Based on the number of shares of Facebook stock he owned, company founder Mark Zuckerberg is now worth about $20.3 billion, according to calculations done by CNN.com. Zuckerberg owns 534 million shares of company stock, which opened at $42.05 on the first day of trading on Friday, rising to $45 at one point and then [...]
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