At the US House of Representatives 10 Hours, Zuckerberg 'Kantongi' Rp 41 Trillion
Mark Zuckerberg has parliamentary assembly of United States Serkat (US) about the abuse of tens of millions of data users Facebook. The event that had predicted to make the founder and CEO of Facebook was overwhelmed it actually made him more rich.
For two days in a row with a total of 10 hours, Zuck was bombarded with questions by members of the US House of Representatives. Investors who watched the trial apparently considered Zuck out as the winner, where the stock price of Facebook that had plummeted slowly rose to 3%.
It makes Priscilla Chan's husband who has 401.4 million Facebook shares richer by about USD 3 billion or in the range of Rp 41 trillion in recent days. Total wealth is currently according to Forbes at USD 65.8 billion.
Indeed his position as the richest man has not recovered, where before the case of theft of Facebook data rolling Zuck was in fifth place. But right now, he is already in seventh position and probably going to crawl up.
Zuck who dressed in a full suit when facing the US parliament did appear confident, not panicked and can answer questions quite well. Some members of the US House of Representatives were criticized for not understanding Facebook, especially those who are elderly.
One of the senators is Doris Matsui as California representative. This 73-year-old woman does not seem to understand the business model run by Facebook and asks questions that are considered too simple.
"Although it does not sell data (users), does not Facebook make money from ads based on that data?" Matsui asked Zuckerberg.
"Yes, we run ads.This is our business model, that is running ads," said the CEO of Facebook short.
Funnily enough, the same thing was also asked by Ordin Hatch, a representative of Utah. "How can Facebook survive with a business model that does not require users to pay for services from Facebook?" said the 84-year-old man.
Zuckerberg also just replied briefly, while ending his perceans with a smile. "Sir, we run ads," he said.
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