Mark Zuckerberg is 26. And he is Time magazine’s Person of the Year! The Facebook creator – a site used by almost 600 million people and which was invented in his college dorm room – made Zuckerberg the youngest billionaire at the ripe old age of 23.
Handed out since 1927, this award is described by Time to designate the individual who “has done the most to change the news, for better or worse.” Past recipients include Charles Lindbergh, Adolf Hitler, George Bush Sr., George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
Time selected Zuckerberg “for connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for creating a new system of exchanging information; and for changing how we all live our lives.”
Time continues: “In less than seven years, Mark Zuckerberg wired together a twelfth of humanity in a single network… It’s a permanent fact of our global social reality. We have entered the Facebook age, and Mark Zuckerberg is the man who brought us here.”
Not even 30 yet, Zuckerberg is already talking about giving away his fortune. And I love his reasons for it. He is one amazing human. Watch the interview video below to see why!