Mark Zuckerberg was born in White Plains, New York State in 1984, the son of a dentist and a psychiatrist. Mark’s childhood was carefree, like any boy of the American middle class and educated according to Jewish precepts (the family is Jewish).

Since he was a child, Mark had a predilection for the humanities and classics, he was able to recite epic poems such as the Iliad by heart. But the classical and humanistic subjects, as well as the passion for languages (he writes and reads correctly in French, Latin, Jewish, Chinese and ancient Greek) are not the only interests of Zuckerberg, who since he was a child matures an unbridled passion for information technology and new technologies. In fact, he learned the programming language from middle school taught to him by his father, who was also passionate about computer science. He later tooks private lessons from a developer, David Newman, who called him a genius.

During his high school years, Mark Zuckerberg began writing software: the first was Synapse Media Player which uses machine learning to learn the user’s musical preferences and store them in a database.
It is February 4th 2004, the beginning of the Facebook era and of a new way of communicating between users through like, “profile photo” and “shared posts”. A global success that tooks him to the top of the world in four years, as the youngest billionaire in existence.
Owner since April 2012 of the social network Instagram and since January 2014 of the popular application WhatsApp, in 2020 he has, according to an estimate by Forbes magazine, assets of 54 billion dollars (in a year almost 8 less) and is the 7th richest man in the world.