Mark Zuckerberg Is Now The Third Richest Person In The World

As Facebook'southward stock price continues to climb charts, its co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has now overtaken Warren Buffet to become the third-richest person on planet Earth.

First reported by Bloomberg, Marking Zuckerberg's net worth is at present an astonishing $81.6 billion. He at present but trails after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos ($142 billion) and Microsoft founder Bill Gates ($94.2 billion).

So the iii wealthiest people in the earth all made their fortunes through tech companies they started in their youth. This is too the first time that the elevation three spots have been taken by tech moguls from Silicon Valley.

As for Warren Buffet, the 87-year-old business organization magnate and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Incnow holds the fourth spot with a net worth of $81.ii billion.

Facebook'south share prices have been rise lately, with investors once once more ready to place organized religion in Zuckerberg and Facebook, which has been plagued by a ton of problems and controversies over the past few months. Despite the major scandals, the social networking behemothic strongly bounced back as the stock cost rose 2.4% on Friday, reaching $203.

The social media giant had been nether fire simply recently for mishandling the data of their users. Facebook's ties with marketing analytics company Cambridge Analytica are currently under FBI investigation, but in that location's no denying the fact that the data of over 87 million users was compromised and used for election campaigns and other key referendums.

While the #DeleteFacebook campaign looked like being a huge blow to Facebook, it petered out and even Zuckerberg's appearance before the Us lawmakers was a dud affair.