![]() ![]() Zuckerberg's prominence in the technology industry has prompted political and legal attention. A film about Zuckerberg's career, The Social Network, was released in 2010. As of February 2023, Zuckerberg's net worth was $68.6 billion according to the Forbes Real Time Billionaires making him the 16th richest person in the world. In the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans in 2022 he was ranked 11th with a wealth of $57.7 billion, down from his status as the third richest American in 2021 with a net worth of $134.5 billion. ![]() ![]() In December 2016, Zuckerberg was ranked tenth on Forbes list of The World's Most Powerful People. Since 2008, Time magazine has named Zuckerberg among the 100 most influential people in the world as a part of its Person of the Year award, which he was recognized with in 2010. He has used his funds to organize multiple philanthropic endeavors, including the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. In 2007, at age 23, he became the world's youngest self-made billionaire. Zuckerberg took the company public in May 2012 with majority shares. Originally launched to select college campuses, the site expanded rapidly and eventually beyond colleges, reaching one billion users by 2012. Zuckerberg attended Harvard University, where he launched Facebook in February 2004 with his roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. He is known for co-founding the social media website Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.), of which he is the chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder. And if you take on too many all at once, and I think that is probably something that we have done, then you can lose focus," Hipkins said.Mark Elliot Zuckerberg ( / ˈ z ʌ k ər b ɜːr ɡ/ born ( )May 14, 1984) is an American business magnate, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. "Governments only have so much bandwidth to take on a variety of different projects and a variety of different challenges. The government said scrapping and delaying a number of key policies would free up in the "low hundreds" of millions of dollars.īut as he wielded the axe, the prime minister admitted it was not just about saving money, but time and energy. So seeing that improvement was really good news," Richard Wagstaff said. "They really are on the breadline and they watch acutely every cent that comes in. A lot of businesses are struggling as well, it really does have an effect on them," he said.īut the CTU said it was a welcome announcement for New Zealand's most vulnerable. "I can understand a Labour government will say 'we know the effects here on workers, and workers are struggling to keep up,' but the reality is it's a bit of a vicious circle or merry-go-round. It was not raised in the meeting Hipkins had with Auckland businesses two weeks ago, but Bridges said they felt it was coming. The announcements from the prime minister were a "mixed bag", Bridges said, and he was less enthused about the minimum wage going up by $1.50, in line with inflation. "Across the array of policies that were controversial, this one was quite near the top," Auckland Business Chamber chief executive Simon Bridges said. "I think this is a day of the living dead, and some of these policies will come back to haunt New Zealand," National's finance spokesperson Nicola Willis said.īusinesses were also involved in the design, but had grown increasingly wary of its widening scope, and costs. Now no work on it will proceed at all this term. The scheme was still a long way off, with no legislation yet brought to Parliament. When it was announced, National went straight to calling it a "jobs tax" and it appears the mud has stuck, for now. But he also acknowledges that now's not the right time for it," Hipkins said at his post-Cabinet press conference on Wednesday. We acknowledge that there are some issues here that we will continue to work on. And we're not ending the work on the issues that have been raised completely. "He's invested a lot of time and energy into that, and I absolutely acknowledge that. ![]() When the policy was launched, Grant Robertson called it an historic day.īut Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said his money man agreed to take it off the table. The scheme was the finance minister's pet project. ![]()
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