扎克伯格即将超越巴菲特，成为全球第三富豪

Facebook的联合创始人马克·扎克伯格有望超越沃伦·巴菲特，登上全球财富榜第三位。

扎克伯格相较于伯克希尔-哈撒韦（Berkshire Hathaway Inc.）的董事长要年轻逾半世纪。Facebook此前深陷泄密事件，股票下跌18%，摆脱危机后，扎克伯格身价今年上涨85亿美元，达到813亿美元。彭博亿万富豪指数（Bloomberg Billionaires Index）显示，Facebook股价从3月27日152.22美元的收盘低位一跃上升至上周三上午9：45纽约报出的201.45美元的历史新高，使他与巴菲特之间的差距缩短至7.25亿美元。

Facebook股价回升也惠及企业内其他成员：首席运营官谢丽尔·桑德伯格目前身价18亿美元，首席技术官迈克尔·施洛普夫所持的0.05%的股份价值约为2.24亿美元。

而34岁的扎克伯格还落后于世界首富杰夫·贝佐斯——亚马逊（Amazon.com Inc.）创始人、截至上周二拥有1436亿美元财富；以及比尔·盖茨——微软（MicrosoftCorp）联合创始人，拥有927亿美元财富。彭博此项指数列出全球个人财富500强，并于每个纽约交易日收盘后更新。

87岁的巴菲特是曾经的世界首富，2006年起热忱从事慈善事业，致使排名有所下滑。他已捐出伯克希尔-哈撒韦2.9亿股B类股票，其中多数捐献给了盖茨的基金会。根据彭博社汇编的数据，上述股票如今价值可达500亿美元以上。扎克伯格曾许诺在有生之年捐献出他在Facebook个人所持股份的99%。（财富中文网）

译者：沈昕宇 

Facebook Inc. co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is poised to leapfrog Warren Buffett to become the world’s third-richest person.

Zuckerberg, more than a half-century younger than the Berkshire HathawayInc. chairman, is now worth $81.3 billion, gaining $8.5 billion this year as Facebook shook off a data-privacy crisis that caused its stock to tumble 18 percent. Its rebound from a closing low of $152.22 on March 27 to a record $201.45 at 9:45 a.m. last Wednesday in New York narrowed the gap with Buffett to $725 million, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

The recovery in Facebook shares has rewarded other insiders as well, including Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, who’s now worth $1.8 billion, and Chief Technology Officer Michael Schroepfer, whose 0.05 percent holding is valued at $224 million.

Zuckerberg, 34, also trails Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person with a $143.6 billion fortune through last Tuesday, and MicrosoftCorp. co-founder Bill Gates, with $92.7 billion. The Bloomberg index ranks the world’s 500 richest people and is updated after the close of each trading day in New York.

Buffett, 87, once the world’s wealthiest person, is sliding in the ranking thanks to his charitable giving, which he kicked off in earnest in 2006. He’s donated about 290 million Berkshire Hathaway Class B shares to charities, most of it to Gates’s foundation. Those shares are now worth more than $50 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Zuckerberg has pledged to give away 99 percent of his Facebook stock in his lifetime.