Mark Zuckerberg has rocketed up the ranks of the world's richest people — and could take the top spot for the first time.
The CEO of Meta Platforms — Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp's parent company — has grown his net worth by an unmatched $51 billion this year to reach $179 billion, per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Zuckerberg sits in fourth place at the time of writing, behind Tesla's Elon Musk (worth $248 billion), Amazon's Jeff Bezos (worth $202 billion), and LVMH's Bernard Arnault (worth $180 billion). The social media mogul started the year in sixth place but ranked third, above the luxury goods tycoon, just last week.