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Ambitious, tenacious,

the internet entrepreneur
and tech innovator

with a gift for
computer program.

The man who became the planet's
youngest billionaire at 23

and who created one of
the world's most popular

social network, Facebook.

Along with Amazon, Google,
Apple, and Microsoft,

Facebook is one of
the big five companies

in the US tech industry.

So what did it take to build
such a revolutionary business?

Well, it took someone
like Mark Zuckerberg,

the young genius who
connected people in ways

never thought possible.

In 2021, his net worth is
estimated at $96 billion.

The giant social network
has had a vertiginous growth

since its creation.

Take a journey into how Mark
Zuckerberg built the giant

that has changed
billions of lives

and the way people
interact with the world.

They are masterminds, ambitious,
competitive, and ruthless

not afraid of failure,

dedicated to their mission
of bettering the world,

always reaching for excellence.

They lead by example.

Unlike many industries, the
tech billionaires are mostly

self-made.

It is true they're genius,
that they revolutionize

the industry and together
they change the world.

Join us in this series
as we take a look at

some of the wealthiest
entrepreneurs in the modern world,

the tech billionaires,

Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Mark
Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos.

Together they're worth a
collective of more than

900 billion US dollars.

They will be
remembered in history

as the most influential
people of the 21st century.

Mark Elliott Zuckerberg
was born on May 14th, 1984

in White Plains New York,

into a comfortable
well-educated family.

He was the second of four
children and the only son.

He grew up with his three sisters
in the suburbs of New York

Dobbs Ferry.

His father, Edward
Zuckerberg was a dentist

and his mother,
Karen a psychiatrist.

Young Mark developed an
interest in computers

at an early age.

He began programming
in middle school

with the active
support of his father.

And he was learning fast.

When Mark was about 12, he
used the Atari BASIC program

his father had taught
him to create his own

messaging program named ZuckNet.

His father used the program
in his dentist's office,

so that the receptionist
could inform him

of a new patient without
yelling across the room.

The family also used ZuckNet
to communicate within

the house.

Together with his friends,
Zuckerberg also enjoyed

creating computers games
just for fun as he said.

To keep up with their son's
enthusiasm and growing interest

in computers, his parents
even hired a private tutor,

David Newman, while he
was still in high school.

Newman later told reporters
that it was hard to stay

ahead of the prodigy.

Zuckerberg studied at the
exclusive Phillips Exeter Academy

in New Hampshire.

There he showed
talent and fencing,

becoming the captain
of the school's team.

He excelled in classes and
earned a diploma in Classics.

Yet he remained
fascinated by computers

and continued to
focus on his passion

of developing new programs.

While in high school, he
created an early version

of the music software, Pandora,
which he called Synapse.

It was clear that he had
an entrepreneur's mindset

from an early age.

Even before he founded Facebook,

he was actually on
Microsoft's radar.

The company and several
others including AOL

approached the teenager
for buying the software

and hiring them
before graduation.

He declined the offers.

After graduating
from Exeter in 2002,

Mark Zuckerberg enrolled
at Harvard University

where he studied Psychology
and Computer Science.

By this time he was already
a programming prodigy,

by the sophomore year,
he developed a reputation

as the go-to software
developer on campus.

It was at that time that
he built a program called

CourseMatch, which helps
students choose their classes

based on the course
selections of other users

and also help them
form study groups.

But the young freshmen was
a bit of a troublemaker.

In 2003 he invented a website,

by far the most talked about
things that he created.

The site was called FaceMash,

and it allowed students to
judge the attractiveness

of other students by
comparing two pictures

and vote on one who was
most attractive person.

The software then
ranked the results.

Even though Zuckerberg
created it just for fun,

it became wildly popular,

but people didn't like that
their pictures were being used

without their permission.

And Zuckerberg actually
violated university policy

by hacking into Harvard
security network.

FaceMash was deemed
offensive and inappropriate

and was shut down a few
days later by the school.

Zuckerberg apologized
for his actions,

saying he thought of it as
a fun computer experiment.

