Sky-High Markets Are New Risk to Billionaires Beyond Death and Divorce

  • Zuckerberg’s $31 billion one-day wealth drop is third-biggest
  • Meta co-founders and Spotify’s Daniel Ek also lost fortunes

 

Mark Zuckerberg’s wealth plummeted as much as $31 billion on Thursday.

Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
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For the world’s richest people, there used to be three ways to quickly see a fortune disappear: Death, default or divorce.

The past few months have added another risk: Sky-high valuations of giant technology companies falling from the stratosphere.