Mark Zuckerberg Is Once Again The World’s Third Richest Person. He Just Drop-Kicked Elon Musk To #4.

ByBrian Warneron April 5, 2024inArticles›Billionaire News

In the first three months of 2024, no billionaire on the planet has seen a larger drop in net worth than Elon Musk. Elon’s net worth has dropped roughly $49 billion from where it stood on December 31, 2023. On the other side of that coin, no billionaire on the planet has seen a larger gain in net worth than Mark Zuckerberg. Mark’s net worth has increased $59 billion from where it stood at the end of 2023.

Mark started the year with a net worth of $131 billion . Elon started the year with a net worth of $229 billion . Mark was the sixth richest person in the world when he rang in the new year. Elon was #1.

As I type this article, Zuckerberg is worth $187 billion . Elon is worth $180 billion .

Today, Musk and Zuck’s diverging net worths allowed Mark Zuckerberg to become the world’s third richest person . In the process, he just drop-kicked Elon to #4. Elon’s rank on the list of the world’s richest people has not been this low since August 2020, when he first became the fourth richest person in the world . Amazingly, back in August 2020, all it took was $85 billion to be the world’s fourth richest person. Today, that net worth would rank you roughly #17.

Back in 2020, when Elon reached #4, the three people ahead of him were:

  • Mark Zuckerberg with $100 billion
  • Bill Gates with $120 billion
  • Jeff Bezos with #190 billion

One year and two months after Elon hit #4 with a net worth of $85 billion, his fortune briefly topped $340 billion. Not only did that make him BY FAR the richest person in the world, it also made him the richest human being of all time , topping John D. Rockefeller’s 80+ year inflation-adjusted previous record.

So maybe we should count Elon down, but certainly not out… just yet.

Mark Zuckerberg Is Once Again The World's Third Richest Person. He Just Drop - 1

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