He faced serious charges of
violating individual privacy.

Harvard nearly expelled him,
but then put him on probation.

This would be the first time
he ever got into trouble,

but his journey
was just starting.

The genius had seen his future

and had an undeniable potential.

People wanted to see
what he would do next.

Based on the buzz of
his previous projects,

three of his fellow students,
Divya Narendra and twins

Cameron and Tyler
Winklevoss, reached out him

to work on an idea for
a social networking site

they called Harvard Connection.

They wanted to create a dating
site for the Harvard elite

by using information from
the student networks.

Zuckerberg agreed to help
them in the beginning.

But while working on
coding for the program,

he got a fantastic idea
for his own social network.

Soon, he decided to
pursue his own adventure.

It all started in 2004 when
the freshmen Harvard student

and his friends decided
that they would start

a social project together.

Zuckerberg's fellow students
and roommates included

Chris Hughes Andrew
McCollum, Eduardo Saverin,

and Dustin Moskovitz.

It turned out to be the
perfect combination of people

to found a company
that would later become

the most popular social
network in the world.

So on February 4th, 2004
out of his college dorm room

and surrounded by the
elite, Zuckerberg co-founded

and launched a site that allowed
students to connect online,

Thefacebook.

Those who signed up could
create their own profiles,

share information about
their lives, upload photos

and communicate
with other users.

His goal, giving people the
ability to share information

in a safe environment.

Well, I mean, I think our
focus is just on building

the best, simplest
and easiest product

for people to share
information in all the ways

that they want.

So we started off just
incredibly simple.

There are only a few different
ways to share information.

And over the last few years
we've added photos, videos,

notes, messages, just to
all these different types

of things.

And each of these are
just used massively.

So photos, for example,
there are more than

a hundred million photos
uploaded a month in the UK alone.

Our goal is really just
to enable all of that.

And we think that if
we provide the easiest

and the best simplest
way for people to share

all of these kinds of
information that they want

with exactly the
people that they want,

then that's just a longterm,
very valuable thing.

Giving people complete
control over their privacy,

actually while creating
a safe environment

it also makes it so that people
can share more information.

So it's a really important
part of what we do.

Facebook
was a hit from day one.

Within two weeks, half of the
student body had signed up.

We're not gonna share
people's information

except with the people
that they've asked for it

to be shared.

And everyone gets
privacy settings.

It has always been one of
the big differentiators

for Facebook.

A really different service
for people is you can say,

"I want this photo album
to go to these people,"

or "I want this note
to go to these people."

And the privacy controls on
Facebook are really unparalleled

by anything else

The group
of friends ran the site

out of their dorm
room until June, 2004.

Zuckerberg recall the early
days with nostalgia years later

in his Harvard
commencement speech.

I remember that night,
I launched Facebook from

that little dorm
in Kirkland house.

I went to Noax with
my friend kayaks

and I remember telling
him clearly that

I was excited to help connect
the Harvard community,

but one day someone would
connect the whole world.

The thing is, it never
even occurred to me

that that someone might be us.

We were just college kids.

We didn't know
anything about that.

But the social
network has a complicated

early history.

Zuckerberg faced a
challenge shortly

after Facebook launched.

His three former
classmates and creators

of Harvard Connection
now called connectU,

filed a lawsuit against
him a few months later.

They claimed that
Zuckerberg stole their idea

and business plan and
insisted that he needed to pay

for their business losses.

Facebook launched in
February, 2004 and connectU,

three months later,
but it struggled and was then shut down.

Zuckerberg maintained
that the ideas were based

on two very different
types of social networks.

Incriminating messages
revealed that Zuckerberg

may have intentionally stolen
the intellectual property

of Harvard Connection.

He later apologized, saying
he regretted his actions.

The matter was eventually
settled out of court.

It was during a frat party
in his second year of college

at Harvard in 2003, that
Zuckerberg met his better half

Priscilla Chan,

a Chinese American medical
student from Boston.

They came from two
different worlds,

but their hearts connected.

