Mark Zuckerberg To Speak At Harvard Commencement
CNN/Stylemagazine.com Newswire | 3/7/2017, 1:45 p.m.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, along with wife Priscilla Chan, donated almost $500 million to a charitable foundation in 2012.
SAN FRANCISCO (CNNMoney) -- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is one of the most successful college dropouts. But now he's going back to Harvard University -- as the commencement speaker.
The university announced on Tuesday that Zuckerberg will address graduates at the 366th commencement ceremony on May 25.
Zuckerberg founded Facebook while a Harvard sophomore in 2004 before dropping out to work on the company. The social network was once exclusively for college students, but now is used by more than 1 billion people each day.
In a video posted to his Facebook page, Zuckerberg joked with Microsoft cofounder and fellow Harvard dropout Bill Gates about the speaking engagement. Gates was the Harvard commencement speaker back in 2007, the same year Zuckerberg's wife, pediatrician Priscilla Chan, graduated from the university.
"They know we didn't actually graduate, right?" Zuckerberg says in the video.
Harvard President Drew G. Faust said in a statement that "Mark Zuckerberg's leadership has profoundly altered the nature of social engagement worldwide."
But the administration wasn't always so impressed with him. In 2003, Zuckerberg made facemash.com -- a "hot or not" for students. He was accused of "breaching security, violating copyrights and violating individual privacy," according to the Harvard Crimson, and had to face an administrative board to determine whether he should be kicked out.
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