MANY UNHAPPY RETURNS

Facebook has made plenty of people rich, but that doesn’t mean they like the Meta media giant. Here are a fistful of tech tycoons who owe their riches (at least partially) to their relationship with Zuck—but now, well, it’s complicated.

Brian Acton

NET WORTH:

$2.8 bil

RELATIONSHIP:

Sold WhatsApp to Facebook in 2014 for $22 billion

STATUS UPDATE (2018):

“It is time. #deletefacebook.”

Chris Hughes

NET WORTH:

Less than $1 bil

RELATIONSHIP:

Facebook cofounder

STATUS UPDATE (2019):

“Mark’s power is unprecedented and un-American. It is time to break up Facebook.”

Chamath Palihapitiya

NET WORTH:

Less than $1 bil

RELATIONSHIP:

Former Facebook vice president

STATUS UPDATE (2017):

“I feel tremendous guilt . . . . We have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric.”

Sean Parker

NET WORTH:

$2.8 bil

RELATIONSHIP:

Facebook’s first president

STATUS UPDATE (2017):

“God only knows what [Facebook is] doing to our children’s brains.”

Kevin Systrom

NET WORTH:

$1.6 bil

RELATIONSHIP:

Sold Instagram to Facebook in 2012 for $715 million

STATUS UPDATE (2018):

“No one ever leaves a job because everything is awesome.”