"He was this nerdy guy who's
just a little bit out there,"

Chan told the New Yorker.

Early on in their relationship,

Chan set some
strict ground rules,

because Zuckerberg was
so busy with Facebook,

she apparently
required one date night

and a minimum of 100 minutes
of alone time per week,

not at Facebook.

They finally made the
relationship official.

Zuckerberg may not have
gotten a degree out of Harvard

but he met the woman
that he would marry.

He declared years later, "she
is the most important person

in my life, so you can say
was the most important thing

I built in my time here."

In 2004, after
his sophomore year

Zuckerberg dropped out of
college to devote himself

full time on
building the website.

He's not the first big
name in Silicon Valley

to have dropped out of college
and gone on to find success,

Apple co-founder, Steve jobs,

and two of the world's
richest men, Bill Gates

and Tesla CEO, Elon Musk
all dropped out of school

to start their own company.

After he dropped out of
Harvard, Zuckerberg felt himself

growing wings and he and the
Facebook team moved the company

to the other side of the
continent to Palo Alto, California

where they opened
its first office.

They partied a lot, but
also worked even harder.

Thefacebook officially
became Facebook.

And by the end of 2004, it
already had 1 million users.

The website was and
still is free to use.

Most of its earnings
come from ads.

At first restricted
to Harvard students,

it expanded over time
to other colleges,

international schools
and even beyond.

What I wanted to do
when I was getting started

was simply just make a way for
people to learn some things

about the people around
them at university,

and be able to communicate
with people around them.

So basically stay in
touch with their friends.

And it's just turned out that
over the past seven years

or so as the company excelled
at that, wasn't just a need

that was fixed to my college
or colleges in general,

the desire to stay connected
with your friends and family

is I think a relatively
universal thing across the world.

By December,
2005, it had 6 million users

and the growth didn't
seem to slow down.

We're building a
technology company.

So we focus on really
technical solutions

to complex problems involving
helping people communicate

in a lot of new ways.

So, I mean, as a
technology company,

it would really only makes
sense to work with someone

who shared values
and stuff like that.

But I mean if you look
at how we're growing,

we're really just
at the beginning.

In may, 2005,
as Facebook was already worth

around $100 million, the venture
capital firm Xcel Partners

invested $12.7 million
in the company,

which enable the expansion
of the network even more.

The Facebook epidemic started.

Within four years it
would overtake Myspace,

the most popular social
network before Facebook.

In the long-term
for Facebook is,

we're really just
focused on our mission.

Just helping people
share information.

We believe really deeply that
if people are sharing more

then the world will
be a more open place

where people can
understand what's going on

with the people around them.

And that's really what
we wanna get towards,

In September,
2006, Facebook announced

that anyone who was
at least 13 years old

and had a valid email
address could join.

If you look at the ways
that people are sharing today,

I still think it's quite
primitive compared to

what is going to be possible
and the power that will be

in people's hands when
we get to that end state.

And I think that that's
gonna be awesome.

And that's something that
I think is really worth

fighting for.

Zuckerberg
was on his way to success.

He has said, "someone
needs to build a service

like this for the world."

"But I just never thought
that we'd be the ones

to help do it."

"And I think a lot of
what it comes down to,

is we just cared more."

There are just so many
interesting technical problems

specifically.

So I mean, just getting to
work with a lot of smart people

on solving some of
these huge problems,

I mean, it's just a
really fascinating thing.

When Bill Gates
became a billionaire in 1987

at 31, he was the youngest
person to ever join

the three comma club.

In 2008, Mark Zuckerberg
took that title

and he became the youngest ever
self-made billionaire at 23.

Even today's wealthiest
entrepreneurs,

didn't see that much
success at such a young age.

And it took him just one
year to make the leap from

millionaire to billionaire.

In 2009, Facebook had
become the world's most

used social network.

The user base has now
more than 2 billion people

using it every month.

Almost a third of the
world's population.

This has made Zuckerberg, a
billionaire many times over.

