Facebook Puts Many Billionaires On Forbes List

Facebook has directly and indirectly made more than half a dozen people rich enough to land on the 2011 Forbes ranking of the world's 1,210 billionaires.

Facebook has made at least half a dozen people rich enough to land on the 2011 Forbes “World’s Billionaires” list.

We emphasize the words “at least” to reflect the investors and platform developers who’ve also made the list, and to leave room for possible erroneous exlusions from the ranking.

The Forbes ranking lists Facebook at a value of $50 billion, based on the Goldman Sachs led investment, significantly less than the current $82.5 billion valuation implied by the latest stock sale in the private markets.

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