Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg joined an elite list that includes Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, with his net worth surpassing $100 billion for the first time. Facebook shares witnessed a record high as the company released TikTok rival Instagram Reels.

Zuckerberg, 36, has added about $22 billion to his fortune this year so far, while Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos gathered $75 billion.

Zuckerberg had recently said that he plans to give away 99% of his shares in Facebook, which he founded in 2004, over his lifetime.

American tech behemoths – Apple, Amazon.com Inc., Alphabet, Facebook, and Microsoft Corp. – together have about 30% of US gross domestic product which is almost double the figure what the had in 2018, Bloomberg reported.

As far as India is concerned, Reliance Industries chief Mukesh Ambani added $22 billion to his wealth with investments from Facebook and Silvery Lake in RelianceJio. Ambani’s total worth has now reached $80.3 billion.