{"id":861532,"date":"2024-09-30T09:36:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T04:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=861532"},"modified":"2024-09-30T09:43:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T04:13:00","slug":"zuckerbergs-metaverse-gamble-pays-off-with-201-billion-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/09\/30\/zuckerbergs-metaverse-gamble-pays-off-with-201-billion-fortune\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuckerberg\u2019s metaverse gamble pays off with $201 billion fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s bet on the metaverse initially looked like a colossal mistake, wiping more than $100 billion from his net worth. But now it\u2019s paying off big-time.<\/p>\n<p>Buoyed by a record-high Meta Platforms Inc share price, Zuckerberg\u2019s net worth has climbed almost sixfold in less than two years to $201 billion, the first time he\u2019s exceeded the $200 billion mark, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He\u2019s moved to fourth place on the list of the world\u2019s 500 richest people behind Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Bernard Arnault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s bet on the metaverse initially looked like a colossal mistake, wiping more than $100 billion from his net worth. But now it\u2019s paying off big-time. Buoyed by a record-high Meta Platforms Inc share price, Zuckerberg\u2019s net worth has climbed almost sixfold in less than two years to $201 billion, the first time he\u2019s exceeded the $200 billion mark, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He\u2019s moved to fourth place on the list of the world\u2019s 500 richest people behind Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Bernard Arnault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,44,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-861532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-it-2-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861532","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}