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Mark Zuckerberg Is Worth ~$20 Billion — And He Drives This $30,000 Hatchback

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is worth about $20 billion.

If I were worth $20 billion, my family would own, at the very least, two cars — a four-door and a sports car.

Probably, the four door would be a fully-loaded $120,000 Tesla Model S. It's an electric car, but it drives as fast and corners as well as a gas-powered super car.

This is what a Tesla Model S looks like:

2013 tesla model s
Green Car Reports

My two door would probably be a conventional gas-powered super car. Maybe a Ferrari? In red?

I'd also consider a Bugatti Veyron, which is powered by two V8 engines and costs $1.3 million — a bargain at just 0.0065% of my hypothetical net worth.

2005 Bugatti Veyron 16.4
Bugatti

This is what a Bugatti Veyron looks like: 

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is not like me.

The approximate price difference between the $1.3 million Bugatti Veyron I would own if I had his money, and the car he actually owns is…$1.3 million.

According to a story by the Wall Street Journal's Evelyn Rusli, Zuckerberg drives a Volkswagen.

Specifically, he drives a black Volkswagon GTI with a manual transmission.

Maxed-out with all the options, including cheesy floor mats, a 2014 Volkswagon GTI with a manual transmission costs $30,415.

This is what Zuckerberg's car looks like:

volkswagon GTI
Volkswagon

Yep.

Mark Zuckerberg — worth $20 billion — drives a four-door hatchback to work.

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Nicholas Carlson was Business Insider's global editor-in-chief from 2017 to 2024, overseeing its emergence as a National Magazine Award, Emmy, SABEW, and Pulitzer Prize-winning global news organization with more than 500 journalists reaching 200 million readers and viewers each month.Before that, he was Business Insider's chief correspondent.Carlson is also the author of "Marissa Mayer and the Fight To Save Yahoo!"He was an Executive Producer of "Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV," which, during its debut week, was the most-watched television show on any streamer and the most-watched show in Max history.His investigative reporting rewrote the histories of Facebook, Twitter, and Groupon. He also wrote the award-winning features "The Truth About Marissa Mayer: An Unauthorized Biography" and "THE COST OF WINNING: Tim Armstrong, Patch, And The Struggle To Save AOL."Longform.org named "THE COST OF WINNING" the best long-form business story of 2013.Carlson's coverage of Yahoo won Digiday's award for Best Editorial Achievement of the year in 2014.In 2015 Carlson wrote a New York Times Magazine cover story, "What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs." It was a finalist for a Mirror Award for best in-depth/enterprise reporting.Carlson began his journalism career at InternetNews.com and then Gawker Media's Valleywag. He went to Davidson College. Disclosure: Nicholas is an investor in private and public companies and adheres to Insider Inc's Conflict of Interest policy, which you can read here.