Most of Zuckerberg’s fortune comes from a 13% stake in Facebook. In 2020 alone, this billionaire received more than 25 billion USD from Facebook, however, Zuckerberg’s spending was only 1 USD (Photo: Getty).
Despite being one of the richest tech "tycoons" in the world, the young billionaire, who dropped out of Harvard, lives a simple life with his wife Priscilla Chan and two young daughters (Image: Getty).
Like many famous people in Silicon Valley, billionaire Zuckerberg is not dressed in flashy suits but still simple with jeans and a T-shirt. However, their prices are up to hundreds, even thousands of dollars (Image: Reuters).
Despite being rich and the boss of the world’s largest social network, Facebook owner still drives cheap cars like the Acura TSX and Honda Fit. Both are worth about $ 30,000 (Image: Getty).
However, this young billionaire still spent $ 1.3 million to process an Italian sports car, Pagani Huayra.
One thing Zuckerberg loves is real estate. In 2011, the owner of Facebook bought a 465 square meter house in Palo Alto for $ 7 million. A year later, Zuckerberg spent more than $ 30 million to merge four surrounding houses and redevelop the property. This is also the main residence of his family (Photo: BI).
Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg also owns a townhouse in San Francisco’s Mission district. This 511-square-meter house was bought by him in 2013 and then renovated at a cost of more than $ 1 million.
In 2014, the billionaire’s real estate portfolio reached the Pacific Ocean when he spent $ 100 million on two properties on Kauai Island. It is a 357-acre sugarcane plantation and 393-acre beachfront property.
Zuckerberg also bought two lakeside properties in Lake Tahoe for a total of $ 59 million. One of the houses, called Brushwook Estate, covers an area of 486 square meters stretching over 6 acres of land. The house includes a guest house and private pier.
Lake Tahoe Real Estate worth $ 59 million of billionaire Zuckerberg (Image: Youtube).
When buying real estate, Zuckerberg has a tendency to also buy the surrounding homes for private reasons.
Billionaire Zuckerberg doesn’t seem to travel for entertainment purposes. For business trips around the world, Facebook often pays fees. In 2020 alone, the group paid $ 23 million to ensure the security of him and his family.
But in the end, luxury and luxury are just a tiny concern for Zuckerberg. In fact, the Facebook boss’s biggest priority is charity rather than spending money (Image: Getty).
Like billionaire Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and more than 200 millionaires and other billionaires, billionaire Zuckerberg also participates in the Giving Pledge (a fund that calls on billionaires to donate most of their wealth to charity). He is planning to donate 99% of his shares in Facebook to charity.
In September 2017, Zuckerberg said he was planning to sell 35-75 million shares with a total value of $ 6-12 billion over 18 months to donate to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) - a fund from The charity was founded by the couple in 2015. Over the years, CZI has donated about $ 2 billion (Image: Getty).
For example, in 2020, CZI poured $ 4.2 million into a job creation program for Kauai residents and pledged $ 1 million to help the region fight the corona virus pandemic. During the past year, CZI also contributed millions of dollars to the Criminal justice reform program and affordable housing.
Billionaire Zuckerberg and Chan have poured billions of dollars into medical research around the world by the end of this century. To this end, CZI created a non-profit organization called Biohub to seek a cure for diseases including genetic research, infectious diseases and implantable devices (Image: AP).
Last August, Facebook launched an Instagram feature to compete with TikTok. This event pushed Facebook’s share price soaring, bringing the net worth of Facebook founders over the $ 100 billion mark for the first time. Currently, the billionaire’s assets are at $ 114 billion
