Mark Zuckerberg wired together nearly 1 billion people on the Web. Now the ambitious young entrepreneur is building another kind of community, this one out of bricks and mortar. Construction is booming along a bustling stretch that cuts through the center of Facebook Inc.'s campus in Silicon Valley, which construction started in 2011. Here the social networking giant is designing its own Main Street, putting in storefronts that will cater only to Facebook employees, whether they're in the mood for a straight-razor shave or nigiri rolls. As reported The Los Angeles Times it will be called "Zucker Burg". Unlike the days of Henry Ford and George Pullman, when industrialists built towns surrounding manufacturing operations, Facebook is bringing retail shops onto its sprawling private campus on the outskirts of Menlo Park where there are few commercial establishments other than fast-food joints. The company is subsidizing the construction; handpicked merchants will offer discounted prices to employees. High-tech superpowers such as Google Inc. and Facebook are engaged in an escalating race to pamper employees with free food and luxuries such as complimentary laundry and dry-cleaning services. But Facebook had to come up with new carrots when it moved its headquarters a few months ago to a suburban outpost at the edge of tidal mud flats and salt marshes cut off from the rest of Menlo Park by a six-lane highway.
The youngest billionaire, Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook social network, and his girlfriend Priscilla Chan rent a house with a monthly payment in Palo Alto, CA near the headquarter of the famous company. Zuckerberg house was built in 2002, has an area of 353 square meters (3800 square feet), 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. Clearly, Zuckerberg can afford to build or buy the most expensive luxurious house, what really seemed to stem the move, is the location. Now, Zuckerberg lives only a few steps away from Facebook Headquarters. This surely comes in handy since he reportedly spends as much as 16 hours a day at the office and comes home only to sleep. Mark clearly does not want to change the neighborhood and prefers to live as close as possible to his "working nest", as he previously also rented a house in the same area. His previous house was smaller- only 183.5 square meters (1.976 square feet), also had 4 bathrooms, but the number of bedrooms were only 3, and besides it was much further- seven blocks away from workplace. The young billionaire even allowed Oprah's (57-year-old American billionaire actress best known for her talk show "The Oprah Winfrey Show", the World's Most Powerful Celebrity on Forbes' 2010 celebrity list and the Most Influential Person in Show Business in 2009.) camera crew inside his home for an exclusive look at his modest dwelling place and office. (watch video)However, not only Zuckerberg surprises everyone with his quirks. For example, David Packard, the billionaire and co-founder of Hewlett-Packard lived and died at his 139 square meters (1,500 square feet) home also near Palo Alto. Another well-known IT-mogul Sergey Brin, Google co-founder and one of the richest people in the world, until 2006 lived in a simple three-room apartment, until he married ... That is how live people, who are fully devoted to the job they love. Thus, they are creative, gifted and happy in their own way.
