Zuckerberg has really had a bad time lately. Facebook, the social networking site he founded, was pushed to the top by "disclosing privacy among 87 million users": Facebook's share price fell 13% overnight and lost $75 billion (470 billion yuan) in market value; The "Delete Facebook" campaign was launched on social media; Zuckerberg had to face nearly 100 members of Congress in the United States to conduct a 10-hour "public trial."
Zakabakh was besieged by reporters at the hearing
Not long ago, Zuckerberg was a corporate icon of countless people: the 20-year-old who dropped out of Harvard and started Facebook (Facebook), a 24-year-old billionaire, and not so long ago that he was a start-up icon for millions of people: he dropped out of Harvard at the age of 20 and started social networking site Facebook (Facebook) at the age of 24. The 28-year-old company went public; by 2017, he was 33 and had a fortune of $72.7 billion (about 450 billion yuan), making him the fifth richest person in the world. Even more intriguing is the rumour that he "does not like to spend money", "sitting on tens of billions of dollars but only wearing cheap T-shirts" and "donating 99% of his fortune" and so on. But is that really the case? Let's uncover the biggest lie behind Zuckerberg-what frugality is false!
01, the same gray T-shirt, 2300 yuan a piece
Zuckerberg is always said to be frugal, wearing the same gray T-shirt every day-but wearing a T-shirt only means he can't wear clothes, doesn't mean he's frugal!
Foreign media revealed that Zuckerberg's shirt, designed by the Italian luxury brand Brunello Cucinelli, is known for its super-soft, skin-friendly cashmere.
What is cashmere? According to Baidu Encyclopedia, it is a rare special animal fiber, growing in the exterior cortex of goats, growing out when winter is cold, resisting the wind cold, and falling off after the spring turns warm. Because it is too precious, cashmere is called "soft gold", "fiber jewel" in trading only at gram price.
And Zuckerberg's shirt, made of this material, costs $400 for a T-shirt and $3000 for a hoodie! On domestic websites, Zuckerberg sold the same T-shirt for 2300 yuan!
A plain T-shirt can be so expensive that poverty limits my imagination.
02, 16 bodyguards, security costs 45 million per yea
Facebook spent nearly $5 million on Zuckerberg security and transportation in 2015. By 2017, that spending had soared to $7.3 million (about 45 million).
What is this concept? in 2017, the average American income per capita was $57,000, which means Zuckerberg's security fee alone is equivalent to the annual income of 128 average Americans. As a billionaire, it's normal to have a few more bodyguards. Check Zuckerberg's picture. Every time he goes out, there are at least four, five tall bodyguards next to him.
Starting in 2016, Zuckerberg has hired at least 16 bodyguards to provide security to himself and his family day and night, Forbes reported.
Three, 42.3 million dollars to buy four houses in a neighbor's house, just to keep it private.
In contrast to clothes and bodyguards, Zuckerberg is more expensive than buying a house.
In 2011, Zuckerberg spent $7 million (about 43 million) to buy a luxury home in a high-end residential area in San Francisco Paraotu, where he settled.
The picture shows that the mansion has a beautiful garden, a large swimming pool, a warm bedroom, a delicate kitchen, and looks comfortable and comfortable.
Zuckerberg had lived well, but someone had a bad idea, and a shrewd real estate developer announced that he was going to build a big house next to Zuckerberg's house. This way, as long as you have money, you can buy it, get up every morning, and see the founder's backyard at a glance. If you're lucky, you might still see Zuckerberg walking his dog in his big underpants.
It was clearly unbearable for Zuckerberg, who was not short of money, spending around $42.3 million to buy all four properties around his house.
Red dot is the house Zuckerberg bought.
In 2013, Zuckerberg bought a 500-square-meter joint-row home on San Francisco and spent another $1 million on renovations, including adding a flowerhouse and renovating the kitchen. In 2014, Zuckerberg spent $100 million. Bought more than 3 square kilometers of real estate. In Kauai, Hawaii.
To sum up, Zuckerberg is really not soft to buy a house, don't know such a person, really as people say "frugal, low-key"?
04. Zuckerberg, one of the most urban people in the world?
Last month, an article entitled "Zuckerberg is the world's most city-grown man," from the official account Dr. X, whose name is Prykhanov, tells about the other side of Zuckerberg's unknown. "of all the rich people in the world, Zuckerberg is definitely the one who is most interested in making a show," the article pointed out at first glance.
It's hard to say? Zuckerberg, for example, often posts photos on social networking sites about families, wives and children, creating a good father and husband for himself. In fact, these photos are all carefully taken, and then carefully crafted by the PR team, screened out and released.
Such a seemingly casual picture, for example, is actually by world famous photographer Charles Ommanney.
It's not that easy for ordinary reporters to take a picture of Zuckerberg on their own. One reporter said that one time Zakabakh attended an event, and journalists squatting there couldn't get a direct picture of Zuckerberg because "as soon as they are ready to shoot, they will be pushed away by bodyguards."
Even Zuckerberg's 99 percent donation to a charity fund has been cited as an attempt to circumvent "tough antitrust laws and high estate taxes."
As a result, the author concludes: "what you see in Zuckerberg, the simple and intimate image, every detail is carefully manipulated with lots of US dollars."
So, what about the real Zuckerberg?
Examples are given, such as Zuckerberg's creation of Facebook by plagiarizing two Harvard seniors. Just to start a business, he kicked off the original partner, but also calculated Ma Huateng a hand. He even hovered around the office with a martial knife, and threatened to chop off his employees' heads if he didn't do well enough.
I would also like to add one example: there is a popular APP, in the United States called Snapchat, founder named Spiegel, and Zuckerberg was interested in the APP and wanted to buy it for $1 billion. Who knew that Spiegel was so ambitious that he refused to take care of the $1 billion he had sent to the door! What did Zuckerberg do? It took only 12 days for him to create a new basic APP, function that was almost the same as the Snapchat and showed it to Spiegel. It means, not only you will do this, we have the money and power, do not accept the acquisition is ready to close down! Spiegel clenched his teeth, did not give in, Zuckerberg came to power, set up the Creative Labs (Creative Laboratory), the main task is to super-(chao) over (xi) Snapchat. So far, Facebook has plagiarized Snapchat four or five times. Even Spiegel's fiancee and world-famous model Miranda can't see it anymore. She says, "can't Facebook be innovative?" Only copy my fiance's ideas! "
In the end, however, Zuckerberg failed, and Snapchat got bigger and finally went public, with a market capitalisation of $34 billion!
All along, he gives people the feeling, is naive big boy, the technical house, occasionally discovers the opportunity, finally flies in the sky, has obtained the millions of dollars. However, shopping malls such as battlefield, can survive in the business field, everyone is human essence, if really is a white rabbit, it is estimated that soon will be eaten.
No matter how delicate the packaging is made by the media, Zakaberg is not the perfect person after all. He has his own desires, means and secrets. This secret incident breaks Zuckerberg's perfect camouflage and presents his truest side perfectly in front of everyone.
I can not help but think of a lot of rich people who have been touted in China. Are their entrepreneurial stories really so inspiring? And how many unknowable secrets are behind it? I don't know the answer either. Maybe there is no answer. As the author of the article Prykhanov finally said: "there may be only two paths ahead of us: one is to swallow these packages and live a beautiful life;" The other is to tear them apart and face up to the cold and hard truth. "