Facebook Founder Richer Than Google's Founders - The more luck was blanketed Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Last news even mention if the former of Harvard student is now richer than the two Google founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. That’s because of new investment coming into Facebook.
Earlier this week, a company called GSV Capital Corp. purchased 225 thousand shares of Facebook at a price per share is USD 29.28. These shares increase the value of Facebook to be in the range of USD 70 billion.
Quoted by the Times of India and Time magazine this a new investment also increase the Zuckerberg's wealth to $ 18 billion, after the early years, 'just' touching USD 13.5 billion.
Amazingly, now the amount of Zuckerberg’s property believed to have exceeded the duo founder of Google - Sergey Brin and Larry Page - whose their wealth is estimated to decline to $ 17 billion from USD 19.8 billion in March.
"With the new valuation, Zuckerberg outperformed the two Google founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, whose wealth is estimated to have declined," the Times reports.
These estimates also make Zuckerberg became the third richest person in the world's in the technology sector, after Bill Gates of Microsoft and Larry Ellison of Oracle.
Currently Gates still has a net worth of USD 56 billion, while Ellison pocketed a net worth of USD 39.5 billion at the same time placing him as the fifth world's richest billionaire.
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