"Now that Mark zuckaberg made the big announcement... Folks should be happy.. He and Facebook just saved the Institution of Marriage."
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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg marries Priscilla Chan
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has updated his status to "married."
Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan tied the knot at a small ceremony at his Palo Alto, Calif., home Saturday, capping a busy week for the couple.
Zuckerberg took his company public in one of the most anticipated moves in Wall Street history Friday. And Chan graduated from medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, on Monday, the same day Zuckerberg turned 28.
The couple met at Harvard and have been together for more than nine years.
A company spokeswoman said Zuckerberg designed the ring featuring "a very simple ruby" that he designed himself.
The ceremony took place in Zuckerberg's backyard before fewer than 100 guests, who all thought they were there to celebrate Chan's graduation.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg marries longtime girlfriend
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to “married” on Saturday.
Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan tied the knot at a small ceremony at his Palo Alto, Calif., home, capping a busy week for the couple.
Zuckerberg took his company public in one of the most anticipated stock offerings in Wall Street history Friday. And Chan graduated from medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, on Monday, the same day Zuckerberg turned 28.
The couple met at Harvard and have been together for more than nine years.
A source authorized by the couple to speak said Zuckerberg designed the ring featuring “a very simple ruby.”
The ceremony took place in Zuckerberg’s backyard before fewer than 100 guests, who all thought they were there to celebrate Chan’s graduation.
Even after the IPO, Zuckerberg remains Facebook’s single largest shareholder, with 503.6 million shares. And he controls the company with 56 percent of its voting stock.
The site, which was born in a dorm room eight years ago, has grown into a worldwide network of almost a billion people.
Zuckerberg founded Facebook at Harvard in 2004.
He was named as Time’s Person of the Year in 2010, at age 26.
Zuckerberg grew up in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.
Meet Priscilla Chan, Mark Zuckerberg's No-Nonsense Girlfriend
So who is the woman, to borrow Facebook's terminology, Zuckerberg finds himself "in a relationship" with?
1.) She's been with Zuck since college
Although "The Social Network" made it seem as though Zuckerberg's ambition was driven in part by his failures with women, the truth is he and Chan have been dating since their college days at Harvard.
They met at a party while waiting in line for the bathroom; Chan later told The New Yorker that she thought Zuckerberg was "this nerdy guy who was just a little bit out there."
2.) He offered her a job, she offered him candy
When Zuckerberg left Harvard in 2005 to focus on Facebook full time, he began recruiting classmates for positions at the facebook (as it was then known). According to The Harvard Crimson, Zuckerberg was sitting outside after a campus recruiting session when Chan walked by:
"Hey Priscilla, do you want a job at the facebook?" Zuckerberg asked a passing friend.
"I'd love a job at facebook," Priscilla Chan '07 responded, offering him a Twizzler.
3.) Their relationship has rules
Author and tech journalist Sarah Lacy has written that Chan has imposed strict rules on her relationship with Zuckerberg -- not because she doesn't trust him, but because he's such a workaholic. One of the top rules: "One date per week, a minimum of a hundred minutes of alone time, not in his apartment, and definitely not at Facebook."
4.) She helped spark Zuckerberg's interest in China
Chan, who is Chinese-American, brought Zuckerberg on a trip to China in 2010. (Their holiday included some business meetings, which prompted speculation about Facebook's interests in the Chinese market.) To prepare for the visit, Zuckerberg studied the Chinese language every morning.
5.) She's on Facebook
That's a no-brainer, right? According to the publicly available portion of Chan's Facebook page, she's into cooking, photography, learning Spanish, working with kids and visiting warm locales.
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Sources: AOL, AP, Ask Men, CBS News, CNN, Daily Mail, Facebook, Harvard Crimson, Mashable, The New Yorker, Twitter, Washington Post, Youtube, Google Maps
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