Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg marries long-time girlfriend Priscilla Chan in a surprise ceremony

[jannyk]

Source: BBC

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg marries long-time girlfriend Priscilla Chan in a surprise ceremony

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has ended a hectic week which saw his company valued at £106bn after a stock market flotation by getting married.

He wed his long-time girlfriend Priscilla Chan, 27, in a ceremony at his home in Palo Alto, California.

Chan also had a busy week, graduating from medical school on Monday, as Zuckerberg marked his 28th birthday.

The guests believed they were going to celebrate Chan's graduation - but found they were at a wedding instead.



Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18135564

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What a week!

[no_hypocrisy]

1. That must have been some pre-nup . . . . . .

[TrollBuster9090]

20. Of course, if he'd married her a day earlier

half the 20 billion would have been hers automatically. Marrying her a day after he made $20 000 000 000, she can't claim that the money was earned WHILE they were married. (I'm thinking he learned this by watching Jennifer Lopez. That time she married her personal trainer, earned $20 000 000, then divorced him nine months later, and he got half. Being paid $10 million to have sex with JLo for nine months? Nice work if you can get it. Zuckerburg, on the other hand....she'd definitely be earning it. But she wouldn't have earned it half as painfully as that woman who's going to marry Rupert Murdoch.)

[muriel_volestrangler]

28. Very classy of you

They met nine years ago, before Facebook was created, and you say "she'd definitely be earning it"?

Go on, say the word you want to call her. You know you're itching to.

[may3rd]

42. Which country is he a tax paying citizen of now ?

Is the prenup recognized if he isn't a california citizen?
Well, she still stands to clean up after taxes even if he told the US tax system to kiss his tax goodbye

[CBGLuthier]

45. wrong person

[qanda]

2. He posted the life event change about an hour ago on Facebook

Here's a USA Today link: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-05-19/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-marries-girlfriend/55082954/1

[dipsydoodle]

4. I noticed that

says "217,371 people like this"

[TrollBuster9090]

21. I wonder if he POKED her?

[qanda]

24. LOL

[madaboutharry]

3. I'm sure he is having a better day than he had yesterday!

[Odin2005]

5. He nabbed a real cutie!

[dkf]

19. Actually she looks pretty normal to me...

Which impresses me even more! Good for him. Substance over flash!

[Odin2005]

32. I think "normal" women are more attractive that the model types.

[thelordofhell]

6. What a week

I bet the marriage will last longer than Facebook's popularity

[coldbeer]

7. my wife got married forty years ago

to me

[Mnemosyne]

12. Belated congratulation on forty years, coldbeer! And welcome to du... nt

[Tumbulu]

14. This is where the "like" button would be nice (nt)

[TrollBuster9090]

22. *LIKED*

[bluedigger]

8. I hope they are very happy!

They have a world of possibilities ahead of them.

[onehandle]

9. At least Facebook has some sort of link to humanity.

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I look forward to the day they buy Google and bury it.

[Ikonoklast]

29. Google is currently ten times more profitable than FB, based on market cap.

FB's business model will fail as soon as membership plateaus...and that day is coming.

GM abandoned FB just the other day due to poor response to advertising on FB.

[onehandle]

31. How's that Google+ going? All of the Mountain View Ad Agency's 'products' are being usurped...

...by other companies. Nobody can compete with Facebook.

They're both ad spammers at their core, but only one has true competition.

Google+, btw, is universally considered to be a ghost town. Google is paying celebrities to use it. It's not making a difference.

[tru]

37. Google, being evil n/t

[truthisfreedom]

10. My very best wishes to both of them.

I hope they get exactly what they want.

[KamaAina]

11. How convenient.

Now he gets to file as married.

On his California return as well as federal.

While we're facing a $16 billion, with a B, budget gap.

And even at that, he isn't the real villain; that'd be his henchman who renounced his U.S. citizenship right before the IPO.

[TrollBuster9090]

23. Yeah, he's obviously a BRAZILIAN at heart, because

an American would have just stashed the money in the Cayman Islands and told Singapore to go fuck itself. That's the American way, post Phil Gramm.

[Staph]

13. At least he's not wearing a hoodie!

Her dress probably cost more than $10,000, and he can't even tighten his tie.




(rant) It bugs me that women are highly criticized if they don't dress properly for the occasion, but men can generally get away with anything. (/rant)

[azurnoir]

15. I wonder what the 'pre-nup' says she gets if the

dislikes start piling up?

[JI7]

16. they have been together almost 10 years

one thing i like about Zuckerberg is even though he is wealthy he doesn't have the wealthy douche lifestyle. though he is wealthy because of so many douchebags who use his site.

[Odin2005]

33. That's because he's a nerd.

We nerds hate the "wealthy douche" lifestyle.

