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Mark Zuckerberg married
- cr4zy 14y agoIf you're not on Facebook, it's just this pic. http://imgur.com/zxZkN http://imgur.com/zxZkN
- mojaam 14y agoThere are people not on Facebook? I keed, I keed :)
- dragonsky 14y agoCall me a Luddite, but I don't have a Facebook account. But then again, I don't have friends, so I don't see the need.
- strait 14y agoFacebook is the best thing that's ever happened to me. The people from my past that I really don't want to converse with are likely tied up in their simple little Facebook world by now. Let them wonder why I'm not on Facebook. Problem solved!
- kevinpet 14y agoI have a Facebook account, I just refuse to login to it unless I want to actually access my Facebook account.
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- sneak 14y agoIt's ok, the tracking cookie they leave on your machine while you're logged out will eventually correlate to a login session and they'll have your browsing history anyway.
- jon6 14y agothank god this is on hacker news
- unimpressive 14y agoWhy? I mean, I know it's interesting to think about how you manage Facebook and a marriage at the same time, but this news doesn't seem god-thankingly urgent. EDIT: Ah, sarcasm. The bane of net conversations everywhere.
- rosser 14y agoSpeculation: sarcasm.
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- thesis 14y agoI think he was being sarcastic... That's how I read it.
- tar 14y agoI think being a multi-billionaire makes managing everything easier.
- surement 14y agoIt made your comment so much funnier than the one you were replying to. Edit: great handle too!
- zackzackzack 14y agoI wonder how thick the stack of pre nup papers are.
- adventureful 14y agoI seriously doubt there was a pre-nup. California would shred through it anyway.
- mahyarm 14y agoHow do you know they signed the marriage paperwork? A wedding isn't a paperwork party and CA isn't a common law marriage state.
- stephengillie 14y agoAs erdemozkan stated in a duplicate discussion: Mark married Priscilla one day after the IPO. That means they were waiting for IPO to get married. Sorry for asking a question that may seem obvious to others, but why were they waiting for the IPO? Is it for financial or legal reasons, such as a Community Property State? Did Zuckerberg sign a prenuptial agreement? An internet search implies he didn't. This reminds me of Tom Leykis' advice that everyone have a prenup, for many reasons. On the other side, some spouses have created companies by divorcing a business owner and taking half of the company. How has Mark Zuckerberg protected his ownership of Facebook from his marriage? How would you? [1]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3997659 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3997659
- citricsquid 14y ago> While the date of the wedding was timed to Zuckerberg’s birthday and Chan’s graduation, the IPO was a moving target, our source says, and was definitely not part of the whole plan. http://allthingsd.com/20120519/just-married/ http://allthingsd.com/20120519/just-married/
- amateurguru 14y ago> Did Zuckerberg sign a prenuptial agreement? An internet search implies he didn't. Yes. That's exactly the kind of questions that Google helps you solve.
- waterlesscloud 14y agoGiven how carefully he has protected his stake thus far, it would be very surprising if he had not done a pre-nup.
- dragonsky 14y agoMy understanding is that he's been with this girl since Facebook started anyway. I'd be surprised if she did not have a fair stake in Facebook even if she were not married to Mark.
- tommyvyo 14y agoCongrats to him. May this be the happiest day of his life. I'm not all about hating on a man just like you and I, just because he made it and we didn't (haven't?).
- aaronsw 14y agoDid they also hack this to autopost to Facebook?
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y agoOf course, the ring had a wireless electromagnetic sensor and Mark was using gloves so it only triggers when he puts it on her finger.
- xpose2000 14y agoMan, this kid is having the time of his life right now. How can any guy beat IPO + married in two days? Good for him, and take that vacation while you still can! From what I hear, the pressure starts to build when your a public company. Those quarterly earnings should be interesting.
- reason 14y agoYeah, what a wild ride it must be for him right now. Suppressing the urge to feel envious is proving to be increasingly difficult.
