Mark Zuckerberg Made $800 Million While On Paternity Leave

Mark Zuckerberg has become the world's Sixth
richest person and fourth wealthiest in the
United States - while he was on two-month
paternity leave.

The Facebook CEO's wealth soared to $47.9
billion this week after the social media
website's stock climbed 12 per cent following a
strong quarterly earnings report, according to
Forbes.
The 31-year-old Harvard graduate is now the
youngest person on the world's top ten richest
list where he sits above Google founder Larry
Page, the Koch brothers and most recently,
Oracle's Larry Ellison.
Zuckerberg only entered the top ten list at the
end of last year when he was catapulted from
14th in 2014 into seventh on the strength of his
impressive fortune. He is also now ranked as
the fourth richest in the United States.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is still the richest
person in the world. His fortune currently stands
at $76.2 billion.
Behind Gates is Zara founder Amancio Ortega
who has a real time net worth of around $68.4
billion.
Last year, Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla
Chan, announced a $120 million donation to
improve education in the San Francisco Bay
area, particularly for low-income students. It
came five years after donating $100 million to
remake education in Newark.
The Facebook founder has been on paternity
leave since the birth of his daughter, Maxima,
with wife Priscilla Chan, in November when his
net worth was estimated at $47.1 billion.
He only returned to work last Monday.