Billionaire Baby Season: Mark Zuckerberg Is Welcoming His Third Child

It looks like all of the billionaires are having infants proper now. First, Tesla CEO Elon Musk out of the blue publicizes a secret baby. Now it’s Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s flip to bask within the child glow.

Zuckerberg introduced on Wednesday that he and his spouse Priscilla Chan expect their third daughter subsequent yr. Zuckerberg wrote on Instagram, “Lots of love. Happy to share that Max and August are getting a new baby sister next year!”

The couple have already got two daughters, Max and August, born in 2015 and 2017, respectively. Chan and Zuckerberg met at Harvard in 2003 at a frat celebration and have been married for a decade.

Facebook, which modified its identify to Meta final yr, has at all times been a type of third wheel in Chan and Zuckerberg’s relationship. The couple bought married one day after Facebook’s preliminary public providing in 2012. According to the Wall Street Journal, Chan made Zuckerberg take her on one date per week and required not less than 100 minutes of time collectively and not spent at his firm’s workplaces.

When Max, brief for Maxima, was born, Zuckerberg and Chan wrote her an open letter and posted it on Facebook. In the letter, they introduced the creation of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, which makes use of philanthropy and expertise in an goal to eradicate illness and enhance training. The new mother and father pledged to dedicate 99% of their Facebook shares, or about $45 billion at the moment, to the initiative. The shares are price significantly much less now, given the 60% decline of Facebook’s inventory worth this yr.

The couple continued the letter tradition when their daughter August was born. Unlike the primary letter to Max, which was very lengthy and critical, Zuckerberg and Chan’s letter to August appeared extra lighthearted and private.

“Even though headlines often focus on what’s wrong, we still believe these positive trends will win out. We’re optimists about your generation and the future,” they wrote to her.

Max and August reside fairy story lives in comparison with the remainder of us non-billionaires, Zuckerberg mentioned in a 2019 interview with CBS that he and Chan don’t purchase their daughters every part, and made a degree to say that the ladies have chores. This was well-documented on Facebook that yr, the place Zuckerberg posted a video of the teeny women rinsing dishes and loading the dishwasher.

New Chan-Zuckerberg child, we might not know a lot about you, and even your identify, however we gamble that we do know this a lot: You may also get a letter out of your mother and father, and additionally, you will have chores. Best of luck.