Mark Zuckerberg's net worth soars, now richest person in California

Thanks to a sharp rise in Facebook’s stock price Mark Zuckerberg displaced Oracle founder Larry Ellison as the richest person in California Zuckerberg added more than $18 billion to his fortune in the past year, riding a 52 percent jump in the value of the social networking site’s shares The 32-year-old CEO now has nearly $51.6 billion to his name, landing him on Fobes’ second annual list of the richest person in every state Zuckerberg earned $7 billion in just the last three months. He is currently the world’s sixth-richest person