Mark Zuckerberg life style and life story
- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has had a difficult 2018; the social network has been criticized for enabling the spread of hate speech and fake news.
- In April 2018, he testified before Congress after it was revealed that Facebook shared users' data with political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.
- Zuckerberg started Facebook at Harvard in 2004 at the age of 19 for students to match names with faces in class.
- He took Facebook public in May 2012 and still owns nearly 17% of the stock.
- In
December 2015, Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, pledged to give
away 99% of their Facebook stake over their lifetimes.
Facebook
FB +2.26% founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife physician Priscilla Chan donated $214 million worth of Facebook stock to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation on Thursday, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing published on Friday. The donation came the same day the nonprofit announced a new president and CEO to succeed the foundation’s former leader, Emmett Carson, who stepped down in June following allegations by current and former employees of harassment at the workplace and poor management.Zuckerberg has donated to Silicon Valley Community Foundation (known
as SVCF) in the past. The new gift brings his total giving to the
foundation to slightly more than $1.96 billion, all of it in the form of
Facebook stock. Zuckerberg and his wife made their latest donation via
the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (known as CZI), their philanthropic,
advocacy and impact investing entity. CZI confirmed the $214 million
donation but declined to comment further.
The newly named CEO of SVCF is Nicole Taylor, who previously served as vice president of the Arizona State University Foundation, overseeing annual giving, estate and gift planning and foundation relations. She will begin her role in on December 19, according to the foundation.
