Some people make it look easy.
Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of Facebook, rules over a two-hundred-fifty-billion-dollar (market capital valuation) Silicon Valley-based global behemoth. One out of every six people on Planet Earth is a monthly active user … including myself.
He designed his first computer program at age 12, excelled at fencing and became the captain of the private Academy team, conceived of the online social networking site, Facebook, while at Harvard, got a diploma in the Classics, and became one of the youngest billionaires while still in his twenties.
Oh yes, and he’s fluent in Mandarin Chinese! Wanting to impress his girlfriend’s grandparents, he asked one of Facebook’s officers in 2011 to teach him. How good is he? Last month he conducted a half hour Q & A session before an audience in Beijing, China. Mark is also fluent in French and Hebrew.
His latest endeavor – he recently purchased Oculus Rift, a virtual reality company, for just over two-billion dollars. How did he make the announcement? On his Facebook page, of course. Mark believes this is the future and he’s betting heavily on it.
Mark Zuckerberg personifies the new wave of Tech Gods.
Gates, Allen, Jobs, Ellison, Wozniak, – these are all the old guard wonder kids. Mark represents the new breed and is the leader of the pack in an impressive field of tech companies and billionaire moguls, the likes of Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick.
Standard attire: blue jeans, sneakers and a t-shirt. He is fresh-faced and looks like he never breaks a sweat. He is about 5’ 8’’ tall, medium build, wavy reddish-brown hair, blue eyes and probably has an I.Q. that runs off the page.
He married his college sweetheart, Priscilla Chan in 2012 and together are waiting for their first child.
I think it’s fascinating to watch how these amazingly creative tech super-stars design our future. Look how Jobs transformed the tech landscape and our everyday lives. Zuckerberg has already done it once and I think he’s warming up for round two.
What lies behind us and what lies before us is tiny compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson.