Forbes estimates Eduardo Saverin’s net worth at $39.3 billion (real-time estimate, 18 October 2026), ranking him 54th in the world. Forbes says most of it comes from his small but valuable stake in Meta Platforms, the company he co-founded as Facebook with his Harvard classmate Mark Zuckerberg in 2004. Because the figure is an outside estimate tied to Meta’s share price, it moves every trading day.
Forbes says he still derives most of his wealth from his stake in Meta, even though he has long been a venture capitalist.
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A second engine
In 2015 he launched B Capital with Raj Ganguly; the firm reports more than $12 billion in assets under management.
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A long way from the IPO
Facebook priced its May 2012 IPO at $38.00 a share. Forbes notes that Saverin, a Brazilian native and Singapore resident, renounced his US citizenship ahead of that IPO.
What drives it in 2025-26
Meta's AI spending
Meta’s capital expenditures, including principal payments on finance leases, were $72.22 billion in 2025, and its mid-2026 10-Q says it expects to keep increasing investment in AI, including generative AI and superintelligence. How investors judge that spending moves Meta’s share price, and with it Saverin’s estimate.
Meta's profits
Meta reported net income of $60.46 billion for 2025 in its 10-K. Profit funds both the AI build-out and the buybacks that support the stock.
B Capital and AI
B Capital, which Forbes says raised $500 million in July 2026 for early-stage startups, named a General Partner and Chief AI Officer in July 2026, according to its own news page.
Why the number keeps changing
Forbes publishes a real-time estimate that reflects the change since the prior trading day’s close. Any figure for Saverin is only meaningful with its date and its source.
Eduardo Saverin: key facts
Net worth
Detail$39.3 billion, real-time, 18 Oct 2026 (estimate)
Always quote a billionaire's net worth with its date and source; real-time estimates change daily.
Treat a founder's wealth as a bet on one stock: Saverin's estimate rises and falls with Meta.
Read Meta's capital spending plans to understand what is moving its share price in the AI era.
Note that a small early stake in a company that compounds can outweigh decades of later work.
Look at B Capital's own disclosures for its size and focus rather than relying on summaries.
The Business Engineer lens
Saverin’s fortune is now a derivative of Meta’s AI bet: the market prices how well the company turns tens of billions of dollars of capital spending into returns. The Business Engineer view is that founder wealth in big tech has become a proxy for the AI capex cycle.
The complete explainer, cleaned up and reformatted for mobile.
In short
Forbes estimates Eduardo Saverin’s net worth at $39.7 billion (real-time, 10 October 2026), ranking him 54th in the world. Most of it is Meta stock, from the stake he kept after a 2009 settlement with Facebook, the company he co-founded in 2004. It is an estimate: his shareholding has never appeared in an SEC filing, so the figure moves with Meta’s share price.
Sources: Forbes (10 Oct 2026); Facebook, Inc. IPO prospectus (Form 424B4, May 2012, SEC EDGAR); CNBC (2011, 2012). Analysis by The Business Engineer.
Correction (10 Oct 2026): this page previously showed two different figures (‘$30B+’ and ‘$25.28 billion as of July 2024’) and a share-by-share calculation of Saverin’s stake. Those share counts are not supported by any SEC filing, so we withdrew that calculation. We now cite one dated, named estimate (Forbes), show Forbes’s own estimates over time, and tag every input as filing, reported or estimate.
How we source: figures on this page come from the company’s own filings (SEC 10-K, 10-Q, prospectus and earnings releases, or its annual report), with the period stated next to each number; outside estimates appear only labelled, with their source and date. Last refreshed October 2026. Our methodology.
An outside estimate, not a disclosed figure: it moves every trading day with Meta’s share price. Forbes says most of it comes from his “small but valuable stake in Meta”.
#54
in the world (Forbes real-time estimate, 10 Oct 2026)
Estimate
5.0×
growth since the Mar 2017 list ($7.9B → $39.7B)
Estimate
> $3B
his stake’s reported value at the May 2012 IPO (NYT via CNBC), vs $39.7B estimated today
Reported
Eduardo Saverin’s estimated net worth and what drives it. Sources: Forbes (real-time estimate, 10 Oct 2026, and annual World’s Billionaires lists 2017–2026); Facebook IPO prospectus (Form 424B4, May 2012); CNBC (2011, 2012).
An estimate is only as good as its date: Forbes updates its real-time figure as Meta’s share price moves.
How much is Eduardo Saverin worth?
The most widely cited figure is Forbes’s real-time estimate: $39.7 billion on 10 October 2026, #54 in the world. Forbes attributes most of it to his stake in Meta Platforms, the parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
It is an outside estimate, not a number from Saverin or from Meta. Other outlets publish different figures, and each outlet’s figure changes daily. Use one source consistently, and always note its date.
How the fortune was built
Saverin’s fortune comes from one early bet and one legal fight: he helped start and fund Facebook in 2004, saw his stake diluted, and kept a smaller but still very large stake through a 2009 settlement. Everything since then has compounded with Facebook’s, and later Meta’s, share price.
Eduardo Saverin: the fortune and its milestones Estimate
Before the chart: 2004 Co-founds Facebook at Harvard · 2005 Stake diluted, then a lawsuit · 2009 Moves to Singapore · 2009 Settlement, terms undisclosed
12024 · Estimates rise with Meta Estimate
Forbes annual list estimates and the real-time estimate (gold); Forbes. Milestones as tagged in the timeline below.
Serves as its first CFO and funds the early company. Facebook is incorporated in July 2004 (Facebook 424B4). His early stake is reported at 34% (CNBC, 2012).
2005–06Reported
Stake diluted, then a lawsuit
His holding is diluted as new investors come in and he is pushed out; he sues Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg (CNBC, 2012). Accounts differ on exact dates.
2009Reported
Settlement, terms undisclosed
The settlement sets his current stake and confirms his co-founder title; the terms were never disclosed (CNBC, 2012).
2009Reported
Moves to Singapore
Relocates shortly after the settlement and starts investing in Asian start-ups (CNBC, 2011).
2011Reported
Gives up US citizenship
Files in January 2011; it became official in September 2011 and was published in April 2012 (NYT via CNBC, 2012).
May 2012SEC filing
Facebook IPO at $38 a share
His stake, reported at 4–5%, was expected to be worth more than $3 billion at the IPO (NYT via CNBC). He is not listed in the prospectus ownership table (424B4).
2015Reported
Co-founds B Capital
Venture firm launched with Raj Ganguly; Forbes puts its assets under management above $12 billion, and it raised $500 million for early-stage start-ups in July 2026 (Forbes).
2024–26Estimate
Estimates rise with Meta
Forbes’s list estimate goes from $10.2B (April 2023) to $35.9B (March 2026); $39.7B real-time on 10 Oct 2026 (Forbes).
What drives the number
Every net-worth estimate for Saverin is the same simple model: his Meta shares times Meta’s share price, plus his other holdings. Only one of the three inputs, the share price, is public. That is why outlets disagree, and why the number moves every day.
Meta shares he ownsReported×Meta's share priceMarket data+B Capital and other holdingsEstimate=$39.7BNet-worth estimate, 10 Oct 2026
Meta shares he owns: The share count has only ever been reported by the press (a 4–5% stake around the 2012 IPO, per CNBC); it is not in any SEC filing.
Meta's share price: Public market data that changes every trading day, which is why the estimate moves daily.
B Capital and other holdings: Private venture stakes; valued by the estimator, not disclosed.
Using one consistent source, Forbes’s annual World’s Billionaires lists, his estimated wealth moved between $7.9 billion and $14.6 billion from 2017 to 2023, then rose to $35.9 billion by March 2026. Because most of it is Meta stock, the line largely tracks Meta’s share price rather than anything Saverin did in a given year.
Estimated net worth over time Estimate
Mar 2017
$7.9B
Mar 2018
$10.1B
Mar 2019
$9.7B
Apr 2020
$8.4B
Apr 2021
$14.6B
Apr 2022
$10.6B
Apr 2023
$10.2B
Apr 2024
$28.0B
Apr 2025
$34.5B
Mar 2026
$35.9B
10 Oct 2026
$39.7B
Annual World’s Billionaires list estimates (Forbes); gold bar = real-time estimate on 10 Oct 2026. All figures are estimates by the same outlet, so they are comparable with each other, not with other outlets’ numbers.
Both lines indexed to 100 at the Mar 2017 list. Net worth: Forbes list estimates and real-time estimate. Share price: month-end close in each list’s month, split-adjusted (Yahoo Finance); latest point: close on 9 Oct 2026. Index levels, not dollars; the gap shows what else moved the estimate (share sales, gifts, other assets).
Forbes real-time estimates on 10 Oct 2026, same outlet and same day, so the bars are comparable. Gold = this page.
What the filings do and don’t say
Disclosed
✓Facebook was incorporated in July 2004 and listed at $38.00 a share in May 2012 (424B4).
✓The prospectus lists directors, executive officers, 5% holders and selling shareholders: Saverin is not among them.
Not disclosed
–How many Meta shares Saverin owns, then or now.
–Whether or when he sold any shares.
–The value of B Capital and his other private holdings.
Where he lives and what he does now
Saverin has lived in Singapore since 2009 and is a Brazilian citizen (Forbes). He gave up US citizenship before Facebook’s 2012 IPO, a move that drew criticism at the time; he said he was misunderstood (NYT via CNBC, 2012).
He now invests through B Capital, the venture firm he co-founded in 2015 with Raj Ganguly. Forbes puts its assets under management above $12 billion; in July 2026 it raised $500 million for early-stage start-ups (Forbes).
The Business Engineer view
A net worth is a model, not a measurement
For founders whose stakes are filed (directors, officers, 5% holders), the share count is public and only the price moves. For Saverin, two of the three inputs are uncertain: the share count is press-reported and his private holdings are valued by the estimator.
So read any figure with three questions: who estimated it, on what date, and at what Meta share price. A 10% move in Meta’s stock moves his estimated wealth by roughly the same proportion, which is why rankings can reshuffle in a single trading day.
Gennaro Cuofano is a CRO and tech executive who has worked in AI since late 2015, starting with bringing NLP, natural-language generation, voice and chatbot products to the marketing industry. His background is in law and finance: he holds a Master's degree in Law and an International MBA with an emphasis on corporate finance (LUISS Business School and the University of San Diego, 2012), and worked as a financial analyst at a real-estate investment firm in San Diego and as an assistant controller. His work focuses on business model strategy, business engineering and, more broadly, structural analysis: how companies make money, read from their own filings. He created FourWeekMBA and leads research there and at The Business Engineer, his newsletter on AI and business strategy, with over 95,000 subscribers and more than 1,000 published analyses. His writing has also appeared on Entrepreneur (for example, How to Digitize a Family Business in Europe) and HackerNoon. Find him on LinkedIn and Substack. See how we source.
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