Facebook Founder, Zuckerberg Now Richer Than Two Google Founders


The sale of its shares up on Friday to the public has made Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Facebook, as the 29th richest person in the world according to Bloomberg. Zuckerberg's wealth is slightly above the wealth of the two Google founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who each came in at 30 and 31 of the world's richest man. With the stock price 38 dollars on the initial offering, Zuckerberg has a wealth of 19.3 billion dollars, while Larry Page has a wealth of 19 billion dollars and Sergey Brin as much as 18.9 billion dollars. Even so rich, Zuckerberg is not too concerned about their money. As stated by the author of The Facebook Effect, David Kirkpatrick. This is a success for everyone, and can not be called anything else



The success of the inaugural sale of shares to the public Facebook also provides a blessing for some others, like the other co-founder. Dustin Moskovitz, Facebook's roommate at Harvard, has a wealth of 5.1 billion dollars. Meanwhile, Eduardo Saverin, who had stripped U.S. citizenship, has an estimated wealth of 2.7 billion dollars. Another co-founder of the Christopher Hughes, has a wealth of $ 836 million dollars.

Investors who are blessed Peter Thiel. With an initial investment of $ 500,000 in 2004, now he has a wealth of 2.7 billion from Facebook. There's also Sean Parker, who along with Thiel met Zuckerberg at a Manhattan restaurant in 2004. Facebook president Sean Parker is the first, and now has a wealth of 2.8 billion dollars from Facebook because they were given almost as much as 70 million shares. Facebook COO, Sheryl Sanberg, also a billionaire. Sandberg is moving from Google now has 27 million shares of Facebook is now worth a billion dollars. Mark Pincus, founder of Zynga, also has 4.3 million shares of Facebook. Thanks to Zynga and Facebook, Pincus has a wealth of 1.3 billion dollars. Russia's richest man, Alisher Usmanov, also has a stake in Facebook through the controlled Global DST Yuri Milner. From there, Usmanov gain on investment of 1.1 billion dollars in the Global DST. source

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