Which CEO co-founded Facebook and has been its CEO since 2004?

Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook and has served as its CEO since 2004.

Zuckerberg launched the service at Harvard in February 2004 with Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. It began as a campus network called “TheFacebook,” then expanded to other universities and eventually to a much broader audience. Zuckerberg remained the company’s chief executive as it grew from a student project into a global technology business.

Facebook became a public company in 2012, and its corporate parent was renamed Meta Platforms in 2021. Zuckerberg is still commonly described as Facebook’s CEO because Facebook remains one of Meta’s major products; he is also Meta’s chairman and CEO. The other options are executives associated with major technology companies, but Jack Dorsey led Twitter, Evan Spiegel co-founded Snap, and Sheryl Sandberg was Facebook’s former chief operating officer—not its co-founder or CEO.