Mark Zuckerberg
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- Born
- Known for
- Founded Facebook, CEO of Meta
- Nationality
- American
Started Facebook at Harvard in 2004 and has led the company through every transformation since — including the rename to Meta.
The service began as a directory restricted to Harvard students and opened gradually to other universities and then to the public in 2006. The early technical choice of PHP marked the company for years and led to in-house tools such as HipHop and HHVM to make the language scale.
Two acquisitions defined the group: Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014. The share structure gives him voting control, which means strategic pivots — mobile in 2012, video, the metaverse in 2021 and AI after that — can be carried out without shareholder consent.