Most people don't know what it's like to make $6 billion in a day, but everyone's Facebook friend Mark Zuckerberg does.
A strong earnings report Wednesday catapulted the social network founder's net worth to $47 billion, making him the sixth richest person in the world. He has 1.59 billion Facebook users logging on each month to thank for that.
In addition to posting very strong fourth quarter results Wednesday, Facebook's ad sales were also up 57 percent over the previous year's numbers in the last three months of 2015.
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According to CNBC, Facebook shares rose by more than 15 percent in a day.
Not all the tech giants had such a good day, however. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos actually had a really bad day actually. Amazon missed the mark on its fourth-quarter earnings and stocks went tumbling.
And yet, even on a bad day, Bezos is still richer than Zuckerberg. As of Thursday, he was ranked the fourth richest person in the world with a net worth of $55.8 billion.
But who's counting, anyway?
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