馬克·扎克伯格是美國(guó)社交網(wǎng)站Facebook的創(chuàng)辦人，被人們冠以“蓋茨第二”的美譽(yù)。哈佛大學(xué)計(jì)算機(jī)和心理學(xué)專業(yè)輟學(xué)生，是2008年全球最年輕的單身巨富，也是歷來全球最年輕的自行創(chuàng)業(yè)億萬富豪。據(jù)悉，盡管扎克伯格擁有億萬身家，但他至今仍和女友生活在一套租來的住房里；為了能在2010年年底帶普莉希拉·陳到中國(guó)度假，扎克伯格每天早晨都跟家庭教師學(xué)說漢語(yǔ)。

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg， the founder of Facebook， was born in 1984 in New York. Zuckerberg began using computers when he was in middle school. His father taught him the BASIC Programming in the 1990s and later hired David Newman， an private computer program teacher， to develop his skills. Newman called him a “genius”. The teacher even said that it was tough to stay ahead of him. When he was in high school， he also took an extra class in the subject at Mercy College near his home. Zuckerberg enjoyed developing computer programs， especially communicating tools and games. In one such program， he built a software program “ZuckNet” to help his father stay in touch with his dentists. According to writer Jose Antonio Vargas， “Mark created the computer games that kids played.”

During Zuckerbergs high school years， he built a music player called Synapse Media Player and was widely used by many high school students. By then， Zuckerberg had won a good fame and Microsoft tried to employed him， but he chose to enter Harvard University in September 2002. By the time he began classes at Harvard， he had already been regarded as a genius in programming. During his second year in Harvard， he wrote a program called CourseMatch to help students with their selection in groups. A short time later， he created a different program called Facemash that let students make choice of the best looking face of some photos and there would be a ranking. The racing lasts about a weekend but was shut down on Monday Morning. For it was so popular that it was out of Harvards control. Then students were prevent from accessing the website. Zuckerbergs roommates Hasit explaned that Zuckerberg built the site just for fun. Hasit remembered， “Mark decided that if the university wont do something about it， he would. And he would build a site that would be even better than what the university had.” Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room on February 4， 2004. And on July 21， 2010， Zuckerberg reported that the number of the website members reached to 500 million.

Vanity Fair magazine named Zuckerberg number 1 on its 2010 list of the “most influential people of the Information Age”. Zuckerberg ranked number 23 in 2009. In 2010， Zuckerberg was chosen as number 16 in New Statesmans annual survey of the worlds 50 most influential figures.

馬克·艾略特·扎克伯格是Facebook的創(chuàng)始人，他于1984年出生于紐約市。扎克伯格開始使用電腦是中學(xué)時(shí)期。他的父親在上世紀(jì)90年代教他BASIC Programming之后，聘請(qǐng)軟件研發(fā)者David Newman當(dāng)他的家教。Newman曾說扎克伯格是一個(gè)神童，而且還說想保持走在扎克伯格前面是一件困難的事。扎克伯格高中時(shí)，已經(jīng)在家里附近的Mercy College上額外的程序課。扎克伯格很喜歡程式設(shè)計(jì)，特別是溝通工具與游戲類。他還開發(fā)過名為ZuckNet的軟件程式，讓父親可以在家里和牙醫(yī)診所之間訊息交流。根據(jù)作家Jose Antonio Vargas所描述的：“扎克伯格創(chuàng)造孩子們的電腦游戲?！?/p>

在扎克伯格高中時(shí)代，他也創(chuàng)作了名為Synapse Media Player的音樂程式，并贏得了廣大學(xué)生的好評(píng)，微軟當(dāng)時(shí)就已經(jīng)想要招攬并訓(xùn)練扎克伯格，不過扎克伯格仍選擇于2002年9月進(jìn)入哈佛大學(xué)。在哈佛時(shí)代開始時(shí)，扎克伯格就被稱譽(yù)為是“程式神人”。二年級(jí)時(shí)他開發(fā)出名為CourseMatch的程式，很好地幫助了學(xué)生們選擇他們的課程團(tuán)體。一段時(shí)間后，他又開發(fā)了另外一個(gè)不一樣的程式，名為Facemash，讓學(xué)生可以在一堆照片中選擇最佳外貌的人。并且會(huì)生成一個(gè)排行榜。這個(gè)的競(jìng)賽進(jìn)行了一個(gè)周末之久，但是到周一早晨，被校方關(guān)閉，因?yàn)楣鸬姆?wù)器被灌爆，因此不準(zhǔn)學(xué)生進(jìn)入這個(gè)網(wǎng)站。Hasit解釋道扎克伯格創(chuàng)建這個(gè)這個(gè)網(wǎng)站僅僅出于好玩。Hasit回憶，“馬克決定如果學(xué)校不干的話，他要干，他將會(huì)建一個(gè)比學(xué)校更棒的站?！痹瞬褚虼嗽谒墓鹚奚醿?nèi)，于2004年2月24日發(fā)起了Facebook。在2010年7月21日，扎克伯格宣布他的網(wǎng)站會(huì)員已經(jīng)達(dá)5億人。

“浮華世界”（Vanity Fair） 雜志在2010年把扎克伯格列為“資訊時(shí)代中最有影響力”的第一人。扎克伯格在2009年時(shí)排行還是第23。2010年，扎克伯格也被New Statesman的世界50大影響力年度調(diào)查選為16名。