Facebook Mark Zuckerberg Leads Apple Steve Jobs in the Forbes, Where is Bill Gates

The annual Forbes 400, which seeks to measure and ranking of richest Americans in their net worth, came today with a surprise: Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, the youngest billionaire in the world was in the past, is now worth more than Apple’s Steve Jobs.

Zuckerberg, 26, who owns and controls approximately one-fourth of Facebook, is valued at $6.9 billion this year — a whopping rise of $4.9 billion from last year — putting him in the No. 35 position on the list. Jobs, on the other hand, is $1 billion richer than last year, but seven places behind Zuckerberg (No. 42) at $6.1 billion.

While net-worths are only approximate estimations — valuations and stocks tend to vary, and most wealth is, as they say, strictly “on paper” — Zuckerberg’s rise can be attributed to the growing interest from private equity investments in Facebook which have valued the company at around $23 billion, triple its 2009 valuation of $7 billion.

On the other hand, while Jobs founded and is undoubtedly the biggest influence at Apple today, it might come as a surprise to some that the 55 year-old CEO’s financial interest in Apple is not the biggest contributor to his wealth.

In fact, the majority of Jobs’ wealth ($4.4 billion) comes from Disney, where he became the company’s largest shareholder after its acquisition of Pixar back in 2006. The remaining $1.3 billion is the stake in Apple he attained from its 1996 acquisition of NeXT and subsequent stock option grants from his tenure at the company.

The dichotomy between the two CEOs have an interesting fact: when jobs were outside of his business in 1985 published Zuckerberg has to keep a remarkable job in power, or control of an unprecedented number of 25 percent of the company and the majority of board seats did. The young CEO probably learned a thing or two from the misfortune employment “, and it seems to have borne fruit. He had started a few tips from Sean Parker, the founder of Napster and Plaxo, which had been in his company. Parker, the first president of Facebook, until it was overthrown, was determined to preserve the funding in order to take control of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg will increase, and this strategy has elapsed and large. The story was David Kirkpatrick Chronicle Book Effect Facebook.

Interestingly, Zuckerberg was a philanthropist, announced today the Wall Street Journal that Zuckerberg is $ 100,000,000 in Newark, NJ Don schools. It will do so by creating a foundation and it makes camp Facebook.