Mark Zuckerberg Passes Steve Jobs, Rupert Murdoch On Forbes 400 List

Facebook may have been down yesterday, but its cofounder Mark Zuckerberg is up. The 26-year-old social-media whiz kid has been listed in the Forbes 400 as the 35th richest person in America, shooting past older media barons like Rupert Murdoch of Newscorp (which owns Facebook rival MySpace), who is ranked 38th, and Apple’s Steve Jobs, who is ranked 42nd. Software kingpin Bill Gates of Microsoft still reigns on top of the Forbes list of rich people.

The shifting list confirms the evolving new media landscape in which relative new comers like Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin (both tied for 11th) and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos (18th) have suddenly become more valuable than Condé Nast’s Si Newhouse (tied with Murdoch for 38th) — whose company publishes The New Yorker and Vogue, and whose name graces Syracuse University’s journalism school — and Viacom’s Sumner Redstone (124th).

Zuckerberg, whose worth is estimated to be $6.9 billion, is one of only eight people under the age of 40 to be listed on the latest Forbes 400 list. Dustin Moskovitz (290th), one of his Facebook cofounders, was born eight days after Zuckerberg, making him the youngest member on the rich list.

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