon as his idea of Facebook started to get successful, he left his course and never tried to study again.

7. Mark is the only Brother of his Three Sisters

As a brother, Mark must have received love of his sisters. Reports say that he is the single male child in his family. His parents have four children, three of them are girls. And, all his sisters are added in his friends list on Facebook.

6. Mark is a Sci-Fi Fan

For our readers who do not know about the Sci-Fi, I would like to mention here that Sci-Fi is a novel where a child gradually learns to play computer games and then masters them eventually, all on his own. And the child was not any ordinary child, but a gifted one. It might be the reason that Mark considers it his own story, we do not know the actual reason behind it but Mark is definitely a great fan of this novel. According to his Facebook profile, one of his favourite books is “Enders Game”, which is nothing but a Sci-Fi novel.

5. Mark Zuckerberg is Colour Blind

Mark Zuckerberg, the youngest billionaire of the world, is not at all perfect. Rather, he has a very serious problem that he is colour blind. He can see very few colours. He was never able to see the red and the green colour. The only colour he can see to a large extent is the blue colour. This is one of the major reasons why Facebook is blue in colour. A gifted child he is, definitely, but he has used his talent in such a right direction that today the whole world has become a great fan of this guy.

4. Mark Zuckerberg does not possess a Television

In this era when we cannot imagine our lives without the movies, it is very surprising to hear that someone does not have a television at his home. And when this fact is about Mark Zuckerberg, this fact becomes all the more surprising. Yes, Mark Zuckerberg never had a TV at his home in his entire life. Still, he prefers tennis and fencing over watching television. May be he thinks of TV watching as just a wastage of time. When Mark was in high school, he was in his school’s fencing team and a great fencing champ too.

3. Mark Zuckerberg loves his Dog

There is a dog in the family of Mark Zuckerberg, known by the name Beast Zuckerberg and Mark loves this dog very much. Beast is a Hungarian species. Many of Mark’s Face book’s statuses and photos are about his dog only. And we update a status about anyone only if we are very much attached to him or her.

2. Mark Himself Designed his Wife’s Wedding Ring

It may sound very romantic to hear that someone himself is designing the wedding ring for his or her partner, but it is not the case always. According to some reports, Mark Zuckerberg’s wife Priscilla Chan is very lucky as her husband himself designed the wedding ring for her. The ring was nice one with a ruby in the middle and two diamonds on the left and the right. If you would see that ring, you would feel its nice but from a billionaire, one would expect something more. The Daily Mail says that the ring had a small sized gem and that’s why the ring has been subjected to regular criticism.

1. Mark Zuckerberg is not at all interested in Money

Many people know about his fact about Mark Zuckerberg. He did not create Facebook in order to earn money. Rather, his aim was to connect the whole world somehow. Various interviews have been held, where Mark has clearly revealed that he does not want much money and money was never his goal when he was working on the idea of Facebook. One of the famous statements by Zuckerberg reads- “Simply put: We don’t build services to make money, we make money to build better services.” This is a great thing a billionaire could ever say. That is why we have put this thing on the top position in our list of the top 10 amazing facts about Mark Zuckerberg.