However, money wasn't
his motivation.

About that time, he turned
down many opportunities

to sell the site, often
from multi-billion sums.

Instead he wanted to create
a better user experience

and make the world better by
making it a more open place

where people are
able to share more

and understand what's going on.

In 2010, the movie
The Social Network

based on Zuckerberg and the
founding years of Facebook

was released.

Although he claimed that
many details in the film

were inaccurate and objected
strongly to its narrative

which he thought portrayed
him in a bad light,

indeed the young Harvard
freshmen was portrayed

as a brilliant genius
without scruples

and socially awkward nerd.

The film was critically
acclaimed and won

the Golden Globe Award
for Best Picture in 2011.

He continued on
his way to glory.

In 2010 Time Magazine named
him Person of the Year.

In May, 2011, he bought
a 5,000 square foot house

for $7 million in Palo Alto.

He and his girlfriend, Priscilla
settled in their new home.

The next year, Zuckerberg
began buying the

surrounding properties,
spending more than $30 million

to acquire four homes.

On May 18th, 2012, Zuckerberg
took Facebook public,

with an initial public
offering at $38 per share.

They raised $16 billion,

making it the biggest
internet IPO in history.

However, the shares price
crashed dramatically

over the next months.

But it recovered in 2013.

At this time, the platform
had more than 500 million

daily active users
across the globe.

Zuckerberg's net worth
was estimated at more than

$19 billion.

And he was only 28,

Just one day after he
took the company public,

and in the span of
their relationship,

he and Priscilla tie
the knot in the backyard

of their Palo Alto home in
a small surprise ceremony.

The newlyweds went off
to spend their honeymoon

in Rome, Italy.

They adopted a dog
the named Beast,

who's probably become the
world's most famous mop dog.

Beast eventually became
the older fur brother

to the couple's
first baby girl, Max,

born three years later
in December, 2015.

They would have another
daughter later on in 2017

named August.

Zuckerberg has said that
becoming a father changed the way

he saw the world and
how he ran Facebook.

Back in 2010, another
social network was created.

One that would become gigantic
and there would end up being

the second, most popular
social network in the world

after Facebook, Instagram.

This could only mean one thing,

it would be a threat to
Zuckerberg's platform.

And so rather than
compete with it,

Zuckerberg bought Instagram
for $1 billion in 2012,

a shocking sum at that time,
for a company with only

13 employees.

Instagram today has
over 1 billion users

and contributes over $20 billion

to Facebook's annual revenue.

Facebook also purchased
WhatsApp in February, 2014

for a total of
around $16 billion.

Since 2008, the tech
leader has now become

one of the most influential
people in the world.

In 2013, Facebook cracked
the Fortune 500 list

for the first time, making
Zuckerberg at the age of 28,

the youngest CEO on the list.

And in December, 2016, he was
ranked 10th on Forbes list

of the world's most
powerful people.

Facebook is now a giant
in the tech industry

and no empire is built
without damaging something.

I think Facebook has
become too big, too powerful.

And the problems that it's
creating are significant

and we have the
power to reign it in.

We just have to stand
up and ask government

to make it happen,

With every
success comes criticism.

Although the company
has been successful,

it's last decade has also
been full of scandals

and accusations.

Over the years Zuckerberg
has had to face

several controversies, as
he became one of the world's

most powerful people.

And Facebook has been accused
of spreading fake news

and issues also included
internet privacy.

In 2016 at the Facebook
Social Good Forum

in New York City, Zuckerberg
announced he had plans

to keep improving the platform.

I think about this work
in a few different ways.

First, what can we do to prevent
bad things from happening

in the world and
to our community?

Second, what can we
do when something bad

is actually happening?

And third, what can we do after
something bad has happened

to help people out?

We're starting to do
more proactive work.

Like when we use artificial
intelligence to identify things

that could be bad or
harmful and then flag them

so our teams can review them.

Or when someone shares a
post that makes it seem

like they might wanna
harm themselves.

And we give them, their friends
suicide prevention tools

that they can share to get
the help that they need.

