Co-founder, chairman and CEO, Meta Platforms
Mark Zuckerberg is co-founder, chairman and chief executive of Meta Platforms, the parent of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Threads, and its controlling shareholder, according to Wikipedia.
Career milestones from the sources
- February 4, 2004: launched “Thefacebook” at Harvard with Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
- 2004: left Harvard and moved the company to Palo Alto, California.
- May 2012: Facebook’s initial public offering.
- 2026: appointed to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
In the news
On October 21, 2026 a New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion over misleading statements about Facebook; Meta plans to appeal. Meta’s revised Commercial Terms take effect October 30, 2026 and let it crawl websites linked to advertisers’ products.