Mark Zuckerberg gets richer, now he is third in the world

NEW YORK – The world will be angry at him, but Mark Zuckerberg continues to enrich himself. According to the Bloomberg news agency, which manages the list of the 500 richest individuals in the world, the founder of Facebook, 34, has taken a stand: since last Friday, is raised to third place legendary Warren Buffett. Facebook managed not only to survive the privacy scandal exploded last winter, but to flourish again: social networking headlines had fallen to just over $ 152 in March this year, but Friday closed at 203.23, a new record.

And it is this record that triggered a Mark. Now the top three places of ultramiliardari are occupied by technology representatives: Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, 54, is leading with $ 142 billion, while the second is Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, 62 years old. claims 94.2 billion. Until now, Warren Buffett, 87, was the oracle of Omaha, chairman and principal shareholder of investment firm Berkshire Hathaway. Now there is the young Zuckerberg, whose fortune is estimated at 81.6 billion, against the 81.6 Buffett.

For some mesa it seemed that the Cambridge Analytica scandal had forever marked the social network created by Zuck. It was discovered that Cambridge, an badytics and policy consulting company, was able to obtain personal data from millions of Facebook members, buying them from an app creator who had been able to collect them claiming to have used them for university research. On the wave of scandal, Cambridge Analytica has failed, but Facebook seems to have recovered brilliantly, giving its creator billions more.

Bloomberg keeps the list up to date, recording the weekly wealth changes. And according to the calculations of the economic news agency, among the five hundred also appear seven Italian names, led by Leonardo del Vecchio, founder of Luxottica, which occupies the 31st place with a wealth of 23.5 billion of dollars. Giovanni Ferrero follows, on the 32nd, with 23.1 billion dollars. He then moved to 139th place with Paolo Rocca, CEO of Techint Group, which, according to Bloomberg, reached $ 10.2 billion. Giorgio Armani is instead ranked 175th with $ 8.5 billion, while Silvio Berlusconi ranks 203rd with $ 7.6 billion. In 451st and 45th place are the couple Patrizio Bertelli and Miuccia Prada, each of them with a personal wealth valued at 4.21 billion dollars.

Again, the name misses the name of Donald Trump. The president's fortune is unofficially estimated at about $ 3.10 billion. Not enough so for the list. The five-hundredth name on the list of the richest in the world is actually that of Denis O. Brien, a 60-year-old Irish founder of the Caribbean's largest mobile phone service provider. O & # 39; brien "worth" $ 3.89 billion

And with respect to Buffett's fourth place, it should be noted that the engineering of the investment would always be in first place if this n & # 39; 39, was his generosity. In recent years, at the instigation of his friend Bill Gates, Warren Buffett has donated to the charity hundreds of thousands of shares of his company, worth more than 50 billion dollars to date.

For his part, Zuck and his wife Priscilla have promised to give the charity during their lifetime 99 percent of the titles on Facebook.