- dkokelley 14y agoYeah, pressure from people who have authority to fire you. I don't think that's the case for Zuckerberg. "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." (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47491836/ns/business/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47491836/ns/business/) Does anyone know what sort of recourse the minority shareholders and the other 44% voting holders have if Mark runs the company into the ground?
- rgrieselhuber 14y agoPretty sure he's not planning on running it into the ground.
- nnnnnnnn 14y agoNo on said he did. Nobody plans on running companies into the ground. It still occurs with unsurprising regularity. Lots of interesting books out there which talk about why.
- rwmj 14y agoUnfortunately people do plan to run companies into the ground (usually so they can exit the smoking shell with a fat profit) which is why these laws are necessary.
- iag 14y agoI'm kinda disappointed that he didn't wear his trademark hoodie to the wedding like the way he did to the IPO roadshow. :/
- derefr 14y agoI'm not--someone who takes marriage more seriously than running a multi-billion-dollar company, has their priorities straight. :)
- dbbolton 14y agoThis really stimulates my intellectual curiosity.
- Alex3917 14y agoI guess his girlfriend finally got tired of seeing wedding ads every time on Facebook.
- SoftwareMaven 14y agoLike being married helps with that...
- theorique 14y agoThat's a rather eventful 36 hour timeframe for Mark. I wonder what it all felt like?
- fusiongyro 14y agoBased on the picture, I'd guess "exhausting."
- theorique 14y agoYeah, he looks a bit dazed.
- joering2 14y ago"According to David Kirkpatrick's book, The Facebook Effect, Zuckerberg met Chan while in line to use the bathroom at a Harvard University party. The pair dated on and off again in college, but maintained a relationship as the Facebook CEO rose in prominence in the technology world." What really interests me, at this point, how do you know that she truly loves him?? Its hard to know that when regular people like me and you date, and here we are having a pair that dated "on and off" for a while and now one side got filthy rich. Perhaps I am spoiled and I never loved anyone, but in his shoes, I would have never really believed she is in it for love. Sorry.
- no-espam 14y agoHe's not too smart is he? Married in CA right when the money starts rolling in. HALF! I hope he has a good prenup.
- ivankirigin 14y agoThis is one of the most disappointing threads I've ever seen on Hacker News.
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- loverobots 14y agoOn the other hand the reality is that divorce does happen and for people with $20 billion fortunes is different. I wonder if the Google founders have prenups in place.
- petercooper 14y agoThough to be fair, if you have a lavish lifestyle and go from $20bn to $10bn, I suspect it's going to hurt a lot less than having say $4m and losing half.
- tomjen3 14y agoYeah, because we accept reality -- if you get marriaged you are more likely to get divorced than not.
- heretohelp 14y agoNot everyone is as utterly consumed with money as you are.
- simula67 14y agoIt may not be about the money. If Prescilla has played a major role in making Facebook the $100B company then its OK. However there is no point splitting the company in half, because she was married to the founder. There is no need to demonize prenups here.
- bewareofdog 14y agoTax break.
- ComputerGuru 14y agoThis is very off-topic, but then again, the entire thread more or less is. So with that disclaimer: does anyone else think he looks like a much, much slimmer, younger Michael Caine?
- rgc5 14y agothey married because she finished med school, not because of the IPO.
- Drbble 14y agoThat would be quite a motivator for PChan to stick through the MD slog.
- stevenj 14y agoWow, what a week for the two of them! Monday: she earned her MD. Friday: Facebook goes public. Saturday: they get married, to the surprise of their guests. [1] [1] http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-zuckerberg-marries-girlfriend-20120519,0,3666424.story http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-zuckerbe...
- faramarz 14y agoThe last week for Zuckerberg: Monday: Girlfriend got M.D. Tuesday: 28th birthday. Friday: IPO. Saturday: Married. http://twitter.com/#!/gizmosachin/status/204032145591767040 http://twitter.com/#!/gizmosachin/status/204032145591767040 Amazing!
- sparknlaunch12 14y agoWhy is he wearing a suit? Where his the hoodie? Seriously - money has changed him! Jokes aside, not many can boast a week like that. Wow!