Safety Check is an example of
technology that we've built

to help people during a crisis.

Because when
something's going on,

whether it's a natural
disaster or a terrorist attack,

there's nothing more
important than knowing

that the people you love
and care about are safe.

Finally, when a crisis hits,
we're also building tools

within Facebook that let people
raise money and awareness

to help rebuild
their communities.

And this is just the beginning.

The philosophy of
everything we do at Facebook

is that our community can
teach us what we need to do.

And our job is to learn
as quickly as we can

and keep on getting
better and better.

And that's especially
true when it comes to

helping to keep people safe.

We're gonna keep finding new
ways to empower our community

through technology and services
in a way that's effective

and that helps people
feel comfortable

when they need to use them most.

I'm really proud of
the progress we've made

but I knew that there's a
lot more than we need to do.

And that's why I hope that
you're gonna be inspired

by what you hear today.

And more importantly,

I hope you'll help us
build even more tools

to keep our community safe.

Then there was the Cambridge
Analytica scandal in 2018

which was another hard
blow to Zuckerberg.

He came under fire again

when he pushed the
limits on user privacy.

It was revealed that
the data analytics firm

with ties to President
Donald Trump's 2016 campaign,

improperly obtained data
from tens of thousands

of Facebook users.

The information was
utilized to target voters

in the US presidential election.

The scandals shook investors
confidence in Facebook.

As more people increasingly
became frustrated

and angry with the company.

Following the reveal, Zuckerberg
testified before Congress

in April, 2018.

He reminded people of
the good Facebook can do

while acknowledging
the bad it had done.

And as Facebook has
grown people everywhere

have gotten a powerful new
tool for staying connected

to the people they love, for
making their voices heard

and for building
communities and businesses.

Just recently, we've
seen the Me Too movement

and the March for Our Lives
organized at least in part

on Facebook.

After hurricane Harvey, people
came together to raise more

than $20 million for relief.

And more than 70 million
small businesses use Facebook

to create jobs and grow.

But it's clear now that
we didn't do enough

to prevent these tools from
being used for harm as well.

And that goes for fake
news, foreign interference

in elections and hate
speech, as well as developers

and data privacy.

We didn't take a broad enough
view of our responsibility

and that was a big mistake
and it was my mistake.

And I'm sorry.

I started Facebook.

I run it.

And I'm responsible
for what happens here.

In 2019, the
FTC fined Facebook $5 billion

over violations of user privacy.

A record breaking fine
for a tech company.

The database that Facebook
has amassed is humongous.

It is no surprise that the
company and its creator

have drawn a lot
of controversies.

Many have struggled to
understand the business model

of the social media giant.

For some, it has become
too big to regulate

and they asked the question,

"should we still trust it?"

Zuckerberg's reputation was
threatened many times over

and he has had to learn
how to manage his anxiety

as well as his public image.

However, the negative
image from his accusation

seemingly did little to
slow the company's progress.

After a surge in his
company's stock price in 2018,

Zuckerberg, unseated
Warren Buffet

and became the world's
third richest person

behind fellow tech billionaires,
Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates.

In the end, Zuckerberg seems
to want to prove to the world

that he is just a normal person.

To this day he still wears a
signature, casual gray T-shirt

and jeans on a daily basis.

Even in major business meetings.

His style is perhaps the
most famous of all tech CEOs.

Seeing he consistently
wears the same outfit.

However, don't be fooled,

these T-shirts are known
to cost at least $300.

He revealed he wears the same
clothes over and over again

because he wants to
limit the time he spends

making decisions so he can
concentrate on real work.

He inspires his employees to
keep the office environment

casual, yet productive.

He has said, "I want
to clear my life

so that I have to make as
few decisions as possible

about anything except how to
best serve this community."

With all this wealth,

there's one thing the
billionaire doesn't seem to mind

splurging on, real estate.

And he has a knack for
buying surrounding properties

to the ones he buys
to ensure his privacy.

