Mark Zuckerberg announced the birth of his second daughter and addressed her via Facebook
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The youngest dollar billionaire in history, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have welcomed their second child. The girl was named Augusta Global Look Press
The youngest dollar billionaire in history, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have welcomed their second child. The girl was named Augusta. As after the birth of their eldest daughter, Maxim, the parents addressed the newborn with a touching letter.
“Welcome to the world! Mom and I will be very happy to see who you become in it. When your sister was born, we wrote her a letter about the world we hoped she, and now you, would grow up in—a world with better education, less disease, a more developed society, and more equality. We wrote that with all the advances in science and technology, your generation should live much better than ours, and we are obliged to contribute to this. While what's going wrong often grabs the headlines, we still believe positive trends will prevail. We are optimists about your generation and your future,” the message on Facebook reads.
“But now,” Zuckerberg writes, “instead of writing about growth, we want to talk about childhood. The world is too serious. That's why it's so important to take time to get outside and play. You will be very busy when you grow up, so I hope you have enough time to smell all the flowers and collect all the leaves you want in a basket.”
In his address to his newborn daughter, Zuckerberg wishes her to read her favorite books, make up her own fairy tales, ride on the carousel with her older sister, tame a horse, run as much as she wants around the living room and yard, sleep a lot - and even in her sleep feel how loved she is.
“Childhood is a magical time. You'll only be a child once, so don't waste it worrying about the future. You will succeed, and we will do everything possible to make the world a better place for you and all the children of your generation. Augusta, we love you and we are so excited that you are going on this journey with us. We wish you the same joy, love and hope that you give us. With love, Mom and Dad,” the letter says.
Mark Zuckerberg previously announced that he intends to take one month of maternity leave immediately after the birth of his second daughter and another month in December. He recalled that Facebook employees have the right to four months of maternity leave after the birth of a child.
Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, in May 2012. In December 2020, their daughter Maxim was born. Zuckerberg said on Facebook that the birth of their eldest child was not easy for them - the couple experienced three miscarriages, recalls the Russian BBC Service.
Mark Zuckerberg was recognized by Forbes magazine as the youngest billionaire in history in 2010. At that time his fortune was estimated at $7 billion. A few months later, the Facebook founder joined the Giving Pledge, a philanthropic campaign by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. And after Maxim was born, he and Priscilla Chan announced that they would donate 99% of Facebook shares to charity. At that time, the shares were valued at $45 billion. The funds will go to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a charity that supports schools for the poor and funds research into the fight against serious diseases.
Daughter of Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg announced the birth of his daughter to the public in early December 2020. The parents named such a desired and long-awaited daughter Max, and immediately after birth they managed to welcome the little one into this world in a very original way. Max faces a bright future in a society where diseases are cured, education is individualized, clean energy, strong communities, equal rights and mutual understanding between countries - the creator of Facebook and his wife outlined their vision of progress and prospects in a letter addressed to their daughter. In a word, it is obvious that the newly made parents are inspired by happiness, because a new chapter has begun in their lives.
Dreams Come True
Friends and relatives of the families of Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg breathed a sigh of relief: the couple had a daughter. Finally, the little and so beloved angel made his parents happy with his birth. After all, many people know that this long-awaited event was preceded by numerous disappointments and unsuccessful attempts to bear the baby. However, let's remember how it all began.
The future spouses met at a Jewish fraternity party. At first, friendly relations began between them, which gradually grew into trembling feelings and the realization that together they could create a strong and happy family. Ms. Chan is a physician by education and vocation; it was she who inspired her husband to create a charitable organ donation program on Facebook. Priscilla tries in every possible way to be useful to society and is truly happy when she manages to save someone's life.
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg have been dreaming of children for a long time, but their family has faced many challenges. The couple had to endure three miscarriages before their family grew by one member. Agree, not many people have the patience and faith to continue to the end after so many disappointments. But the lovers did not give up, and as a result they received a priceless gift - a long-awaited child.
