Mark Zuckerberg is already the third richest person on the planet – 07/07/2018

Facebook CEO, Marck Zuckerberg managed to outperform investor Warren Buffet, as the third richest person in the world, despite the scandal with Cambridge Analytica ] that involved your business in the mbadive filtering of private data from over 87 million users.

The co-founder of the social network has remained only behind Jeff Bezos CEO and founder of Amazon, and Bill Gates the co-founder of Microsoft at the Billionaires Club, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires index.

Mark Zuckerberg, aged 34, has a fortune valued at US $ 81,600 million. In this way, he surpbaded the so-called "Oracle Omaha" by 373 million more, for his proven wisdom in the field of investments.

This is the first time in the history of the list that the top three places are occupied by executives from the technology industry.

The rise of Facebook's CEO is due to the resumption of shares in the stock market, which rose 2.4% after the privacy scandals that engulfed the network social and which in March led to the collapse of the actions.

87-year-old Warren Buffet and president of Berkshire Hathaway, has become the richest person in the world, but has given up this position since he's started to increase his donations in 2006, according to Bloomberg. The same year, he announced his plan to divest himself of 99% of his fortune which he promised to allocate to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Source: ANSA