Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth stands at $219.9 billion as of January 24, 2025, according to Forbes. He is currently ranked fourth on the Forbes’ World Billionaires List, slipping one spot down from the third position earned in 2024. Zuckerberg is known to be the youngest to make it to the top 100 billionaires list and also almost a decade younger than the top 30 billionaires.
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From Harvard Dropout to Billionaire Entrepreneur
Zuckerberg was only 19 when he first conceived the idea of making a platform for students to judge their fellow students from pictures. Later, Zuckerberg and his four Harvard college roommates, namely Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, enhanced the platform into a place to connect with friends, post information, and share messages easily. What started as a student’s friend search project quickly became one of the first and largest social media platforms globally.
Facebook was floated in 2004 and with its imminent success, Zuckerberg took the entity public in 2012. Except for Zuckerberg, the other co-founders left their executive roles after four years, which means Zuckerberg alone is responsible for bringing Facebook to its current successful model that it boasts today.
The billionaire did not stop there, he went on to create/acquire a handful of other successful social media apps and built the company into a giant Family of Apps (FoA) business, which now includes WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, and Facebook.
Zuckerberg’s Changing Fortunes
A decade down, amid rising competition in the social media space and the growing popularity of the metaverse, Zuckerberg renamed Facebook as Meta Platforms (META) in October 2021. The ticker also changed from FB to META in June 2022 to resonate with Zuckerberg’s larger-than-life metaverse ambitions. Currently, Zuckerberg is the CEO of Meta Platforms and owns roughly 13% of the company. However, he holds roughly 53% of the voting rights. The platform boasts about 4 billion monthly active users.
Zuckerberg is also one of the few entrepreneurs who have seen their fortunes crumble and lose billions of dollars. A sharp decline in Meta’s stock price led to a stumble in Zuckerberg’s net worth, dragging him down to the 13th position in 2022 from 3rd in just a year. However, Zuckerberg’s quick response and damage control of the situation resulted in a surge in Meta’s stock price and his personal net worth in 2023. By February 2024, Zuckerberg had regained his position among the top ten billionaires with his net worth soaring to $170 billion.
Some Remarkable Facts About Zuckerberg
- Rejected an offer from Yahoo! to acquire Facebook for $1 billion in an all-cash deal
- His net worth zoomed to $15 billion when Facebook went public in May 2012
- In 2015, Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan vowed to donate 99% of their Meta holdings to charity over their lifetimes
- Surpassed $100 billion in net worth in August 2020
- By the end of 2021, Zuckerberg’s net worth peaked at $137 billion, ranking him 3rd on the global billionaires list
- Possesses acres of real estate properties and land across the U.S. worth millions of dollars
Ending Thoughts
With Donald Trump regaining the presidency in 2025, Zuckerberg is currently engaged in a high-stakes game, trying to get into the good books of the new administration. Zuckerberg did not have a good time during Trump’s earlier presidency and was often sparring over regulations. This time around, however, Meta donated $1 million toward Trump’s inaugural fund and has also roped in UFC president and CEO Dana White to its board. White is known to be a long-time ally of Trump. Only time will tell how Zuckerberg’s fortunes twist and twirl as Meta engages in the AI and virtual reality race with other big tech firms.