In 2014, his real estate
portfolio jumped even more,

as he spent $100 million
on two properties

on the Island of Kauai.

An immense former
sugar plantation

and a huge property
with a white sand beach.

Zuckerberg said he and
Chan bought the land

because they're dedicated to
preserving its natural beauty.

According to his Facebook
page, the property's farm

is even home to
goats and turtles.

He's also bought
properties on Lake Tahoe

costing $59 million combined.

He owns in total 10 properties.

Zuckerberg doesn't appear
to travel much for pleasure,

but when he does travel
Facebook foots the bill.

In 2018, Facebook
approved a record high

$10 million annual security
budget for Zuckerberg

for bodyguards, security
measures for his houses

and private aircraft.

On May 25th, 2017 at Harvard's
366 commencement day,

Zuckerberg received an
honorary degree from Harvard.

He gave an emotional
commencement speech

as he recalled his
old days of the school

and how Facebook might
never have happened

without him being there.

Change starts local.

Even global change starts
small with people like us.

In our generation, the struggle
of whether we connect more,

whether we achieve our
greatest opportunities,

comes down to this,

your ability to build
communities and create a world

where every single person
has a sense of purpose.

In August,
2020, one of his genius moves

propelled Zuckerberg's personal
net worth over $100 billion

for the first time.

Facebook launched
in over 50 countries

a new Instagram feature that
competed directly with TikTok

in the US, Instagram Reels.

We live in a society that
never stops evolving,

Zuckerberg hasn't stopped
innovating, and coming up

with new ideas.

He has understood that
constant innovation is crucial

to make it in modern society.

We're here to talk
about online platforms,

but I think the true nature of
competition is much broader.

When Google bought YouTube,
they could compete against

the dominant player in the
video, that's the cable industry.

When Amazon bought Whole Foods,
they could compete against

Kroger's and Walmart.

When Facebook bought WhatsApp,
we can compete against telcos

who used to charge 10 cents a
text message, but not anymore.

Now people can watch video,
get groceries delivered

and send private messages
for free, that's competition.

New companies are created all
the time, all over the world.

And history shows that if
we don't keep innovating

someone will replace
every company here today.

And that change can often
happen faster than you expect.

Today as the
world battles the COVID-19

global pandemic and people
are shielded at home,

Facebook has become a
go-to communications tool.

Zuckerberg along with Jeff
Bezos has had the biggest gains

in 2020.

The 36 year old became
the third centibillionaire

on earth.

But for him starting Facebook
was not about the money.

Little did he know that the
small website he was running

out of his dorm
room would become

the multi-billion dollar
corporation it is today,

but he had a vision.

And he said, "the thing I really
care about is the mission,

making the world open."

So thanks to Facebook profits,

Zuckerberg became the
world's youngest billionaire.

He started a family

and bought up big multi-million
dollar properties.

For sure his wealth
has allowed him to have

a privileged life.

To most people, Mark
Zuckerberg is only

the multi-billionaire CEO,

but there's also
another way to see him.

He is also a devoted and
loving father and husband.

He regularly shares candid
photos of his family on Facebook

and the Instagram, to show
the world that he is embracing

being a father.

But ultimately, luxury
isn't the only thing

that Zuckerberg has
put millions into.

In fact, his main priority
is giving his money away

rather than spending it.

He has pledged hundreds
of millions to charity,

at 36 he is doing his part
to spread the wealth around.

Zuckerberg and his wife are
generous philanthropists,

investing billions in
childhood education

and medical research.

In 2010, Zuckerberg announced
on the Oprah Winfrey Show

that he was donating $100
million to the public schools

of New Jersey.

Okay.

So okay, why education
and why Newark?

Why education?

Because every child
deserves a good education,

and right now that's
not happening.

I've had a lot of
opportunities in my life.

And a lot of that
comes from, having gone

to really good schools.

And I just wanna do what I
can to make sure that everyone

has those same opportunities.

