Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is 12% richer than in January 2018

The CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg reached third place in the list the richest entrepreneurs in the world with an estimated $ 81.6 billion in fortune, according to Bloomberg estimates. This contrasts with the US $ 72,800 million recorded on January 1, 2018, when it ranked fifth among the top ten billionaires. In six months, Zuckerberg's fortune has increased by 12%

The last year has also been profitable for the executive, since on July 8 last year he recorded a fortune of 64.7 billions of dollars. From that moment until two days ago, when Bloomberg recorded the current balance of its fortune, the amount increased by $ 16.9 billion and increased by 26%.

However, Zuckerberg's finances went through a complex time between March 18 and March 27, following the scandal of the British marketing company Cambridge Analytica, responsible for a massive $ 50 million data theft. Facebook users around the world. This incident caused the social network to lose $ 37,000 million in one day and its CEO's fortune dropped by $ 4,900 million the same day.

Similarly, the number of Zuckerberg money-boxes continued to fall between April 18 and 27, from $ 75,300 to $ 62,200. Over the course of the nine days, the manager's fortune dropped by 17.4%, causing him to lose $ 13.1 billion in total.

Despite the fall, Zuckerberg's recovery afterwards was dazzling as she rose 31%. to get 19.400 million US dollars from March 27th to today.

The technology expert, Diego Santos, mentioned that Zuckerberg's third position in the rankings of the richest "was a matter of time", and he assured continue to climb "in the coming years.

"Your company has a customer base of 2.2 billion subscribers and is a monopolist, with Google, the Internet advertising market," he adds

. of the executive and his company was the good result of Igtv, the new Instagram tool since the end of June that allows the creation of videos of up to 60 minutes in vertical format.This social network was acquired by Facebook in 2012 with a value of 1,000 million US dollars.

The tool, created the same day, has exceeded the 1,000 million users of Instagram as a goal to challenge YouTube by encouraging network users to publish more content long and create their own channel.

Thanks to this new tool, in addition to its advertising activity, the firm eMarketer estimates that Instagram will generate profits of US $ 5,480

The founder of CocoNut, Juan Pablo García, pointed out that "Facebook is the social network where there is the most profitability for brands when it comes to doing and doing future business. "

Zuckerberg has recovered a good percentage of his fortune in recent months, but has also helped position US $ 400 million over Berkshire Hathaway's CEO, Warren Buffett, and US $ 5,500 million on The founder and former president of Inditex, Amancio Ortega, respectively fourth and fifth.

This recovery did not allow Zuckerberg to surpass the two richest entrepreneurs in the world: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, whose fortune $ 142,000 and $ 94,200 million, respectively.

Bezos' leadership in ranking the richest men in the world is due to the good behavior of the online retailer. For example, the new independent medical services company that Amazon, JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway have created in order to provide medical care at lower costs than the current market and the current market. buy two weeks ago PillPack, an online pharmacy that will allow you to get into the drug market.

The 10 richest rose nearly 10% n six months

According to Bloomberg, the top ten richest men in the world currently have a total income of $ 774,000 million, while in January of this year, they amounted to about $ 708.2 billion. In the first half of 2018, the wealth of the top ten richest millionaires in the world increased by 9.3%. Of the 10 entrepreneurs that make up this ranking, six of them come from the technology sector and seven are from the United States. The only Latino is the Mexican Carlos Slim.