In a brutal week for tech stocks, Zuckerberg saw his largest one-day swing in personal valuation yet recorded.

The heady fortune's of America's tech billionaires make for avid reading for most news followers.

One day, you have Amazon's  (AMZN) - Get Amazon.com, Inc. Report Jeff Bezos at the top of the ranking of the world's wealthiest people. The next, he is bumped down a few pegs by Tesla's  (TSLA) - Get Tesla Inc Report Elon Musk.

The game of musical chairs that involves these vaunted few is followed with breathless anticipation by both their fans, who hope to have similar fortunes someday, and their haters, who find the idea of billionaires in this day and age to be completely ludicrous.

Either way, it makes for some compelling reading.

This week was a particularly brutal game of fortunes for the world's richest people, after tech took a brutal beating in the market following dismal earnings reports in the first quarter.

That sent Amazon, Google  (GOOGL) - Get Alphabet Inc. Class A Report and Apple  (AAPL) - Get Apple Inc. Report stocks skidding, while Facebook  (MVRS) - Get Meta Report enjoyed a reprieve from its previously sharp nosedive in share value.

Even Elon Musk felt the pinch, although that was mostly due to Tesla shareholders registering their opposition to Musk's Twitter (TWTR) - Get Twitter, Inc. Report buyout — a venture which he may or may not be serious about.

One big winner in all of this? Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

A Really Big Payday

Zuckerberg is known for having incredibly high highs (like connecting the entire world to people they knew in primary school) and incredibly low lows (like when Cambridge Analytica said it had scraped the data of millions of unsuspecting Facebook users).