Mark Zuckerberg is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist who has a net worth of $114 billion. This makes him the third richest person in the world. The vast majority of Mark’s fortune is attributed to his shares in Facebook.
Currently, he owns about 400 million total shares of Facebook, he also owns around 12 million Class B shares. Through those shares, Mark has 53% voting rights over the company. Technically, Mark also controls co-founder Dustin Mosokovitz’s class B voting rights, so Mark has around 58% of the company’s total voting power. Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth topped $100 billion for the first time on August 7, 2020.
Mark Zuckerberg Early Life
Mark Zuckerberg was born in White Plains, New York on May 14, 1984. He is the son of Edward and Karen. In middle school, Mark began using computers and software. He attended Ardsley High School for his freshman and sophomore years. He also attended Philips Exeter Academy and then enrolled at Harvard in the fall of 2002.