Conscious fatherhood of Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg announced the birth of his daughter in early December and immediately stated that he intended to take maternity leave for two months in order to devote himself exclusively to his family. Unlike many other celebrities, the Facebook creator does not hide his baby from subscribers and fans. He regularly posts photos of his newborn daughter and shares his impressions of fatherhood. He changes the baby's diapers and reads books. Moreover, worried about the future of his child and other children, Mark Zuckerberg decided to make every effort to make the world a better place.
Mark Zuckerberg boasted about the beauty of his pregnant wife
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan // Photo: Facebook
Businessman and creator of the world's most popular social network, Mark Zuckerberg, is known to be preparing to become a father for the first time. The millionaire informed his friends on Facebook about the upcoming happy event in his life at the end of July. Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla are expecting a baby girl. The news immediately became top news, collecting more than a million likes. Zuckerberg then happily noted that he and his beloved wife, at their young age, had already managed to leave their albeit small mark on history: she, through her scientific work, he, by creating the world’s most popular community for people to communicate. Now it's time to focus on family values. Now the couple is preparing for their new role as parents.
The day before, Mark Zuckerberg again pleased fans with a joint photo with his pregnant wife. The photo clearly shows Priscilla's noticeably enlarged belly. The expectant mother is dressed in a bright red evening dress that fits her figure and emphasizes her rounded shape. Mark and Priscilla look very happy. The photo was taken before an important event - Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla were invited to a gala dinner given by US President Barack Obama in honor of the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to the country.
Mark and Priscilla threw a party in honor of the future baby // Photo: Facebook
Apparently, Zuckerberg’s wife feels simply excellent in her position. A couple of weeks ago, Mark posted some photos from a family holiday. On them, Priscilla is captured laughing merrily, she joked and fooled around with all the party participants. This circumstance is an excellent reason for optimism. The health of the expectant mother and her baby is not in danger. For the couple, this is a very good and important sign, since this happy story was not without sad moments. The millionaire has already said that he and Priscilla have been planning a family for the past two years. And three times along the way they lost a child. The creator of Facebook speaks consciously about negative experiences: according to him, the fact that his wife eventually managed to get pregnant should give hope to those couples who have similar problems.
Let us remind you that the couple officially registered their marriage in the summer of 2012. The celebration was modest - Mark and Priscilla held a wedding in the backyard of the groom's house. The bride chose a budget dress, and the groom even put on his old formal suit, which he almost never uses in everyday life. The newlyweds spent their honeymoon in Europe, where they surprised everyone with their unpretentiousness, choosing an inexpensive hotel and visiting McDonald's instead of restaurants. Mark and Priscilla have known each other since their days at Harvard. This is one of the strongest alliances, which neither Zuckerberg’s sudden financial success nor other factors could destroy.
Priscilla (far left) looked very happy // Photo: Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg enjoyed participating in competitions // Photo: Facebook
Pregnant Priscilla Chan kept up with her husband // Photo: Facebook
Facebook founder will give 99% of company shares to charity
The founder of the largest social network Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, announced the birth of his daughter, who was named Max. In honor of this grandiose event, the happy father decided to donate 99% of his company’s shares, which are now worth $45 billion, to charity.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced the birth of his first child, daughter Max, on his page on the social network. The message was made in the form of a letter from the new father and mother to their daughter. Congratulating the girl on her birth, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan promised her that they would “devote their entire lives to doing their small part in ... developing human capabilities, ensuring equality for all children.”
Priscilla and I are so happy to welcome our daughter Max into this world! For her birth, we wrote a letter to her about…
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A small share, by the standards of Mr. Zuckerberg and his wife, is equal to 99% of the shares of the social network Facebook, which now amounts to about $45 billion. These funds will be transferred in parts over several years to the Chan and Zuckerberg Charitable Foundation, specially created for this purpose. The couple's filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to register the fund noted that they intend to sell or give away no more than $1 billion worth of Facebook shares over the next three years and want to retain a majority of voting shares in Facebook "for the immediate foreseeable future." future". Thus, Mark Zuckerberg will keep shares with a total value of about $449 million and the majority of shares with voting rights.
