PROFILE
Mark Zuckerberg
Cofounder, Meta Platforms
$99.4B
$292M (0.29%)
Real-Time Net Worth
as of 6/20/23#10 in the world today
- Zuckerberg started Facebook at Harvard in 2004 at the age of 19 for students to match names with photos of classmates.
- He took Facebook public in May 2012; he now owns about 13% of the company's stock.
- Facebook changed its name to Meta in November 2021 to shift the company's focus to the metaverse.
- In June 2021, a judge dismissed antitrust cases brought by states and the federal government, which could have forced Facebook to sell off Instagram and WhatsApp.
- In December 2015, Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, pledged to give away 99% of their Facebook stake over their lifetimes.
