Considered a decade ago the second richest person in the world, Mark Zuckerberg has lost more than half of his fortune over the last year and is about to drop out of the top 20.
According to the Bloomberg agency’s billionaires index, the founder and current CEO of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, went from having a net worth of $125 billion to $56 billion on Tuesday. .
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Zuckerberg is ranked 20th among the wealthiest people in the world, although in 2012 he was considered the second richest person after the debut of Facebook on the Nasdaq stock market in New York.
A year ago, the company Zuckerberg runs was valued at more than a trillion dollars.according to information from Bloomberg.
However, as of September 13, 2021, Meta accumulates a loss of 60% or 618 billion dollars.
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The Bloomberg index indicates that the American is the millionaire who has lost the most fortune in the last year, who is already surpassed by the Mexican Carlos Slim, Honorary and Life President of the Board of Directors of América Móvil, whose wealth is located in position 13, with 69 billion dollars.
Nowadays, the list is headed by Elon Musk, director of the automaker Tesla, whose assets are valued at 256 billion dollars; while in second place is Jeff Bezos, creator of the online sales company Amazon, with 150 billion; and third, Gautam Adani, founder of a multinational conglomerate involved in port development and operations in India, with 147 billion.
Zuckerberg has seen his fortune fall from the hand of the price of the shares that his company has had in the last year, considered the seventh most valuable company in the world.
Meta closed this Tuesday with a capitalization of 454 billion dollars, its lowest record in the last two and a half years, specifically since March 23, 2020, when the company still bore the name of Facebook and the pandemic had just been decreed.
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Mark Zuckerberg lost more than half of his fortune in the last year