David A. Marcus is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on April 12, 1973 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.
David Marcus (born April 12, 1973) is an American entrepreneur. He is the co-creator and a board member of Libra, a cryptocurrency project initiated by Facebook. He is the former president of PayPal and Vice President of Messaging Products at Facebook where he ran the Facebook Messenger unit from 2014 until 2018. In December 2017, Marcus was appointed to the Coinbase Board of Directors, from which he stepped down in 2018.
Marcus started his career in 1996 at age 23 when he founded his first venture, GTN Telecom, a Geneva-based provider of internet access and local- and long-distance calling. He served as the Chairman and CEO of that company until it was acquired by World Access in 2000. Soon after, Marcus founded Echovox, a mobile media monetization company. In 2008, he founded Zong, an offshoot of Echovox that allowed users to pay for items online directly through their mobile phone bills.