The couple
announced that year

that they were signing
on to The Giving Pledge,

joining Bill Gates
and Warren Buffet,

a commitment made by
billionaires to give away

more than half of their
wealth during their lifetimes

or in their wills.

"We will spend our lives
working to make sure

future generations have
the greatest opportunities

possible," the couple
wrote in a letter.

In December, 2015, they founded

the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative,

that will focus on
health and education.

And pledged to give away
99% of their Facebook stake

over their lifetimes
to improve lives.

They have donated $25
million toward fighting

the Ebola virus.

And have said their goal
is to cure all diseases

in the lifetime of
their daughters.

A couple of weeks ago,
Priscilla and I made a donation

to help the people on the
ground leading the fight

against Ebola.

Stopping Ebola is something
we both really care about.

The Ebola epidemic
in West Africa

has become one of the biggest
health crises in the world.

Thousands of lives
have already been lost.

And if we don't act now, then
many more people will suffer,

and Ebola could become a
long-term global crisis.

At Facebook, we wanna make
sure that we do our part

to help in the
fight against Ebola

Amid the
Corona outbreak in 2020,

Zuckerberg also
donated $25 million

to the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation

that is searching for
treatments for the disease.

Mark Zuckerberg changed the
game of the internet forever.

Ever since Facebook came,
everything's sped up,

connecting,
advertising, marketing.

Everything started
on this one platform.

And even today, when
people claim that Facebook

is losing its popularity,

it gets roughly 7,000 people
registered in every 15 minutes.

It is even popular in
China where it's banned

by the government.

Almost everyone today who
has access to the internet

has a Facebook account too.

However controversial it may be,

Facebook is in the
game for the long run.

The tech industry
is an American success story.

The products we build
have changed the world

and improved people's lives.

Our industry is one of the ways

that America shares its
values with the world,

and one of our greatest
economic and cultural exports.

Facebook is part of this story.

We started with an idea to
give people the power to share

and connect.

And we built services that
billions of people find useful.

I'm proud that we've given
people who've never had a voice

before, the
opportunity to be heard

and given small
businesses access to tools

that only the largest
players used to have.

Since COVID emerged, I'm
proud that people have used

our services to stay in touch
with friends and family,

who they can't be
with in person.

And to keep their small
businesses running online

when physical stores are closed.

I believe that Facebook
and the US tech industry

are a force for innovation
and empowering people.

But I recognize that there
are concerns about the size

and power of tech companies.

Mark Zuckerberg
was only just 19

when he built the
social media giant

out of his small
campus dorm room

and changed the world
and the internet forever.

Facebook has strived
for more than a decade

after an extraordinary
growth in size and influence,

the internet pioneer has led
the company through the years,

through scandals,
challenges and turmoil,

and yet, it is still standing.

Undoubtedly, it is an
enormous success story.

Facebook now has more
than 2 billion users

all around the world.

It has made people able to
connect more than ever before.

Thanks to Zuckerberg,
people around the globe

can easily keep in touch
with all their families

and it rallies people together
through groups and fan pages.

Not so long ago, society to
not have such an opportunity.

So although its true
value is debatable,

it's safe to say that
Facebook and its creator,

are two of the 21st
centuries, most influential,

controversial and
powerful figures.

Mistakes were made along way,
but they paid off in the end.

Taking risks is one of the
secrets to Zuckerberg's success.

He claims, "the biggest risk
is not taking any risk."

Mark Zuckerberg remained
true to his initial vision

and his one social
mission, connecting people,

building community and bringing
the world closer together.

He has succeeded far and wide.

He has built an empire.

My top priority has always
been our social mission

of connecting people,
building community

and bringing the
world closer together.

Advertisers and developers
will never take priority

over that as long as
I'm running Facebook.

I started Facebook
when I was in college,

we've come a long
way since then.

We now serve more than 2
billion people around the world,

and every day people use our
services to stay connected

with the people that
matter to them most.

I believe deeply in
what we're doing.

And I know that when we
address these challenges

we'll look back and view
helping people connect

and giving more people a
voice, as a positive force

in the world.

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