*Let’s hope you don’t have a problem with social media mogul Mark
Zuckerberg, after all, according to an article in the Huffington
Post, you’re helping make him the ‘World’s Richest Person.’
With a surge in Facebook’s stock on Thursday to $76 a share from $71,
the net worth of the chairman and CEO of Facebook jumped about $2
billion before he had even finished breakfast. This, only one day after the
company announced it
had made roughly one entire buttload of money in the previous three months.
According to the site, by close of business on Thursday, Zuckerberg was richer
than fellow computer nerds Larry Page and Sergey Brin, co-founders of Google.
He was richer
than Amazon CEO and Lex Luthor clone Jeff Bezos.
Bloomberg
News says Zuckerberg is now the world’s 16th-richest person.
How close is he to being No. 1? Probably not far off, if things keep going this well.
Around this time last year Facebook’s stock was trading at $34. Today it has
more than doubled, selling for $75. Fortunately for Zuckerberg, he has managed
to hold onto 22 percent of Facebook, again according to
Bloomberg — a larger stake than Page, Brin or Bezos have in their
companies.
The social media site is said to have more stock-market value than Amazon,
and some day Facebook could be worth as much or more than Google,
which now has a market value of almost $400 billion. Zuckerberg’s share of a
Facebook worth $400 billion would be $88 billion — or $3.3 billion more than
the current net worth of world’s richest man Bill Gates.
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