Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg co-founded Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, the world’s leading social network. Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Meta achieved $164.5 billion in revenue in 2024.

With over 3 billion daily users, it also made history with the largest tech IPO when it went public in 2012.

Zuckerberg’s fortune mainly comes from his 13% stake in Meta Platforms, according to a February 2025 filing. 

As of January 2025, Meta serves around 3.4 billion daily users. Mark Zuckerberg owns his shares through trusts and holding companies, and he plans to donate 99% of his shares throughout his life, as stated in a 2015 SEC filing.

In 2016, he began selling shares to fund philanthropic causes. While Bloomberg’s calculations exclude the value of these sales, Zuckerberg still retains credit for shares he intends to donate since he still owns them.

His cash investments are valued based on insider transactions, including Facebook share sales, company filings, taxes, property investments, and charitable contributions.

Biography of Mark Zuckerberg

Education: 

Zuckerberg was born in White Plains, New York. At Phillips Exeter Academy, he showed early promise as a programming prodigy. 

After graduating, he enrolled at Harvard University, where he created Facebook in his dorm with three friends. Facebook’s rapid growth led him to leave Harvard and move to Silicon Valley.

In 2004, Peter Thiel invested $500,000, followed by further investments. 

By the end of that year, Facebook had almost 1 million users. 

Despite its success, Zuckerberg faced legal battles with co-founder Eduardo Saverin and others who claimed Zuckerberg stole the idea for Facebook.

In 2011, Facebook settled privacy violations with the Federal Trade Commission, agreeing to a 20-year settlement. The company went public on May 17, 2012, setting a record for the largest tech IPO at the time. 

Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to donate most of his wealth to charity. 

In 2010, he donated $100 million in Facebook stock to Newark’s public schools and later gave 36 million shares to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have two daughters. In 2015, he committed to giving away 99% of his Meta stock to charity during his lifetime.

How are the world’s richest individuals determined?

The Bloomberg Billionaires Index tracks the wealth of the world’s richest individuals, updating daily based on market shifts. 

It calculates net worth using the latest stock prices and exchange rates. 

The index provides a detailed breakdown of assets, including stakes in publicly traded companies, taxes, and investments.

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