Which one is richer, Tom ( MS ) or Mark ( FB )

Here it goes :

Now guys, I'm pretty sure some of you have been thinking about this matter. Which one is richer , Tom Anderson  *the founder of Myspace or Marc Zuckerberg *the founder of Facebook.

So I dig around a litte bit in a land of knowledge called Google and try to find anything related to this.


1) WHO and What ?

Mark Zuckerberg is the founder and CEO of Facebook, which he started in his college dorm room in 2004 with roomates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

Zuckerberg is responsible for setting the overall direction and product strategy for Facebook. He leads the design of Facebook’s service and development of its core technology and infrastructure.

Earlier in life, Zuckerberg developed a music recommendation system called Synapse and a peer-to-peer client called Wirehog. However, he abandoned both to pursue new projects.

Zuckerberg attended Harvard University and studied computer science before founding Facebook.

While at Harvard, Zuckerberg created Facemash, a website that compared students’ dorm photos side-by-side in a fashion similar to HOT or NOT. Harvard administration was not amused, and Zuckerberg faced subsequent disciplinary action. Less than three months later, he launched Facebook.

Tom Anderson is the President and Co-Founder of MySpace. All newly created MySpace accounts include Tom as a default “friend” and therefore he’s become known as the face of the company. Anderson attended the University of California, Berkeley, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Rhetoric and English. He then attended the University of California, Los Angeles and received a master’s degree in film - critical studies. Many questions have come up about when Tom was actually born.

In 2003, Tom and a few computer programmers set up the first pages of MySpace and the site grew from there

2) Estimated net worth :

Tom Anderson, one of three founders of MySpace has a net worth of $845 million dollars (U.S). Tom made a lot of money from MySpace through advertising revenue, but the bulk of his wealth was generated from the sale of MySpace for $580 million (U.S.) to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. He is employed at MySpace now as a "Strategic Advisor", which provides for him a substantial salary, which can only add to his net worth.



To my surprise, Tom couldn't beat Mark ! That's quite impressive.

How about others?

Plurk's ? Friendster's ? Twitter's ?

Oh REI99 from bloggerunited !!! Tell me, what is your net worth ? I'm really keen to know about it :D

Seriously

Oh, just to add some spice,

What do you think fellas?

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