Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he doesn't know how much he's actually worth.
Last week Facebook hit a landmark number: 500 million registered users. Put into geographical context, Facebook has enough members to be the third most populous country in the world. At the head of this virtual country sits 26-year-old Mark Zuckerberg.
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Zuckerberg is the founder and CEO of Facebook, which he started while attending Harvard just six years ago. And while he may have never finished Harvard, no one can call him a quitter.
The founder of the most influential social media network online admits he doesn't even know how much he is worth. He does know, however, that as the CEO of the company that holds the largest database of personal information -- aside from the government -- he has a responsibility to his subscribers. And he tells host Guy Raz that he has no intentions of selling or giving that database away.
"I just think it would be the stupidest thing we could possibly do," he says during a forum held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif.
Zuckerberg tells Raz it's not the data that makes Facebook valuable.
"I think it's really easy to say that there is all this information that Facebook has," Zuckerberg says. "What Facebook is today isn't a set of information, it's a community of people who are using Facebook to stay connected and share information. They are only going to do that as long as they trust us."
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SOURCE: NPR
