From Mark Zuckerberg to Richard Branson: Here Are 5 Amazing Leadership Lessons From Famous 'Dadpreneurs'In honor of Father's Day, check out these famous business leaders who teach us how fatherhood and entrepreneurship are powerful bedfellows.

ByCarolyn Sun

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Mark Zuckerberg

The CEO and founder ofFacebookhasn't been a dad for very long but he's been extremely public about his adoration toward his daughter. WhenMark Zuckerbergand his doctor wife Priscilla Chan became parents to Maxima "Max" Zuckerberg last November the 32-year-old tech billionaire tooktwo months paternity leavefrom Facebook, one of the few U.S. companies to offer up tofour months paid paternity leave.

“研究表明,当父母工作需要时间to be with their newborns, outcomes are better for the children and families,"Zuckerberg explainedat the time in a Facebook post.

He also posted on Facebook anopen letter to his daughter, in which he describes his hopes of the sort of world he'd like her to grow up in, while also announcing that he is pledging 99 percent of his $46 billion fortune to his joint charitable foundation with his wife.

"As you begin the next generation of the Chan Zuckerberg family," he wrote, "we also begin the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to join people across the world to advance human potential and promote equality for all children in the next generation. Our initial areas of focus will be personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people and building strong communities." The point of his donation, he wrote, is to move the needle to better the world.

Mark Zuckerberg with his new daughter Max

While Zuckerberg clearly doesn't have a lot of free time while helming the biggest social-media company in the world connecting1.65 billion active users, as of data from March 2016, it's clear that fatherhood has changed his leadership for the better. It not only has made him want to better the world through his massive reach and fortune, but it's also enhanced his brand as a Silicon Valley leader, making him more accessible and humanized through one warm-and-fuzzy Facebook post at a time.

Here are four more famous entrepreneurs who give fatherhood a good name.

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Elon Musk: Good parenting is both in the details and carrying out a long-term vision

Elon Muskis not only the CEO ofTeslaandSpaceX, but he is raising a team of children to be the next generation of tech pioneers. Musk is father to five -- that's right,five-- young boys: a set of twins and triplets.

When asked how he manages juggling both his demanding career and raising five children, he replies in earnest, "With great difficulty."

Parental challenges aside, Musk is very involved in his children's upbringing,saying in an interview, "We made model rockets the other weekend. Also I like playing video games."

While Musk has gotten some criticism over his quirky and sometimes insensitive behavior -- it wasreported in Ashlee Vance's 2015 biographyElon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Futurethat he once berated an employee for skipping work to attend his wife's childbirth (a fact which Musk denies) -- it is clear that the South African-born entrepreneur is supremely invested in his children's education.

According to theUK Telegraph, unsatisfied with the schools his kids were attending in Hawthorne, Calif., Musk started his own exclusive school calledAd Astra(Latin for "to the stars") for his own children and others -- 15 kids in total -- inside a mansion in Mountain View, Calif. run by three teachers he'd handpicked.

And like most futurist dads, he harbors some far-out hopes and dreams for his own kids,saying, "I hope they'll be able to travel to other planets… perhaps even to see a self-sustaining base on Mars."

Related:8 Things My Dad Taught Me About Entrepreneurship and Life

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Bill Gates: Teach your kids to find meaning in their work

When billionaire philanthropistBill Gatesstepped down as executive chairman ofMicrosoft, the company he co-founded with Paul Allen in 2008, he publicly pledged to leave the bulk of his$75.6 billion fortuneto charity.

His motivation, Gates explained in aTEDTalk in Vancouver in 2014, is that he wants to encourage his kids "to make their own way in the world without the help of billion-dollar trust funds."

Instead, the founder of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation wishes to enable his children with an amazing education "so they can learn how to rely on their own abilities," tellingWiredthe importance of his kids having "a sense that their own work is meaningful and important."

It's obvious that Gatesharbors high regard for his own parents, both of whom he'd clashed with as a surly and precocious tech geek growing up in Washington.

However, his mother was influential in Gates' decision to devote his fortune to good works and his father William Gates Sr., a retired lawyer, works closely with his son to help him run The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Richard Branson: Success in business is really important -- but family is first

Like Zuckerberg,Richard Bransonis one of the few industrialists who has institutedpaid paternity leave-- an entire year -- atVirgin, the company he founded in 1970.

While Branson has made headlines for his risk taking and joie de vivre, he is also a father to three children and remains extremely tight with his 91-year-old mother,Eve Branson, a grand dame who works on various charities with her famous son, including The Eve Branson Foundation and International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children.

The British entrepreneur shared the meaning of family with theGuardianin 2015, when he told the publication:

"My family means the world to me, much more so than business. We are lucky to be very close-knit and that cousins, nephews and nieces all get along. Being a grandparent is going to be a lot of fun… so I'm looking forward to spoiling them and seeing my family's happiness increase."

Related:Life as a Dad-trepreneur: Balancing Fatherhood and a Startup at the Same Time

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Warren Buffett: Earn respect and love through your accomplishments and behavior -- not fortune

Like many successful business leaders, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (worth$65.7 billion) has been a workaholic for the majority of his 85 years. However, it's clearWarren Buffett'shumble ways and lifestyle left an impression on his three adult children.

His 58-year-old son Peter tellsBusiness Insiderthat his upbringing was very modest and normal, and he didn't realize the scope of his father's fortune and influence until he was about 25.

"I walked to public school... I had the same English teacher that my mother had… [Finding out] was very gradual ... The truth is, it just wasn't around... We didn't grow up around the exposition of wealth."

In fact, by the time Buffett's children knew about their father's wealth, they were already formed and developed as adults,says Buffett.

"[My kids] knew who their friends were," he explains, "and their friends were their friends because they liked "em, and not because they were the rich kid on the block or anything of the sort."

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