How Mark Zuckerberg prepared for the birth of his daughter
The happy parents wrote in a letter: “We know that this is a small contribution compared to all the resources and talents of those already working to solve these problems. But we want to do what we can, working with a lot of other people.” Let us remind you that this is not the first large-scale contribution of Mark Zuckerberg to charity. A few years ago, he signed the Giving Pledge as part of the Bill and Melinda Gates charity campaign. He then pledged to give at least 50% of his fortune to charitable causes during his life or after his death. Together with his wife, Mark Zuckerberg has already donated $1.6 billion to charitable causes, including supporting education for children from low-income families, helping hospitals, fighting the Ebola virus, etc.
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Personal life
In 2012, the wedding of Priscilla and Mark Zuckerberg took place. However, they met long before that at a student party, and, according to the girl, she didn’t like the young man right away, but over time they became really close. However, they were forced to separate for some time, as they devoted a large amount of time to self-education and professional development, but had no time left for their personal life. But in 2007, Mark and Priscilla got back together.
Three years after their marriage, their first child, daughter Max, was born in December 2020. This was a long-awaited event, since Priscilla’s three previous pregnancies were very difficult and ended in miscarriages. In 2020, the couple welcomed a second girl, whom her parents named August.
The couple has repeatedly been ranked among the most generous philanthropists by the Silicon Valley Crowd.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has changed his status. Now he's "married"
The new crop of American billionaires who have made their fortunes through their own talent are strange people. They don't throw multimillion-dollar parties, buy yachts the size of aircraft carriers, don't send Elton John wearing a white jacket to family events, and don't live in houses that resemble a cross between a royal palace and Alcatraz prison.
They spend money on developing their business - one that they like, and on charity (and, as a rule, on educational projects). They are not seen in family scandals. They treat their status in society with irony and sincerely do not understand why journalists are so persistently hunting for them.
Twenty-eight-year-old Mark Zuckerberg (net worth $13.5 billion in 2011) is just that. “Not of this world” - from the point of view of people with average incomes and an outlook based on the program “Let Them Talk.”
Mark’s wedding last Saturday to 27-year-old Chinese woman Priscilla Chan (the model’s chiseled figure is missing, and what’s more, “sometimes, as the groom recklessly admitted, she forgets to shave her legs”) made the Internet seethe – how could he?! In this?! The previous similar wave, as I remember, was caused by the marriage of Prince William. But he could. And he didn’t care about everyone.
Priscilla comes from an ordinary family of Chinese immigrants. But she is clearly no more stupid than her husband: the girl entered Harvard Medical School, and they don’t keep quitters and fools (even rich ones) there
Photo: REUTERS
Moreover, hundreds of invited guests did not even know that they had come to the wedding and did not stock up on thousands of gifts, as is customary in such cases. Relatives and close friends were invited to a party dedicated to Priscilla receiving a master's degree from the University of California, San Francisco. They arrived and ended up at a wedding (although the girl had actually just received a diploma from the Faculty of Medicine).
A white, very modest dress for the bride, a formal suit for the groom... It seems that Mark, named by the American magazine GQ as the most tastelessly dressed resident of California, first appeared in a jacket and tie. There are no secular chroniclers. After the ceremony, Mark simply changed his Facebook status to “married” and posted several photos from the ceremony.
The rings that the young couple exchanged were made of a thin gold strip with “the simplest ruby,” as a Facebook spokesman explained. I came up with the design... Yes, Mark came up with it. Not Dior or Cartier.
He's nerdy
Why did a Jewish boy suddenly choose a Chinese girl for his girlfriend? And just like that – I liked it. Not beauty, “but simplicity and openness” (this is a quote from an interview with Zuckerberg). They met almost nine years ago at a party at Harvard University in line for the toilet. “He’s slow,” Priscilla remarked to her friends then. But she continued to communicate with the strange boy, who was just then inventing the social network Facebook, and supported him in his endeavors. Although, as usually happens, his other friends chuckled - “who needs that”?
Billionaire Zuckerberg recently bought such a modest house...
