Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook empire just keeps growing. Only five people in the entire world are now richer than Mark Zuckerberg. The Facebook founder and CEO (also America’s favorite dad) saw his net worth surge overnight Wednesday to around $47 billion on the strength of the social network’s latest quarterly results, pushing Zuckerberg up to number six on the list of the world’s richest people, according to data from Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index.
Facebook on Wednesday released a stellar earnings report for the fourth quarter of 2015, which sent stocks soaring more than 13% in early-morning trading Thursday. Zuckerberg’s wealth is primarily in Facebook stock, so the rally boosted his net worth by $1.2 billion for the year.
The 31-year-old overtook Charles and David Koch, the billionaire brothers known for pouring money into Republican coffers.Charles and David Koch, have seen their net worth decline due to falling oil prices.
