Mark Zuckerberg becomes the third richest man in the world

Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, has just become the third richest person in the world, according to the billionaire Bloomberg index.

Now, the young multibillionaire follows just Jeff Bezos, of Amazon, and Bill Gates, of Microsoft the two other giants of technology who occupy positions one and two on the list With a net worth of $ 81.6 billion stole the third position of investment tycoon Warren Buffett for some $ 400 million, thanks to an increase of nearly 5% on the value of your shares on Facebook.

Last Friday, the social network closed with the best performance in a year, setting a new record of almost $ 205 for each of its nearly 2.4 billion shares in the market , according to the Nasdaq report.

Bearing in mind that the young entrepreneur owns nearly 13% of Facebook shares, his fortune grew by nearly $ 8.8 billion in less than 24 hours .

Thus, the leader of Silicon Valley made it clear that he recovered from the blow that struck the scandal of Cambridge Analytica a situation that caused his stock to fall at around $ 157 in early April. this year, when it appeared that the company had shared user information for political purposes during the presidential campaign of Donald Trump .

At that time, market badysts had lost confidence in their ability to prevent malicious agents exploiting the personal information of the nearly 2.2 billion Facebook users around the world ].

Yet, the tech mogul does not plan to own his fortune forever. On the contrary, he plans to invest up to 99% of his Facebook wealth in biomedical research and science education through the Initiative Chan Zuckerberg an entity nonprofit that co-founded with his wife Priscilla Chan, as stated in a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

"… during his lifetime, he will donate or he will lead substantially all his actions on Facebook … to advance humans and promote equality through philanthropy, political advocacy and advocacy. Other activities for the public good, "reads the letter