[nanabugg]

17. Congrats to both. May they have a long and fulfilling marriage. nt

[alphafemale]

18. They look really happy.

I wish them the best.

[qanda]

25. I hope people who are planning lavish weddings take notice

This is how a billionaire gets married and then poor people spend all the money they don't have to impress people that they don't like to get the exact same status.

[Mz Pip]

41. This is so much cooler

than the Kardashian high profile bullshit that people seem to suck up.

I think it speaks well of the both of them that they had a simple ceremony in his backyard. They could have had a cast of thousands. And he could have had just about any glamour wannabe model on the planet. Good on him for sticking with the one who's been with him all these years.

Good luck to them.

[qanda]

46. Yes. This is so much better.

Even though I didn't spend a lot on my wedding, 17 years ago, it was still much more than I could afford at the time. I really wish I had more sense then and had just done something simple and saved that money for my future. I wish them all the best also.

[4th law of robotics]

47. Gaudy displays like that (overly expensive weddings) are a way of showing off your wealth

and impressing others.

When you're Mark Zuckerberg you don't really have to impress anyone.

[Ian David]

26. I would totally like to poke her.

[BeyondGeography]

27. A second income always helps

[Poll_Blind]

30. I hope they're happy. I've known some really rich people who are miserable.

Money doesn't seem to (always) help in that regard. I hope they're happy together. A happy heart does wonders for a person's behavior.

PB

[marble falls]

34. He can finally afford the ring.

[mainer]

35. Rupert Murdoch/Wendi Deng. George Soros and Jennifer Chun

What is it with rich white guys and asian women?

[Bucky]

38. Uh, Priscilla Chan is American

Two successful young people start a life together and that's what you notice? Sad.

[muriel_volestrangler]

39. What is it with people who notice race before anything else?

It says in the story they met at Harvard 9 years ago - before Facebook ever started. She was just a fellow student.

Maybe since about a third of the world's women can be categorised as 'Asian', it's not surprising to find a few "rich white guys" dating or marrying them. How many rich white guys can you name? How many white women do you think they have dated or married?

[mainer]

40. Speaking as a member of a minority myself

I just find it sociologically interesting.

And yes, I should have said "of Asian extraction," because "Asian" doesn't refer to nationality, only to race.

Also interesting to note that Asian/White couples have the highest incomes in the US:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/us/pew-study-americans-more-accepting-of-interracial-marriage.html

I just wonder about this phenomenon.

As an aside, when I was in high school, I was told by my (white) boyfriend that he could never marry me because I would "hurt his business prospects" since I was a minority. I have to laugh about it now, because I've out-earned him many times over.

(p.s., minorities ALWAYS notice race. Only white people claim it's "sad" that race is ever noticed.)

[JI7]

43. Zuckerberg is not in the same category as Murdoch and Soros here

Chan and Zuckerberg have been together almost 10 years. they met in college, she was with him before facebook and any other fame and money he got from it.

[mainer]

44. Soros's girlfriend is also highly accomplished

And I seem to remember that Wendi Deng was a businesswoman?

I'm just interested in the recent phenomenon that makes interracial relationships more and more acceptable (and it's especially apparent because these are wealthy people in the news), which is so different from when I was growing up.

It used to be that marrying outside one's race really did have a stigma attached to it, to the point that parents forbade their children to marry because it would destroy their prospects of success. I had one friend who was left at the altar because her rich white boyfriend's mother told him she'd disinherit him if he married a "chink". The jerk cared more about his inheritance than he did about his fiancee, so he didn't show up on their wedding day.

I really love seeing the high visibility of these partnerships -- it signals to the world that interracial relationships are not only acceptable, but are being practiced by people who have every choice in the world.

[JI7]

48. i'm referring to your comment about wealthy white guys and asian women, since Zuckerberg wasn't

wealthy when he started dating Chan . she was with him for years before he got money. they are also the same age.

also the white guy asian girl couple thing is pretty common among all income levels.

[mainer]

49. "wealthy" ensures media coverage. And that's what makes these so interesting.

Because it means there's visibility in the press that interracial marriages are now accepted, even among conservatives like Murdoch.

In fact, if you look at the NYT income numbers, it seems as if it's the asian half (either male or female) who brings money into the match.

[JI7]

50. in the case of Soros and Zuckerberg,they are Jewish and i think it was more common or accepted

for them to be with non whites longer than for white christians. probably because they were seen as outsiders also .

i also find that Australian and some european men are more open to dating/marrying outside their race than some in the united States.

[mainer]

51. I think it's more that Jews and Chinese, anyway, have many cultural similarities

And may have more affinity that way.

[PavePusher]

36. Still trying to figure out why I should care.

Oh, wait, no I'm not...

[Ruby the Liberal]

52. She looks beautiful!

I love it. More money than God himself, and they have a laid back wedding that people don't even know is going to be a wedding.

Weddings: Yer doin' it right.