Meet The 10 Billionaires Of The Facebook IPO (2024)

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With a 4% share in one of the fastest-growing and most profitable companies on the internet, he's a sizeable part of something very special. How much did Sean Parker make from Facebook? His net worth now sits at $2.8 billion. Recommended Sean Parker Read: The incredible life and career of Facebook's first President!

With a 4% share in one of the fastest-growing and most profitable companies on the internet, he's a sizeable part of something very special. How much did Sean Parker make from Facebook? His net worth now sits at $2.8 billion. Recommended Sean Parker Read: The incredible life and career of Facebook's first President!

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, is the richest person and the richest man in the world with a net worth of $218 billion. After Musk is Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon. Other billionaires with some of the largest net worths include LVMH's Arnault, Microsoft's Bill Gates, and Oracle's Larry Ellison.

He owns about 2% of the company, according to its 2022 proxy statement. The world's largest social network has more than 3.9 billion active users each month including about 3 billion on Facebook, according to a February 2024 company presentation.

He is the founder and chairman of the Parker Foundation, which focuses on life sciences, global public health, and civic engagement. On the Forbes 2022 list of the world's billionaires, he was ranked No. 1,096 with a net worth of US$2.8 billion.

The largest individual shareholder of Facebook (Meta) is Mark Zuckerberg and the largest institutional shareholder is Vanguard.

Clemente Del Vecchio

Clemente was at one time the world's youngest billionaire (at the age of 18), but he has since aged out of that title, which is now held by Livia Voigt.

Swift's inclusion comes after Forbes declared the singer a billionaire in October 2023 and reported her net worth at $1.1 billion. In a rare feat, Swift is the first musician to reach the milestone solely from songwriting and performing.

Zuckerberg took the company public in May 2012 with majority shares. In 2008, at age 23, he became the world's youngest self-made billionaire. He has since used his funds to organize multiple donations, including the establishment of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

1. Françoise Bettencourt Meyers. With an eye-watering net worth of $99 billion, Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, a French businesswoman and philanthropist, is the richest woman in the world.

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However, many believe Mansa Musa's wealth outdoes that of all modern billionaires. Mansa Musa ruled over the Mali empire in the 14th Century, and his incredible access to gold made him arguably the richest human to have ever lived. So, why is it that he has largely disappeared from the western historical imagination?

In broader terms, the finance and investment profession has the most millionaires. It also has the most billionaires, with 371. Here's a list of the seven best careers if you want to be a millionaire.

Despite the blunder, Zuckerberg's friend Eduardo Saverin continued to support him. The idea of a universal face book lingered. In 2003, Harvard University began using face books to gather basic information from students, from their photos to their names, genders, and places of birth.

Facebook is the most popular social media platform in the world as measured by monthly active users. The largest individual shareholder of Meta is its founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. The largest institutional shareholder of the company is Vanguard Group.

Mark Zuckerberg is the founder, chairman and CEO of Meta, which he originally founded as Facebook in 2004.

In the end, the lawyer was right to worry. Saverin eventually sued Facebook over breach of fiduciary duty. Facebook and Saverin settled, and he walked away with 4% or 5% of the company. That stake is now worth close to $5 billion.

26.3 billion USD (2024)

Eduardo Saverin / Net worth

There are 3000 current Facebook employees. There were 600 Facebook millionaires at IPO according to a firm that tracks ultra-high net worth individuals. There is no factual basis or citation for the "thousands of millionaires" claim in the NYT.

Facebook made a lot of people millionaires but it made 10 people billionaires. The stock opened today at $38 per share. Using that price, Bloomberg calculated the net worth of Facebook's richest employees and investors. They're now worth ten or eleven figures.