What this also means that Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now wealthier than Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
A Bloomberg report states that Zuckerberg has added $1.6 billion to his fortune on Thursday, after shares of the world's largest social network closed at a record. The surge puts Zuckerberg 30-year-old's net worth to $33.3 billion, moving him past Brin, 40, and Page, 41, as well as Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, 50, on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
While now Zuckerberg is at No. 16 sport on the ranking, the Google founders are 17th and 18th. Bezos occupies the 20th spot.
“The company's performance also propelled the fortunes of other Facebook shareholders, including Dustin Moskovitz, the 30-year-old who started the social network with Zuckerberg at Harvard University a decade ago, and Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's 44-year-old chief operating officer who became one of the world's youngest female billionaires in January. Sandberg owns about 9.9 million shares valued at $740 million and has collected more than $550 million in share sales,” adds the report.
