Business Chief USA December 2019

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Zuckerberg and US Secretary
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Mark Zuckerberg
$68.3bn
One of the world’s youngest billionaires, Zuckerberg, aged 35,
co-founded social networking site Facebook in 2004. The site was
made for Harvard University students to match student names with
photos. In 2005, Accel invested $12.7 million into Facebook, opening
the site up to other colleges, high schools and international schools.
In 2012 Facebook became public, with its first initial public offering
(IPO) raising US$16bn – the biggest in IPO history.
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