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Mark Zuckerberg The 28-year-old Facebook founder and chief executive is one of the world's youngest billionaires.
May 19, 2012
This image provided by Mark Zuckerberg shows the Facebook co-founder with his new bride, Priscilla Chan. In May, Zuckerberg turned 28 years old, raised $16 billion as he took his company public and married his longtime girlfriend, Chan. Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, changed his own relationship status to "married" after tying the knot with Chan in a low-key ceremony at his home in Palo Alto, Calif.
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May 18, 2012
In this photo provided by Facebook, Zuckerberg rings the Nasdaq opening bell from Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Robert Greifeld, second from right, CEO of the Nasdaq-OMX Stock Market Inc., said the stock exchange is "humbly embarrassed" by its bungling of Facebook's debut. Facebook's stock was expected to start trading at 11 a.m. May 18 but didn't open until 11:32 a.m., and some investors didn't learn for hours whether their orders went through.
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May 11, 2012
Zuckerberg leaves Crowne Plaza Hotel after attending a road show for the company's initial public offering in Palo Alto, Calif.
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May 7, 2012
Zuckerberg is escorted by security guards as he departs a hotel in New York.
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May 1, 2012
Anchor Robin Roberts talks to Zuckerberg during an interview in Menlo Park, Calif., for "Good Morning America."
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March 29, 2012
Zuckerberg speaks to Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda in front of a monitor displaying a Facebook page of Prime Minister's Office of Japan in Tokyo. Facebook has more than 800 million users around the world and is the leading social network in all but six countries, notably Russia, where local rivals are preferred, and China, where it has been banned since 2009.
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March 27, 2012
Zuckerberg and his girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, walk near Fuxing Road in Shanghai. Zuckerberg and Chan were visiting Shanghai, according to local media reports.
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March 6, 2012
Israeli President Shimon Peres writes on a blackboard with Zuckerberg at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.
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Nov. 7, 2011
Zuckerberg arrives to speak during a news conference at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.
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Sept. 22, 2011
Zuckerberg jokes with comedian Andy Samberg in a keynote address during the Facebook f8 conference in San Francisco. Zuckerberg kicked off the conference introducing a Timeline feature to the popular social network.
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July 6, 2011
Zuckerberg and Skype CEO Tony Bates speak during a news conference at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. Zuckerberg announced new features coming to Facebook, including video chat and a group chat feature.
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May 25, 2011
Zuckerberg speaks with France's President Nicolas Sarkozy as he leaves after a meeting at the presidential Elysee Palace in Paris on the closing day of the first e-G8 summit. The e-G8 aimed to draw up a declaration for the Group of Eight leaders who met in Deauville, northwestern France, with discussions covering sensitive issues such as online copyright and censorship.
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July 9, 2011
Mark Zuckerberg walks to morning sessions with his girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, during the 2011 Allen and Co. Sun Valley Conference, in Sun Valley, Idaho.
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April 20, 2011
President Obama talks with Zuckerberg during a town hall meeting at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. Obama held the meeting to answer questions about the deficit and the economy.
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Dec. 15, 2010
Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and chief executive, is featured on the cover of Time magazine's 2010 "Person of the Year" issue. Then 26, Zuckerberg was the youngest to earn the honor since the first person chosen, aviator Charles Lindbergh, in 1927. Lindbergh was 25.
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Dec. 14, 2010
Zuckerberg, seen here at his induction into the California Hall of Fame, has made his mark not only as one of the world's youngest billionaires but also as a high-profile newcomer to the world of philanthropy. This year, he pledged to give $100 million to the Newark school system.
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Oct. 5, 2010
Zuckerberg, seen here at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., commented on his Facebook page: "Being named as Time Person of the Year is a real honor and recognition of how our little team is building something that hundreds of millions of people want to use to make the world more open and connected. I'm happy to be a part of that."
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Oct. 5, 2010
Zuckerberg launched the first version of Facebook in 2004 from his dorm room at Harvard. A group of older students filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg, claiming he had stolen their idea , a charge that inspired much of the drama in the 2010 movie "The Social Network."
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Sept. 25, 2010
Zuckerberg is joined by Newark Mayor Cory A. Booker, left, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at a news conference detailing Zuckerberg's $100 million donation to Newark schools.
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Aug. 18, 2010
Zuckerberg looks on as Facebook software engineer Ben Gerzfield hits a gong to launch the social network site's new location-based feature called "Places" during a news conference in Palo Alto, Calif.
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April 21, 2010
Facebook, which started as a small-scale network for college students, has expanded to become a site worth billions of dollars that now claims more than 500 million active users.
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July 23, 2008
Zuckerberg demonstrates Facebook Connect during the 2008 Facebook f8 developer conference in San Francisco. The technology allowed Facebook users to connect their identity to other sites across the Web.
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July 23, 2008
Time editor Richard Stengel described Zuckerberg as a central figure in a worldwide transition that has caused "an erosion of trust in authority, a decentralizing of power and at the same time, perhaps, a greater faith in one another."
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Nov. 6, 2007
Time's "Person of the Year" is the person or thing that has most influenced the culture and the news during a given year, for better or for worse.
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Feb. 5, 2007
The bio on Zuckerberg's own Facebook page reads, "I'm trying to make the world a more open place."
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