- jasonwatkinspdx 14y agoI'd guess that the first two are coincidence, and the latter two chosen. Interesting to try and see a person just through the purity of fact of choice rather than media narrative.
- JohnLBevan 14y agoWas the IPO Hackathon his stag do?
- reledi 14y agoWhat an exciting week, definitely one he'll remember for a lifetime!
- treyp 14y agonot that it makes a big difference, but his birthday was on monday for accuracy's sake
- pknerd 14y agoActually it's Monday, As per Wiki Entry his DOB is May 14. I know it because mine is May 15 :D
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- zotz 14y agoHN is now reddit?
- ComputerGuru 14y agoI see a lot of posts regarding gold-digging and motives - and I just want to say that if there's one person you can marry knowing what their true intentions are, the only thing better than a college girlfriend is a high-school one :) (Kinda like Mr and Mrs Obama)
- reneherse 14y agoAbsolutely. Gotta hand it to a couple who's kept it together for over nine years, through the birth and growing pains of an unprecedented company, and med school to boot. Congratulations!
- cheez 14y agoUnless they're crazy in which case all bets are off. However, I think these two have sufficiently vetted each other.
- gry 14y agoI first saw the news on CNN and groaned at the headline. http://cl.ly/0S0Q1D1D2c1y1I42393B http://cl.ly/0S0Q1D1D2c1y1I42393B Yet, it seems to be fact. I believe Zuck believes Facebook is the vehicle for these announcements and interactions, ergo his play. The announcement via FB is fair and true. I think it's a good move. I'm disheartened to see it right after the IPO. It's rare a wedding happens overnight, let alone an IPO, so it feels deliberate to me. And yet, given how blindsided they were with Beacon and its ilk, I can imagine the circumstance being nothing more than. tl;dr: I don't understand Zuckerberg or Facebook.
- jdhouse4 14y agoPeople should be happy for Zuck and Pricilla. Any claims by those who don't know Pricilla that this is other than for love should really get a check-up on their humanity. Not that they'll ever read this, but congrads to them both.
- strait 14y agoHey, not bad.
- pg 14y agoCongratulations Mark and Priscilla!
- boyter 14y agoFrankly that's all that needed to be said. No talk about pre-nups, IPO's or Facebook. Just that a high profile, but obviously loving couple tied the knot. Makes me smile just thinking about it. Congratulations to them both as well.
- huggyface 14y agoCould I have some of that cheese for my sandwich? You don't know them, I'm fairly confident. I don't know them. Almost no one here knows them. The single and only reason this has any relevance is because of Facebook, IPOs, from which a natural discussion is pre-nups, etc. Or are we to all pretend that we're pals?
- Locke1689 14y agoIt's inspiring for me that Mark went through such an incredible ordeal in the founding of Facebook but he was still able to make it work between him and Priscilla. It shows that you can have a relationship while also trying to change the world (and, hell, your partner may be what gets you through).
- diwank 14y agoCongrats Mark.
- johnhartigun 14y agoDo you think they will read that? Congratulating on his FB or Twitter would be more effective :)
- Shalen 14y agoCongrats Zuck and Priscilla! I don't understand some of the materialistic comments (prenups etc.) on this thread. Zuck marrying his long time love is a beautiful blessing. PG, I'd met Zuck after you had invited him to your startup school 2007 and since then have interacted with him. He also kept his word on followups he'd announced during his talk then. He is such a humble person despite all his successes. I'm so happy for him.
- loverobots 14y agoChan's ring featured only a "very simple ruby," a source authorized by the couple to speak told the AP. That explains why she isn't smiling :) . Seriously people, smile for crying out loud. You know billions of people will see that picture over the years.
- philwelch 14y agoBut I thought Facebook ran on PHP!
