It has not been a great day for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Facebook stock has taken a hard hit today after it was revealed that an analytical company with ties to the Donald Trump campaign allegedly imporperly obtained data on millions of users. How bad was the stock hit for Mr. Zuckerberg? Oh, nothing major really, other than he lost $4 billion today, according to ESPN’s Darren Rovell.
In case you thought you were having a bad morning.
Mark Zuckerberg is already down $4 BILLION today, thanks to plummeting Facebook stock. pic.twitter.com/t0v78Wr557
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) March 19, 2018
Imagine losing $4 billion in a single day. In single morning for that matter! I get a bit wild if I lose $5. Granted, I’m not a billionaire yet, but I can’t imagine waking up with $4 billion less than I had the day before. It’s the definition of mind-boggling.
What does a man do when he loses billions in a single day? Does he grab a bottle of whiskey and drink away the pain? Is there a woman to comfort him? Or does he have so much money that he hardly notices? After all, Zuckerberg’s net worth is believed to be north of $70 billion.
I know what I’d do if I lost billions in a day. I’d grab as much booze as I could find, fly my private jet to wherever my yacht was, party my face off and hope my stocks had bounced back before I sober up. I’m just not sure there’s any other way to handle the situation.
Luckily, Zuckerberg has a long ways to go before he’s Russ Hanneman.