Mark Zuckerberg and wife
A self-made billionaire has made history by becoming the youngest person ever to have over $100 billion. The co-founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has become the youngest person ever to be worth over $100 billion.
The 36-year-old self-made billionaire has a current valuation of
$104 billion and is presently the fifth richest individual on earth.
The $780 billion valued social media juggernaut, owners of
Instagram, WhatsApp business has over 2.5 billion monthly users. It’s
initial public offering about a decade ago was the largest-ever
technology IPO at the time.
Zuckerberg’s present wealth valuation can buy 60.2 million troy
ounces of gold or about 1.52 billion barrels of crude oil. He currently
has about $2.93 billion in cash and the majority of Zuckerberg’s fortune
is derived from a 13% stake in Facebook. The 36-year-old billionaire
had some day ago revealed plans in giving away about 99% of his Facebook
shares over his lifetime, according to a December 2015 SEC filing.
In addition, the centi-billionaire is known for modesty amid his
high wealth valuation on the account that he drives an affordable car
and wears basic clothes but appears to have a high taste for premium
real estate properties.
Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have over the years invested
billions of dollars into childhood education and medical research.
Meanwhile, the American-based billionaire announced about a day ago
that Facebook plans to support people get vaccinated against the
COVID-19 virus. He said:
“We’re launching a global campaign to help bring 50 million people a step closer to getting Covid-19 vaccines.
“First, we’re launching a tool that shows you when and where
you can get vaccinated and gives you a link to make an appointment. This
will be in the Covid Information Center, which we’ll show people right
in their News Feed. We’ve already seen people use Facebook to find
vaccination appointments, so this should enable millions of more people
to do the same.
“Second, we’re bringing the Covid Information Center to Instagram, and we’ll show it to people prominently there too.
“Third, we’re working with health authorities and governments
to expand their WhatsApp chatbots to help people register for vaccines.
More than 3 billion messages related to Covid have already been sent by
governments, non-profits, and international organizations to citizens
through official WhatsApp chatbots, so this update will help with the
vaccination effort as well.”
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