Mark Zuckerberg kicks off the era of the young CEO

The Facebook CEO is expected to become the youngest CEO of a Fortune 1000 company when his company goes public May 18. Here are some other powerful CEOs under 45.

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Mark Zuckerberg, 27, heads the world’s largest social networking company. Facebook is likely to go public this spring in what is expected to be the largest tech IPO of all time.

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Tim O’Shaughnessy, 29, is CEO and founder of the LivingSocial daily deals company based in the District.

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Andrew Mason, 31, heads Groupon, the daily deals site. I

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Spencer Marc Rascoff, 36, is CEO of Zillow, a real estate Web site.

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Larry Page, 37, is the CEO of Google, the tech powerhouse he founded with his Stanford classmate Sergey Brin.

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Michael Chasen, 39, Blackboard, founded the District-based educational software and service company in 1997. Chasen, left, is pictured with co-founder Matthew Pittinski.

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Kevin Plank, 39, is CEO of the Baltimore-based Under Armour sportswear maker.

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Francisco D’Souza, third from left, 43, CEO of Cognizant, a business and technology services company.

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