Mark Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg, Moskovitz and some friends moved to Palo Alto, California, where they leased a small house that served as an office. Over the summer, Zuckerberg met Peter Thiel, who invested in the company. They got their first office in mid-2004. According to Zuckerberg, the group planned to return to Harvard, but they eventually decided to remain in California, where Zuckerberg appreciated the "mythical place" of Silicon Valley, the center of computer technology in California.[44][45] They had already turned down offers by major corporations to buy the company. In an interview in 2007, Zuckerberg explained his reasoning: "It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me

• Zuckerberg, Moskovitz and some friends moved to Palo Alto, California, where they leased a small house that served as an office. Over the summer, Zuckerberg met Peter Thiel, who invested in the company. They got their first office in mid-2004. According to Zuckerberg, the group planned to return to Harvard, but they eventually decided to remain in California, where Zuckerberg appreciated the "mythical place" of Silicon Valley, the center of computer technology in California.[44][45] They had already turned down offers by major corporations to buy the company. In an interview in 2007, Zuckerberg explained his reasoning: "It's not because of the amount of money. For me and my colleagues, the most important thing is that we create an open information flow for people. Having media corporations owned by conglomerates is just not an attractive idea to me

Raised as a Reform Jew, Zuckerberg later identified as an atheist but subsequently revised his views. In 2016, he said, "I was raised Jewish and then I went through a period where I questioned things, but now I believe religion is very important."[16][183][184]

• Raised as a Reform Jew, Zuckerberg later identified as an atheist but subsequently revised his views. In 2016, he said, "I was raised Jewish and then I went through a period where I questioned things, but now I believe religion is very important."[16][183][184]
• Zuckerberg met his future wife, fellow Harvard student Priscilla Chan, at a frat party during his sophomore year there. They began dating in 2003.[185][186] In September 2010, Chan, who was by then a medical student at the University of California, San Francisco,[187] moved into Zuckerberg's rented house in Palo Alto, California. He studied Mandarin before they visited China, the home country of Chan's parents, later that year.[188][189] On May 19, 2012, they married in his backyard in an event that also celebrated her graduation from medical school