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This week, Facebook's stock showed that it wasn't done growing. FB's share price is up another 5% as of today's closing, which tops Mark's net worth off at just over $50 billion.

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Meanwhile, the last week has not been so kind to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Between last Thursday and today alone, Amazon's share price has declined 16%. With that drop, Jeff Bezos' net worth has been trimmed by around $7 billion. And with these moves, Bezos has slipped under Mark in terms of current total net worth, $49 billion vs. $50 billion, respectively.

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So as of this writing, the only people on the planet who are richer than Mark Zuckerberg are Warren Buffett ($60 billion), Zara founder Amancio Ortega Gaona ($70 billion) and Bill Gates ($78 billion). And perhaps Vladimir Putin – but that's not exactly official.

Pretty impressive stuff!

Do you think there will be a day when Mark is the richest person in the world? If we assume Mark would need a net worth of roughly $80 billion to become the richest person in the world, Facebook's share price would need to increase another 64% from where it currently stands. At that point, Facebook would have an overall market cap of $533 billion. FYI, Google currently is the most valuable (non-government) company in the world, with a market cap of $530 billion. Apple used to be the most valuable company in the world, when its market cap topped $722 billion, back in February 2015.

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