During the year 2023, the wealth of the head of the Meta Platforms "Mark Zuckerberg" grew a record high of $44.3 billion.
According to Bloomberg, Zuckerberg's entire fortune is estimated at $89.9 billion at the moment, making him the list of the richest billionaires around the world.
According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Zuckerberg ranks 12th among the richest people, and ranks first among the rich in terms of the amount of his wealth increasing since the beginning of this year, followed by the head of the Louis Vuitton Bernard Arnault, and Elon Musk came in the third place.
On Friday, Meta shares traded lower by 0.93% at $244.55 as broader markets fell in response to uncertainty over the debt ceiling.
According to journalists, Zuckerberg bet on the Metaverse, sought to spend whatever it takes to control this part of the company, and at some point, his fortune decreased by more than $100 billion, although only a few years ago he was the third richest person in the world.
In early February, after mass layoffs of Meta employees, Zuckerberg earned $12 billion a day, and the company's stock value rose by more than 50%, after a significant fall.
Last November, Zuckerberg announced that he would lay off more than 11,000 employees, equivalent to 13% of the total workforce in Meta.
As of 2022, Meta employed 86,482 full-time workers.
According to Statista, in 2022, Meta Platforms generated more than $116 billion in revenue, which is less than its revenue in 2021, which came to $117 billion.
Meta spends more than $15 billion in marketing, which accounts for $1 billion more than in 2021.
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