Mark Zuckerberg, from the United States is only 23 years and is a self-made billionaire with stakes worth US$ 1.5 billion! According to Forbes, he is the youngest billionaire on earth and possibly the youngest self-made billionaire ever.

How did he get there? For those of us who doesn’t know, he is the founder of Facebook! Zuckerberg founded Facebook in February 2004 from his Harvard dorm room and that’s what lead to his ultimate wealth.

He is a Harvard dropout and left school for Silicon Valley in 2004. Later that year he scored initial $500,000 investment from PayPal cofounder and later other venture firms like Accel Partners and Greylock Partners followed.

Accoridng to Forbes, “Facebook boasts 66 million active users today and has estimated annual sales: $150 million. Expanding beyond being a college-only message system and photo album; now courting users to 55,000 different high school, business and city networks”.

Zuckerberg definitely is an inspirational success story unlike the many billionaires whose wealth was handed over to them with no effort whatsoever by themselves!

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