Jeff Bezos

[Merlin5]

Just.. crazy. I knew he had surpassed Gates with around $94 billion just a few months ago, but $124.3 billion!

Even the google twins, last time I looked they were paupers with about $35 billion each, but look at them now with $50 billion.


"On July 27, 2017, he became the world's wealthiest person when he accumulated an estimated net worth of just over $90 billion according to Forbes Magazine. His net worth surpassed $100 billion for the first time on November 24, 2017, after Amazon's share price increased by more than 2.5%. As of March 5, 2018, he has a net worth of $124.3 billion, and is contended to be on track to become the wealthiest person in contemporary history."

 

[Merlin5]

Would he still be top if Gates hadn’t given so much of his money away?

'Bezos is not truly the wealthiest person ever, despite numerous reports to the contrary. As just one example, on an inflation-adjusted basis, Bill Gates has previously been worth far more. In April 1999, for instance, Gates’ net worth eclipsed $100 billion as Microsoft shares topped out at the apex of the dot-com bubble. That fortune would be worth roughly $150 billion in today’s dollars. Gates, who is now worth an estimated $92 billion, would also be far richer if he had not given about $36 billion of Microsoft stock to charity over time,'

https://www.forbes.com/sites/noahki...y-the-richest-person-in-history/#422cda3a1f06


Here's an interesting thing I just read, "Thanks to his tin ear, Bezos lost untold billions to Apple's Steve Jobs. Jobs was a music lover (and dated Joan Baez). Bezos, who let Jobs hire away his music editor Keith Moerer, has "a lack of interest in music of any kind." As a teen, Bezos memorized the call letters of local radio stations so he could fake being hip to the music scene. But he was so unhip he let Jobs seize the lead in creating the iPod. "We were freaking out over what the iPod had done to Amazon's music business," ex-Amazon exec John Doerr told Stone. So Bezos invented the Kindle to prevent Apple (or others) from stealing the digital-book future."

 

[Merlin5]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/new...-dollar150-billion/ar-AAAbz16?ocid=spartanntp

Jeff Bezos Becomes the Richest Man in Modern History, Topping $150 Billion
Jeff Bezos is the richest person in modern history. The Amazon.com Inc. founder’s net worth cracked $150 billion in New York on Monday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. That’s about $55 billion more than Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, the world’s second-richest person.

Bezos, 54, also has topped Gates in inflation-adjusted terms. The $100 billion mark that Gates hit briefly in 1999 at the height of the dot-com boom would be worth about $149 billion in today’s dollars. That makes the Amazon chief executive officer richer than anyone else on earth since at least 1982, when Forbes published its inaugural wealth ranking.