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People are quick to discuss Mark Zuckerberg

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However, the billionaire Facebook founder's
wife has an eye-opening story of her own

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Here are some things you may not know about Priscilla Chan. Zuckerberg famously
went to Harvard University, and that's where he met the love of his life

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in line for the bathroom at a frat party in 2003. Chan was also attending
the Ivy League school, and the two brilliant students apparently had

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an instant connection. In addition to her
book smarts and intense knowledge of science

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The philanthropist is also fluent in not one,
not two, but three languages. She told Today

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"'I grew up speaking Cantonese at home, English,
obviously from school and growing up here.

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She also speaks Spanish, which she chose to learn
for an incredible reason — to better help her

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patients. She explained, "'You can be a better
provider and really connect better with individuals

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if you can speak their language. And so I started
studying Spanish in college and get lots of

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practice in my work." Chan may have gone to Harvard,
a university famous for producing captains of industry

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politicians, and other notable public figures,
but her life goal is to help people in any

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way she can. Perhaps that's why she started the Chan
Zuckerberg Initiative, an organization she founded with

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her husband that, according to their website,
works on "...preventing and eradicating disease

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improving learning experiences for kids, and reforming the criminal justice system." Chan told Quartz back has been part of my
life before I even met Mark Throughout my schooling and my career I kept seeing problems affecting children students and adults

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So much so that she felt there was,
quote, "'A fundamental lack of hope.'

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With that in mind, the Chan Zuckerberg
Initiative was born. Chan added

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"'So what if we take that lens of a frontline
practitioner, if we take the tall set of building

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technology, what niche might we be able to fill
in the world of actually making social impact?

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During an interview with CNN Business to discuss
CZI, Chan admitted that she hates the spotlight

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but will make appearances to help her organization.
I'm here because people told me it'd be good for CZI

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No one's ever been that candid with me in an interview. One of the most
infamous aspects of Zuckerberg is that he seems to almost always be wearing

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the same outfit, despite being insanely rich. In
many public appearances, speeches, and events

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Zuckerberg is seen wearing a hoodie, and while
people have criticized him for his clothing

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choices, his wife Chan will never be one to
do so. In fact, she's become something of a

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hoodie apologist for her hubby, telling Today in 2014, He's graduated to a
nicer hoodie, one that's nicer and softer, so he's really excited about that

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I'm happy with whatever he wants to wear, as
long as it's appropriate for where we're going

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So he can't wear it to weddings, and he can't wear it
to baby showers, but he can do whatever else he wants

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Some women might be appalled if their husband always wore the same thing But not Chan She added pro hoodie He wears a fresh hoodie every day so
that pretty much meets my lowest barrier for him When Zuckerberg first got back together with Chan after a breakup things weren all peachy keen

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The couple is happily married now, but once upon
a time, they had some serious compromises to make

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In fact, in order for them to work things out,
Chan had one specific stipulation. In the book

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The Facebook Effect, author David Kirkpatrick
wrote about how Chan and Zuckerberg allegedly

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negotiated the terms of their relationship
after they got back together and before they

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got married. Kirkpatrick wrote, "...while they wouldn't live
together, they would spend a minimum of 100 minutes of time

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alone each week and have at least one date,
which would not be either at his apartment

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or at Facebook." Those claims are yet to be verified,
and it's not exactly commonplace to hammer out relation

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details in contract form, but the rumors
suggest it works for Chan and Zuckerberg

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Despite her vast riches, Chan isn't a big
spender. In fact, Zuckerberg's wife is a

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super practical when it comes to money. As
a source told The New York Times, in 2012

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when Chan was out shopping with her sister-in-law,
she saw an expensive pair of shoes she liked

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Her sister-in-law told them she should just get them
since she has money now, but Chan reportedly responded

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When it comes to Chan and Zuckerberg's
joint business and philanthropy venture

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CZI, Chan has found a way to balance her
work and personal life. She told Quartz

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It not a hierarchy We have to walk the balance of our decisions Zuckerberg offered some insight in the same interview saying
used to go out to dinner to talk about CZI one night a week but that felt weird over time because we also go out on dates

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I just think psychologically you want to have
different places, so now we carve off time

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like our one-on-ones.'" "'Who started date night? Whose
idea was that?' "'It's Mark's idea.'" "'Really? Yes.'

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Chan clearly knows how to juggle her work
and personal life, and make it work for her

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entire family. Chan may be one of the most powerful
women in the world, married to one of the most

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powerful men in the world, that she still has
to find her own way to express her emotions

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Speaking with Quartz, Chan came right out with it,
saying, "'I want to tell you up front, I'm a crier.'

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"'You have this way of communicating kind of the
soul of something that I think it's inspiring.'

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One of Chan's colleagues explained, "'When she's feeling
exhausted or overwhelmed and sometimes when she's really ecstatic

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it's just one of her ways of expressing. But
all that emotion doesn't bring her down when

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she's working, as Chan is as cool as a cucumber in
stressful situations. One of Chan's co-workers shared

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"...she was so calm under pressure, really
quick thinking, even dealing with something

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really stressful, she had total capacity to deal with it." With Zuckerberg
at the helm of his massive, arguably culture-changing social media platform

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and Chan smoothly running its philanthropic wing,
this pair is a total professional powerhouse

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and it sounds like they managed to do it all
with an eye on a healthy work-life balance

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Thank you