Last week was certainly a good week for Mark
Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of the world’s largest social
networking site, Facebook. Just a day after his
company, Facebook, made its initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq
stock exchange, he tied the knot with his long time girlfriend, Priscilla
Chan yesterday in a small and private wedding.
The 28-year-old billionaire raised $16
billion at the IPO after more than 576 million shares changed hands,
setting a trading volume record for U.S. market debuts. Facebook posted
$3.7 billion in revenue in 2011 and $1 billion in profit. The site
boasts 900 million global users.
Earlier in the week, his girlfriend, now
wife, Priscilla Chan graduated from medical school at the University of
California, San Francisco, on Monday which happened to be Zuckerberg’s
28th birthday. The guests at the wedding actually thought they were
attending a graduation celebration for Chan, but were surprised to learn
that it was, in fact, a wedding. The two shocked a bunch of friends and
family with a surprise wedding in the Facebook CEO’s backyard. There
were fewer than 100 guests at the event, including Facebook Chief
Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg.
The couple met at Harvard and have been
together for more than nine years. Zuckerberg designed the ring himself,
and according to a Facebook rep, it features “a very simple ruby.”
A look at Zuckerberg’s Facebook page
reveals that he has now changed his status from ‘In a Relationship’ to
‘Married to Priscilla Chan.’
Congratulations to the newly weds!
NEWS SOURCE:bellanaija
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