Facebook’s founder’s relatively quiet existence — or at least a dramatised version of it — is about to become considerably more public.
On October 1, a film based on the life of Facebook’s sweatshirt-wearing co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg, will be released in theatres.
Whether or whether the film is truly biographical, it is certain to bring the 26-year-old Zuckerberg even further into the spotlight, if he isn’t already. After all, his website is used by a half-billion individuals all over the world.
We looked up information on Zuckerberg on the internet and came up with this list of six interesting and little-known facts about the man behind Facebook. Much of it is based on a well-known profile of Zuckerberg in The New Yorker, which has been making the rounds on the Internet since it was published earlier this month.