Mark Zuckerberg has come a long way from coding in his college dorm room.
The CEO of Facebook, who owns nearly a 30 percent share in the world's biggest social network, is No. 16 on Bloomberg's list of billionaires, Fortune reported.
The placement puts 30-year-old Zuckerberg ahead of Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin as well as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Zuckerberg's net worth is valued at $33.3 billion, coming in just ahead of Google's Page and Brin.
Facebook's stock jumped about 6 percent this week after a highly favorable earnings report revealing 61 percent revenue growth in the second quarter. The company's profits have more than doubled compared with the same period year-over-year thanks to mobile advertisements.
Page and Brin came in at No. 17 and No. 18, respective, while Bezos was No. 20 on the list of billionaires.
Zuckerberg has been striving to "unbundle" the Facebook app this year into more specialized apps, one of which is Facebook Messenger. He has said that 200 million users open the Messenger app at least once a month but that Facebook won't use a "cheap and easy approach" to monetize it.
Messenger still has a ways to go before ads can be introduced, but Zuckerberg is in for the long haul.
"We're going to take the time to do this in the way that we think that's going to be right over multiple years," said Zuckerberg, as quoted by Bloomberg News.
"The amount of messaging and how we see that growing is crazy. There's so much groundwork that we need to do in order to make it so that people are communicating with businesses and public figures in these other apps that we're building."
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