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The Facebook IPO is making dozens of people phenomenally rich. How rich? Check out CNBC's list of top shareholders, see and the amounts of their Facebook windfalls as they move based on the real-time price of the shares.

He famously wears a hoodie, jeans and sneakers, and he was born the year Apple introduced the Macintosh. But Mark Zuckerberg is no boy-CEO. Facebook's chief executive turned 28 on Monday, setting in motion the social network's biggest week ever.

On Thursday, Facebook finally filed for its IPO. As the site that made it possible for you to reconnect with your third-grade girlfriend moves into the next phase of its life, we decided to look back at some of the high points in Facebook's brief but captivating history.

Now that Facebook has filed its IPO paperwork, we've gotten our first real glimpse at the inner workings of the world's largest social networking website. No shock, the company's fundamentals are impressive, but here are a few of the numbers that may surprise you -- and what they mean.

A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? Being as wealthy as a quarter of the households in the United States combined. That may soon be the state of the Facebook founder's finances; the company plans to go public at a valuation of $100 billion dollars.

On a split-adjusted basis, Apple went public at $2.75 a share 31 years ago; the stock closed at $378.25 yesterday. Investors lucky enough to hold for the entire period have enjoyed a 17% annualized return. Find a founder capable of delivering on a similar scale and you'll have a much easier time funding your retirement.

The nation's wealthiest are worth a combined $1.53 trillion, according to Forbes. And while there are many familiar faces on this year's list of the richest Americans, a younger group of entrepreneurs are marching their way up the ranks.

Even if you recently considered quitting Facebook, or you already have, you might still wonder: How does Mark Zuckerburg do it? You've heard all the rumors: He's a hacker, a dropout, and a naive or immature geek. But, he's also created something that has changed the world forever. The Palo Alto,...

There has been a lot of talk lately concerning the ethics of Facebook's privacy policy. And it seems there are just as many critics as supporters. Popular opinion ranges from folks criticizing the social network's corporate approach to user information as lucrative marketing fodder, to defenders of...

There's an old saying that if you make a better mousetrap, then the world will beat a path to your door. While a new mousetrap has yet to surface, the tales of Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page demonstrate that changing the world can be the quickest path to fame and riches. Most of the...