- andrewcooke 14y agoeh, this comment seems like a fractal snapshot of the whole thread. why on earth do you feel any kind of right to be telling some random people you don't know how to behave? why does hn feel the need to have some private moment from these people's lives on the front page? why does this matter to me, a hacker? but is a wedding private? isn't it a public statement? why does a hacker like zuckenberg (sp?) need to make a public statement like this (i've been living w the same person for 20 years and neither of us see a need to get married)? and why rings? what the kind of ancient property-related crap is that? but that gets back to public statements. and why can't he do his tie up - he looks a mess? and now am i as bad as the person i am replying to? and most of all, why take a photo with their washing line in the background?
- kzahel 14y agoIf I were Mark I would proceed to run the company into the ground. Just for fun.
- shmerl 14y ago> You must log in to see this page. Fail.
- tersiag 14y agoCongratulations Mark and Priscilla!!! ps. He is wearing a suit to honor HIS WOMAN. He is showing her that he can suit up for her
- dfh99 14y agoplease don't think of her as "HIS WOMAN" (or him as her man). this implies ownership, and marriage is not about ownership. he might have worn it out of respect/love for her, yes.
- switch007 14y agoThe formal definition may mean 'possession', but English doesn't always work like that. Sometimes we say or write things that depend on the context/geography/community for the true meaning. It's not black and white. Also, I think tersiag was stressing the person for which he wore a suit, not that he wore a suit for HIS woman (instead of someone else's woman).
- dfh99 14y agoMark's wife (yes, i think this expression is much better) is still not "his woman". no woman belong to no man, and vice versa. Priscilla is her own person, just as Mark is.
- tomjen3 14y agoPlease stop that PC nonsense. Marriage is ownership -- they have a monopoly on each others sexual-ability and in the event of a divorce they will properly have to split the money fifty-fifty.
- pacomerh 14y agoWhen I look at Mark, it's hard for me to look at him as a regular human being, he has so much people under his position I tend to forget guys like him can also get married and laugh about small jokes. With that much money, how do you get to trust anyone?, how do you talk to new friends knowing they're telling you the truth. That's why I think he's some kind of cyborg. Well I wish him good, and I think he's made a great decisions by still keeping facebook under his control.
- theorique 14y agoI suspect it helps that he was dating this girl since before The Facebook. She was, presumably, into him before he was "The" Mark Zuckerberg.
- pknerd 14y agoHope and wish that relationship will not go up and down and severe hiccups like Stock Shares.
- stroboskop 14y agoI cannot comment on the content at all because I can't access the submission. Pages submitted to HN should simply not be behind login walls, which is why I flagged this. This thread already has multiple references to the fact that you have to log in to see the submitted post. There are many HN users without a FB account. For them, the headline of the submission cannot be verified by clicking on the link. Although there is a large intersection between the two groups of HN and FB users, you don't have to be signed up with any other webservice in order to use HN. This is not only about FB. As a matter of principle posts to HN should be accessible for all HN users without requiring them to sign up with any other webservice. However, this is up to PG and the HN community. It would be good if PG provided a guideline whether submissions behind login walls are accepted or not.
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- waterhouse 14y agoExcellent point. Fortunately, at least in this case, we can resolve the issue somewhat by taking a screenshot and linking it: http://imgur.com/zdUDf http://imgur.com/zdUDf (Edit: cr4zy already addressed this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3997613 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3997613) (On a similar note, I've done some online math contests that gave the problems in Word .doc format. Once, on a collaborative contest, OpenOffice was not sufficient; there were images that got misaligned or didn't even display. I took the documents, sent them to an online Word -> PDF converter, and posted the results to the shared email account "for great justice". Things like not having Word should not be barriers to doing math contests.)
- tripzilch 14y agoThanks. To be fair, they seem a cute couple and the pic made me smile.
- alecbenzer 14y agoDis-allowing links like this seems extreme. I think appending something like "[requires facebook]" to the title as a matter of etiquette would work. As a kind of loose analogy, no one really has problems with links to pdfs, but you don't need to have a pdf reader to sign up for HN (and I often see the "[pdf]" notice appended to such links).
- staunch 14y agoThis thread really is an embarrassment. Ugh.
- joshu 14y agoOk. In what way is this Hacker News?
