The couple had been trying for years, but Chan suffered three miscarriages along the way. Chan gave birth to a baby girl in December , and the couple named her Max — short for Maxima. To celebrate the birth of their daughter, the couple also announced the launch of a new company called the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
Chan left her role as a pediatrician to run the organization full-time. Their goal is to cure all diseases in the lifetime of their daughter, Max, who was 10 months old at the time.
Together, the couple have given hundreds of millions to charity. They announced in they were signing onto the Giving Pledge, a commitment made by billionaires to give away more than half of their wealth during their lifetimes or in their wills. Chan and Zuckerberg have also made efforts to support education on both coasts. The hospital — whose day-to-day operations the Facebook CEO has no impact on — has been criticized in recent years for blindsiding patients with large emergency-room bills.
Meanwhile, Priscilla and Chan welcomed the birth of their second daughter in August , who they named — appropriately — August. Zuckerberg took two months off work for paternity leave after August's birth. Zuckerberg and Chan have also traveled the world together. Early on in their relationship, they agreed to vacation for two weeks every year overseas.
They've taken trips to Dubai, Mumbai and China, where they visit Chan's family. Zuckerberg spent years learning Mandarin from Chan. Zuckerberg gave the pope a miniature model of a Facebook solar-powered drone. While in Europe in May , he posted about celebrating his seventh wedding anniversary with Priscilla Chan at the Parthenon in Athens. Together, the two properties have feet of private waterfront access. But property isn't the only thing that Zuckerberg and Chan have put millions into.
Chan and Zuckerberg haven't been shy recently about connecting with political figures. Both of them reportedly recommended staffers to hire to the presidential campaign of Pete Buttigieg, the former presidential candidate. Find out more about Priscilla and her relationship with Mark here! Like Mark, Priscilla was also a student at Harvard University.
Unlike Mark, Priscilla graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Biology, while the Facebook founder left school after his sophomore year to work on the website. Priscilla was raised in Quincy, Massachusetts, a Boston suburb, by Chinese immigrant parents. She started at Harvard in In real life, he had been with current girlfriend Priscilla Chan since before the advent of Facebook , while in the film he is rejected by an invented character called Erica Albright, he said. Zuckerberg's comments are surprising because Facebook has previously been careful not to attack The Social Network, a strategy which had appeared to pay dividends.
The film has certainly done nothing to harm the company's position as the world's pre-eminent website of its type. Born in New York in , Zuckerberg already had a "reputation as a programming prodigy" when he started college. While at Harvard, Zuckerberg launched a site called Face Mash, on which students ranked the attractiveness of their classmates.
Harvard shut the site down after its popularity crashed a network and Zuckerberg later apologised saying it was "completely improper". The year-old launched the social network from his dorm room on February 4, 20o4 with the help of fellow students. The friends would end up embroiled in legal disputes as they challenged Zuckerberg for shares in the company. Zuckerberg also faced action from Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, as well as Divya Narendra who claimed he had stolen their idea - the disagreement was later turned into the film, The Social Network.
The tech prodigy dropped out of Harvard to focus on Facebook, but received an honorary degree in
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