{"id":1020547,"date":"2026-07-13T11:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020547"},"modified":"2026-07-13T11:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:59:07","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-becomes-worlds-fifth-richest-person-as-net-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/13\/mark-zuckerberg-becomes-worlds-fifth-richest-person-as-net-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg becomes world&#8217;s fifth-richest person as net worth\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now the world&#8217;s fifth-richest person after his net worth jumped by more than $13 billion on July 10, helped by a sharp rise in Meta&#8217;s share price. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Zuckerberg&#8217;s fortune now stands at about $237 billion, up around $4 billion since the beginning of the year. The gain moves him behind only Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Sergey Brin and Jeff Bezos in the global wealth rankings. The increase comes as Meta shares continue to climb on investor optimism around the company&#8217;s AI strategy and future growth.<\/p>\n<p>Meta shares rise on AI and data center plans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now the world&#8217;s fifth-richest person after his net worth jumped by more than $13 billion on July 10, helped by a sharp rise in Meta&#8217;s share price. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Zuckerberg&#8217;s fortune now stands at about $237 billion, up around $4 billion since the beginning of the year. The gain moves him behind only Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Sergey Brin and Jeff Bezos in the global wealth rankings. The increase comes as Meta shares continue to climb on investor optimism around the company&#8217;s AI strategy and future growth. Meta shares rise on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020548,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020547\/revisions\/1020548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}