Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has become the wealthiest person in history and the first to outrank Microsoft’s Bill Gates on the rich list, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Gates was the only one to have made 13-figure fortune.
Bezos’ net fortune amounted to $106 billion on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index as Amazon market capitalization advanced nearly 57 percent in 2017. The surge was mostly triggered by enormous holiday sales. The Seattle-based corporation managed to make up 89 percent of online spending among major retailers in five days after Thanksgiving in the US.
Apart from Amazon, Jeff Bezos also controls space exploration business Blue Origin, which intends to take tourists to space, and owns American daily newspaper the ‘Washington Post.’
Microsoft founder Bill Gates was overtaken on the rich list by Bezos by a margin of just $500 million as early as July 2017. In November, the head of the online retailer had outstripped the tech tycoon with $92 billion against $90 billion made by Gates.
Forbes, the other major tracker of the net wealth of the world’s richest people, puts Bezos’ fortune at $104.8 billion. Gates is now worth $91.9 billion, according to Forbes, and $93.3 billion according to Bloomberg.
Bill Gates would reportedly own a fortune of at least $150 billion if he hadn’t given away nearly 700 million Microsoft shares, worth $61.8 billion at today’s value, and around $2.9 billion in cash, along with some other assets since 1996.
Other billionaires to have made impressive gains include Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett, who has a total net worth of $87.3 billion, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose fortune has reached $77.3 billion. Amancio Ortega, the Spanish business tycoon and founder of Spanish fashion retailer Zara, completes the top five on the rich list.
https://www.rt.com/business/415465-bezos-amazon-richest-ever-billions/
I just love how the MSM always pretends that the wealth of the Rothschilds and Rockefellers don’t exist.
Talk to me when you get to trillionaire. A billionaire is nothing.
http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html
Great!!! This is terrific news…that means he’s got lots more money to throw at the presidential campaigns of Oprah and Chelsea!!! (end sarcasm).
This guy is a piece of sht, how has this asshole made America a better place?
Thanks to this rotten puscule, millions of jobs are now gone, Amazon has put fking hundreds of malls out of business, millions of jobs gone.
How much longer kids?
This kind of stuff is posted as “news” PRECISELY because our “overlords” do not want the wealth of the Rothschilds or Rockefellers to be known (not the fact that Rothschild literally owns Israel). And I guarantee it, Bezos STILL is not a happy person (growing up geek and all) and won’t be until he is AI “enhanced” (at which Bezos will have no chance of salvation, for he will no longer be fully human. Heck he might as well have been born or woman and fallen angel.)