On Thursday, Facebook‘s record close brought in $1.6 billion into Mark Zuckerberg‘s account.
His net worth has increased to $33.3billion, surpassing the founders of Google Sergey Brin and Larry Page, as well as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
According to Bloomberg, a chunk of the money came from mobile advertising sales. The shares of the social networking site are soaring. It has gained 183% in the past 12 months.
In the billionaires index, Mark is now ranked No. 16, while Google founders are ranked 17th and 18th.
Bill Gates still remains the world’s richest man with $84.7 billion..