Forbes Rich List 2010 – Mark Zuckerberg Moves Up

The complete Forbes 400 Rich list in the US has been released and as usual is topped by Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft (see link to list of 400 richest people in the US below). His shares in the company are valued at $54bn – up by $4bn from last year.

Facebook founder, 26-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, is one of only eight members of the US list under 40. The magazine has named him the 35th richest – as in most valuable – person in the US, passing Steve Jobs (42nd) and Rupert Murdoch (38th) on the way.

Two of the others are co-founders of Facebook – one of them, Dustin Moskovitz, is the youngest on the list, born just eight days after Zuckerberg, and worth $1.4bn. Two others of the under-40 set are the co-founders of Google, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, both worth $15bn and aged 37, making them equal 11th on the list.

The complete list of 400 richest people in the US is found here.