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PROFILE
Mark Zuckerberg
Cofounder, Meta Platforms
$216.5B
$3B (1.42%)
Real Time Net Worth
as of 11/5/26
Reflects change since 5 pm ET of prior trading day.
Martin Schoeller for Forbes
From the Editor
Last Updated Oct 14, 2026, 6:30am EDT
- A 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook in 2004 for students to match names with photos of classmates.
- Zuckerberg took Facebook public in 2012; he now owns about 13% of the company's stock.
- Facebook changed its name to Meta in 2021 to shift the company's focus to the metaverse. It has since changed focus again, to AI.
- In 2015, Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, pledged to give away 99% of their Meta stake over their lifetimes.
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Forbes Lists
list appearances
61
Personal Stats
- Age
- 42
- Source of Wealth
- Facebook, Self Made
- Residence
- Palo Alto, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Drop Out, Harvard University
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In Their Own Words
We may not have the power to create the world we want immediately, but we can all start working on the long term today.
Mark Zuckerberg
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