Would you give up friendship for a billion dollar company? Well Mark Zuckerberg, creator of Facebook, did it. Mark Zuckerberg seems to be a normal young man in his twenties, but he is the youngest billionaire in the world; with an estimated assets of 30 billion dollars. Facebook, a worldwide popular website, is the reason. Mark founded Facebook as an undergraduate at Harvard University, aged 19. This is the story of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, how it was conceived and what it will become. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984 in White Plains, New York but grew up in Dobbs Ferry, a small town in New York City. Edward Zuckerberg, Mark's father, is a dentist and his mother, Karen, a psychiatrist. Mark has three sisters; Arielle, Randi and Donna Zuckerberg. Mark got his first computer, an Atari 800 with a programming disk, at age 10. Although Ed taught him Atari BASIC programming, Mark mostly taught himself. Mark's parents hired David Newman, a computer engineer, to teach him about computers. Newman and his parents soon realized that he was a computer programming genius. Mark's parents then purchased a new computer, a Quantex 486DX with Windows 3.1, and began programming his new computer. Mark attended public elementary, middle and first two years of high school. He attended Ardsley High School, where he was exceptionally talented in science and mathematics. Unfortunately, Ardsley was not at his experience level, so Mark was transferred to Phillips Exeter Academy, an expensive private school, located in New Hampshire. There Mark studied mathematics, science and was captain of the fencing team, a sport at which he excelled. While still in high school he invented a program, with Adam D'Angelo, called Syn...... middle of paper ......010 Person of the Year “For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relationships between them, to create a new system of information exchange and to change the way we live our lives” - TIME Magazine Cover. In 2011 Mark's Facebook and Daniel Ek's Spotify collaborated to bring music to people through their Facebook profiles. On May 19, 2012 Mark married Priscilla Chan, whom he had met during his years at Harvard. Mark started a new project in August 2013 called internet.org. The purpose of Internet.org is to make data and access to the Internet accessible for global communication. Mark continues to work on this project similar to that of Bill Gates, whose goal is to make computers available worldwide. On March 25 this year Mark announced that he had recently purchased Oculus Rift VR, a virtual reality headset for $2 billion..