Mark Zuckerberg surpasses Jeff Bezos and wins the title of second Scrooge in the world, behind only Elon Musk. The CEO of Half – according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index – it’s worth it 210.7 billion dollars against i 209.2 of the founder of Amazon. Stratospheric figures but far from the 262.8 billion of the patron of Teslafirmly in his position as the richest man in the world. The richness of Zuckerberg is linked to Halfof which it has approximately 13%.
The ex’s titles Facebook have risen this year by approximately 70%increasing his fortune by 78 billion. And it is not excluded that this could grow further: the CEO of Half it has in fact only 40 yearsless than 53 that it took to Musk to build his empire and far less than Warren Buffettwho amassed his wealth after i 65 years old. Zuckerberg he founded Facebook In the 2004 and priced it at Wall Street In the 2021: Half it is now the sixth largest company in the world by market capitalization with a value of almost 1,500 billion dollarsmore than Berkshire Hathaway Of Buffett and of Tesla Of Musk.
The 2024 for the ex Facebook is proving to be a particularly good year, with investors pushing it higher from its second quarter quarterly results, when it revealed a revenue increase of 22%in what was the fourth consecutive quarter of growth above 20%. Yet the 2021 and the 2022 they haven’t been easy years, between the privacy updates of iOSthe operating system of Appleand the massive cost-cutting plan that resulted in the output of approx 21,000 employees.
A cut that, however, Wall Street was also appreciated because it was accompanied by the recovery of online advertising thanks above all to the campaigns launched by the Chinese giants Temu And Shein. Although Half continues to spend billions of dollars on the virtual and augmented reality technologies needed for the metaverseinvestors are being more tolerant about investments, at least as long as advertising, the company’s core business, continues to run. The prototype is part of this investment Orion Arthe “most advanced glasses the world has ever seen”, as he defined them Zuckerberg during the latest developer conference.