- theorique 14y agoFacebook Founder -> Facebook -> Hacker-centric culture -> Hacker News Three degrees of separation isn't too bad.
- bromagosa 14y agoYeah, I too was surpised by how many people in the HN community love gossip news...
- mkr-hn 14y agoRandom celebrity gets married: off-topic Tech celebrity gets married: 200+ votes Reddit is at least aware of the inevitable failings of any successful community and lets me hide boring stories and collapse boring discussion threads.
- prodigal_erik 14y agoFounder drops out, amasses nearly unimaginable legitimate wealth comparable to Gates' theft, then marries for love to an accomplished and attractive partner. His story so far should inspire any nerd going through the Startup Pit of Despair.
- sodelate 14y agoZuckerberg,congratulations
- stesch 14y agoPlace 1 on the front page of hacker news? WTF?
- phenom 14y agoTotally agree... Is it gossip news or something?
- matthew-wegner 14y agoFor the HN crowd that likes random behind-the-scenes details: In the photo, the sun is low and behind them. This makes great rim light--and looks fantastic through the veil--but it also means you need to use strobes or a reflector to light their faces. It's probably a reflector, gold side up, something like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/justin_fotog/6018934549/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/justin_fotog/6018934549/ They're super glare-y to look at; it's kind of hard to keep your eyes open and make any kind of normal face...
- xxbondsxx 14y agoIt's really common to see people squinting / looking horrible with reflectors. I would guess a flash because Priscila looks quite relaxed, and most wedding photographers work without assistants.
- cdcarter 14y agoI would guess that a Zuckerberg wedding afforded a second shooter and/or assistant.
- matthew-wegner 14y agoYeah, I wasn't sure here! You can usually tell based on the highlights in the eyes, but the photos I found weren't high-res enough to tell. Apparently it was a surprise wedding, and they didn't even tell the photographer until last minute: http://fstoppers.com/zuckerbergs-photographer-also-caught-off-guard-by-wedding http://fstoppers.com/zuckerbergs-photographer-also-caught-of...
- tezza 14y agoMazel Tov to Mark & Priscilla . Nice simple way to have a wedding.
- democracy 14y ago"in front of a very small number of family and friends, around 100." indeed...
- whereas 14y agoNow she just has to divorce him and take half the company.
- JosephHatfield 14y agoCan you imagine if Mark had married a man? Now THAT would have been interesting, if only for the media reaction. Now trying to guess who would have been the perfect husband for him... :)
- wslh 14y agoThe photos are not tagged! shame on you Mark!
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- jiggy2011 14y agoI wonder how many mistresses he is allowed?
- lincolnwebs 14y agoYou know how I know he's in love? He put on a tie.
- bromagosa 14y agoSorry but... how is this relevant?
- dumbfounder 14y agoI think he just needed some financial security before he settled down.
- gouranga 14y agoPerhaps it's the British in me, but yawn.
- benblodgett 14y agoRegardless of your individual opinion of Zuckerberg, it is really sad that this thread contains comments outside of "Congratulations". He is a large part of tech whether you like it or not, and should be considered a peer that merits nothing but support on his special day.
- QuarkSpark 14y agoWhen/How/Why did HN turn into an entertainment gossip site?
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- commonersense 14y agotl;dr On the heels of his decision to accept the public's money, Mark Zuckerberg ensures for himself a future tax break.
- stalert 14y agoOff topic. If you're bored: insanitology.com [just a few funny interesting vids]
- ptrklly 14y agoWhether it's rational or not, this makes me like Zuckerberg a lot more. It seems like a good way to keep your head focused on what matters, to marry the same week that your company goes public.
- djahng 14y agoThe title is fine, I had no trouble understanding it. The ambiguity of "married" did not lead me to believe that Mark acted as officiant in a wedding ceremony, nor did the open-ended past tense of of the term lead me to believe that Mark was married 150 years ago. If you can't access the page that the link points to, and are really concerned about the truthiness of the title, then there's this website called google.com that makes finding answers fairly simple. If you think that this is celebrity gossip and that searching for the truth would be a waste of time, then don't...