Marck Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook and the company’s main shareholder, lost US$ 29.8 billion (about R$ 155 billion) of his assets this Thursday (3). The businessman’s fortune fell to US$ 84.7 billion (R$ 450 billion), according to Forbes magazine’s ranking of billionaires. With that, Zuckerberg dropped out of Forbes’ list of the 10 richest billionaires in the world and is now in the 12th position.
Shares in Meta, owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, fell by more than 25% in the market opening, after the company’s results for the last quarter of 2021 were released. Meta Platforms had net income of $10.285 billion in the fourth quarter of 2021, down 8% from the same period a year earlier.
Facebook has lost about 500,000 daily active users in the past three months, the first such drop in the company’s history, launched in 2004. Zuckerberg attributed the result to heavy competition from apps like TikTok. “People have a lot of choices about how they want to spend their time and apps like TikTok are growing very quickly. And that’s why our focus on Reels is so important in the long term,” Zuckerberg said during the earnings announcement, according to g1.
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It is not the first time that Zuckerberg has lost large sums after poor results and problems at his company. After documents were leaked from a former employee, the businessman had a loss of almost US$ 6 billion, but recovered a good part of the amount in a few days.
The Brazilian Eduardo Saverin, who is co-founder of Meta, had a drop in wealth to US$ 13.3 billion, but he still remains the richest Brazilian in the world, according to Forbes.
The leader of the ranking is entrepreneur and Tesla founder Elon Musk, who holds $232.8 billion, followed by Bernard Arnault (LVMH) with $193.6 billion and Jeff Bezos (Amazon) with $165. 3 billion.
See the list of the 10 richest men in the world:
Elon Musk: $234.9 billion
Bernard Arnault: $193.6 billion
Jeff Bezos: $164.9 billion
Bill Gates: 132.4 billion dollars
Larry Page: 123.5 billion dollars
Sergey Brin: 117.4 billion dollars
Warren Buffett: 114 billion dollars
Larry Ellison: $111.6 billion
Steve Ballmer: $96.8 billion
Gautam Adani: $90.1 billion
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