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Forget Diamonds, Mark Zuckerberg Married His Long-Time Girlfriend With A Ruby Ring

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This is not an image of the actual ring  Jay Tamboli via Flickr

Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg shocked everyone, including the wedding guests, when he and his long-time girlfriend Priscilla Chan wed yesterday.

No one even knew the couple was engaged; less than 100 guests attended the event but thought they were being gathered to celebrate Chan's recent med school graduation.

The billionaire gave his bride a "very simple ruby" he designed, the AP reports.

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Alyson is the Editor-in-Chief and CCO at Fortune.  She was previously a co Editor-in-Chief overseeing Business Insider's tech and business coverage.She joined Business Insider in July 2008 as the company's sixth employee. She started as a sales planner before joining the editorial team in 2010, where she became a startup reporter and was first to cover some of today's largest tech companies, including Pinterest, Tinder, Instagram, Uber and Snap. Alyson rose to become a senior correspondent, then Executive Editor.She was appointed Editor-in-Chief of Business Insider in 2016, at which point she became the youngest and only woman to run a global business publication. Under her leadership, the business division has grown to hundreds of  millions of monthly readers.Alyson was a host of  Insider's conferences and launched a podcast, "Success! How I Did It," where she interviewed influencers ranging from Sheryl Sandberg to Steve Ballmer about their career paths (subscribe on iTunes here).She has appeared on ABC, Good Morning America, Al Jazeera, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, and CBC, and she has interviewed media personalities such as Megyn Kelly, technology leaders like Fred Wilson, political leaders like John Brennan, and sports star LeBron James. She is a judge for the prestigious Gerald Loeb Awards in business journalism, and has been named one of Min's Rising Stars in Media, as well as Folio's 2017 Top Women in Media.She graduated from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications, where she majored in psychology and advertising.You can read some of her investigative articles here:Leaked videos reveal the true founding story of SnapchatThe founder who dumped Jared Kushner: Inside the phone call that left the White House star in a fit of rageThe downfall of billion-dollar startup, FabHow a startup that raised the largest seed round in Silicon Valley history blew itself up before it even launchedThe dark side of Facebook, where people lie, cheat, and make millionsA profile of Uber's controversial CEO, Travis KalanickThe mystery of Jody Sherman, a founder who was driven to suicide and left behind a shocking business disasterDisclosure: Alyson owns bitcoin and Snap. She is also an investor in The Spun, a sports-media startup founded by her husband.