A relationship began. And when Mark decided to move to Palo Alto (the same Silicon Valley where most of the advanced American companies involved in new technologies are located), Priscilla went with him. Despite the serious workload, the guys agreed to meet “at least once a week for at least 100 minutes and not on Facebook.” They did not hide their relationship. In the end, Priscilla settled in Mark’s house, which was modest according to Rublev’s standards. And Zuckerberg went to China in 2010 (I don’t think, however, that he would meet the bride’s relatives - the Chan family has been living in the USA for a long time) and even began to learn Chinese.
At the same time, while helping Mark, Priscilla still managed to graduate from medical school - she transferred from Harvard to San Francisco. And the education here is not the easiest - future doctors in the USA study for seven, eight, and nine years and only by the age of 30 they receive the right to conduct their own practice. Now Priscilla is a certified pediatrician and the knowledge she gained will probably help her when she and Mark have children. This is the explanation why Chan received her diploma so late.
Why is he like this?
The most interesting question, in my opinion. Strange? Maybe. You still need to have a special talent to do your job with passion, not paying attention to the opinion of the crowd.
In this living room one of the richest people in the world whiles away his evenings
But so was Steve Jobs (a bitten apple), so was Richard Branson (who invested money in the creation of the first private spacecraft), so was Elon Musk (one of the founders of the PayPal payment system, and now the owner and chief engineer of a company that will one of these days launch The ISS is the first private spacecraft. By the way, another founder of PayPal, Peter Thiel, gave the green Zuckerberg half a million dollars for its development.
A little from the biography
Mark was not poor at all as a child. Dad is a dentist (dentist is one of the highest paid professions in the USA), mother is a psychiatrist. Three sisters. In the sixth grade I became interested in programming. In the ninth year he created a computer version of the board game “Risk”. Then he came up with the music program Synapse, which could analyze the tastes of the music lover owner and create playlists for him. For this free program posted on the Internet, Microsoft offered Mark two million dollars. The guy refused. Don't need money? I'll make do!
In the newlyweds' bedroom there is only the most necessary things. Bed and two armchairs
At the same time, Zuckerberg still does not fit this image of a dead-beat Jewish programmer. He is an excellent fencer (he has been practicing this sport since childhood). He learned ancient Greek, knows French, Latin and Hebrew. Mark considers himself an atheist - the last religious ceremony in which he participated was a bar mitzvah (coming of age celebration) when he turned thirteen.
And despite his passion for programming, he entered the university to study psychology.
Mark was almost kicked out of Harvard for hacking the university database. He took photographs from the university archives and placed students in pairs, asking them to vote for the most attractive. Young people liked the entertainment and became popular not only with kids from Harvard—students from other famous American universities, Yale and Stanford, registered on the Internet. These were, in general, the beginnings of Facebook.
Working twenty hours a day, by the age of 23, Zuckerberg had earned $1.5 billion. With your own head and stubbornness.
When David Fincher's film The Social Network was released in 2010, Mark refused to comment on the film. Moreover, his personal life from Zuckerberg’s point of view is not shown accurately. In the film, the creation of the social network is explained by Mark’s desire to enter the elite circles of Harvard and please the girl he has his eye on. In fact, the young billionaire emphasizes, he was never interested in rich people’s clubs. He started a relationship with Priscilla in his second year at university and since then he has had no other girlfriends. So the young wife is definitely not one of those who hunts for rich suitors.
Mark started a relationship with Priscilla in his second year at university
Photo: REUTERS
It seems to me that in many ways, Mark’s behavior, which is strange for ordinary people, is explained not by his mental characteristics, but by the upbringing that wealthy American families give their children today. These guys have money - but still, as a rule, during the holidays they are obliged to work - either as waiters or as pizza delivery people. And therefore their attitude to wealth is not the same as that of our nouveau riche, driving Porsches around Red Square. Big money is not a means to stand out, but an opportunity to do what is interesting and important to you. And the US economy is structured in such a way that if this interesting business turns out to be needed by others, you can make good and honest money.
... True, bloggers found a reason to be sarcastic. It was the upcoming wedding that they explained Zuckerberg’s desire to place shares of the social network on the stock exchange (this happened just a couple of days before the wedding), as a result of which Mark became even richer.
