Heba Press – Agencies
Mark Zuckerberg became the world’s second-richest person for the first time yesterday, Thursday, surpassing Jeff Bezos, as Meta stocks continued to climb.
According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Zuckerberg’s bet on the “Metaverse” led his net worth to reach $206.2 billion, $1.1 billion ahead of Amazon’s Bezos and about $50 billion behind Elon Musk from Tesla.
He added that Mark Zuckerberg’s bet on Metaverse initially seemed like a huge mistake, especially after he lost more than $100 billion of his net worth. But now it is paying off.
Zuckerberg, who owns a 13 percent stake in the Menlo Park, California-based company, has seen his wealth increase by $78 billion so far this year, the largest growth among the 500 richest people in the world. world followed by the Bloomberg index.
The 40-year-old co-founder and CEO rose four places this year in the wealth index.
