Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2004 and grew it into Meta Platforms — the world's largest social media company with over 3 billion daily active users across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Born in White Plains, New York in 1984, Zuckerberg became the youngest self-made billionaire in history at 23. His long-term bets — the $1 billion acquisition of Instagram in 2012, the $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp in 2014, and the multi-billion-dollar pivot to the metaverse — shaped the trajectory of both social media and virtual reality. His AI investments through Meta AI are positioning the company as a major force in open-source large language models.
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