By Burnett Munthali
It’s the first time Zuckerberg has broken into the top three on Bloomberg’s ranking of the richest people since Nov. 16, 2020, when he was worth $105.6 billion and Musk’s fortune was $102.1 billion. Musk now has a net worth of $180.6 billion; Zuckerberg’s is $186.9 billion.
Zuckerberg took the company public in May 2012 with majority shares. In 2008, at age 23, he became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire. He has since used his funds to organize multiple philanthropic endeavors, including the establishment of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
Mark Zuckerberg is the founder, chairman and CEO of Meta, which he originally founded as Facebook in 2004.
A 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook in 2004 for students to match names with photos of classmates. Zuckerberg took Facebook public in 2012; he now owns about 13% of the company’s stock. Facebook changed its name to Meta in 2021 to shift the company’s focus to the metaverse.
Facebook made a lot of people millionaires but it made 10 people billionaires. The stock opened today at $38 per share. Using that price, Bloomberg calculated the net worth of Facebook’s richest employees and investors. They’re now worth ten or eleven figures.
Instagram, a photo and video-sharing website and app, is owned by Meta. Instagram launched Oct. 6, 2010, and was acquired by Facebook in 2012 for $1 billion.
As CEO Jan Koum said onstage at D: Dive Into Mobile on Tuesday, WhatsApp is now bigger than Twitter, which officially claims 200 million monthly active users.
Delfin’s portfolio includes EssilorLuxottica holdings, shares in insurer Generali, banks like Mediobanca and UniCredit, and real estate developer Convivio. After inheriting his father’s wealth, Clemente became the world’s youngest billionaire at 18.
It was in the year 2014, February when Facebook purchased Whatsapp and now it is owned by the owner and founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg.
Formerly known as Facebook, and its co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is a major shareholder and the CEO. Google is owned by Alphabet Inc., and its co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were major stakeholders, but they stepped down from their executive roles.
Back in 2004, Andrew McCollum designed Facebook’s first logo for his Harvard classmate, Mark Zuckerberg. We wondered who the mysterious face was, or if it was even a real person. Indeed, it was. The face is that of Al Pacino.
