It cannot be said that Mark Zuckerberg is the idol of many people. The bad ones in the use of user data have made Zuck become a kind of Silicon Valley villain. Although, surely if we only took into account his facet as an entrepreneur, the interest in his figure would change.
With its lights and many shadows, the founder of Facebook owns the biggest social media empire thanks to his ability to spot potential competitors and buy them before they get too big. This was the case with WhatsApp and Instagram.
With a fortune valued at 120,000 million dollars, although sometimes strange. His routine of having several identical t-shirts and jeans is well known so as not to waste time thinking about what he wears every day. Stranger still, the anecdote that she had with the former CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, whom he invited to eat at his house a deer that he himself had hunted.
In the following lines we review what is known about investments and how Mark Zuckerberg spends his money.
Your main expense: houses
Zuckerberg is jealous of his assets, except for a few homes he is known to have purchased with his wife Priscilla Chan. In 2011, they paid $7 million for a 1,000-square-meter house in the Crescent Park neighborhood of Palo Alto, the same area where Steve Jobs lived.
The couple subsequently bought four surrounding properties for another $30 million over two years, as well as several pieces of land in Hawaii. Some of these moves are said to have been made to thwart a developer who wanted to buy the adjoining houses and tear them down. Zuckerberg found out, bought the houses above their market value and rented them out to residents. The couple also paid $10 million for a San Francisco home in the Noe Valley neighborhood.
No big whims
Aside from a jet that Facebook charters for Zuckerberg, he hasn’t been seen with any big cars or yachts.
Mark Zuckerberg also donates to some organizations. He is listed as a founding donor to Code.org, a non-profit organization that tries to teach kids to code.
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