Jeff Bezos

[FnG]magnolia · 6 Mar 2018 at 09:12

Hades said:
Yes. He looks so much younger now. So if you're a shy balding middle aged man then get down the gym and shave your head.

Can you, uh, could you post the gym address you'll be at?

Asking for a friend.

Ayahuasca · 6 Mar 2018 at 09:32

Imagine that feeling when you're one of his children and you come to the age of understanding money, the only thing his boys have to worry about is when to get a hair transplant.

D.P. · 6 Mar 2018 at 09:38

Maccy said:
My previous company probably spent around this with Amazon per year, the whole platform was moved over to AWS (both production and non-prod) so it's quite easy for the costs to stack up. I think our non-prod environments were costing around £1k per month and production was much bigger so it makes sense.

We have similar costs, 1-2 K for Google, and at least 20-30K to Amazon AWS and support.

[FnG]magnolia · 6 Mar 2018 at 09:38

Ayahuasca said:
Imagine that feeling when you're one of his children and you come to the age of understanding money, the only thing his boys have to worry about is when to get a hair transplant.

Bill and Melinda Gates have been very clear on how their children will probably not struggle too much but will not have hair transplants at the top of their Things To Do list.

JBuk · 6 Mar 2018 at 09:52

Hades said:
Yes. He looks so much younger now. So if you're a shy balding middle aged man then get down the gym and shave your head.

Only took him 19 years

Ayahuasca · 6 Mar 2018 at 09:55

[FnG]magnolia said:
Bill and Melinda Gates have been very clear on how their children will probably not struggle too much but will not have hair transplants at the top of their Things To Do list.

It's a good thing Bill doesn't have trash tier hair genetics then isn't it, and looks like his son is doing just fine:

Hades · 6 Mar 2018 at 09:55

JBuk said:
Only took him 19 years

Which means he has (probably) been constantly improving himself for 19 years. Well done to him.

glenimp617 · 6 Mar 2018 at 11:36

dl8860 said:
Who is we? What do you spend a grand a year on at google? How do you spend 20k a year on amazon?

I would assume it's AWS.....as nobody in their right mind would use Azure (like a lot of Microsoft stuff these days)

413x · 6 Mar 2018 at 12:42

Not long before amazon becomes the highest valued company. Everything they touch works.

They'll buy Netflix next

Chojin · 6 Mar 2018 at 13:23

Between his Blue Origin and Elon Musk's SpaceX the private space industry is looking interesting these days. Would rather that than than the hoarding kind of billionaire.

jsmoke · 6 Mar 2018 at 13:25

He's 12.5/100 th's of a trillionaire.

robfosters · 6 Mar 2018 at 13:26

413x said:
Not long before amazon becomes the highest valued company. Everything they touch works.

They'll buy Netflix next

Kind of hope they do, and roll the two subs into one.

EyeDot · 6 Mar 2018 at 13:32

robfosters said:
Kind of hope they do, and roll the two subs into one.

Would really defeat the point of buying it then though no?

robfosters · 6 Mar 2018 at 13:48

EyeDot said:
Would really defeat the point of buying it then though no?

They would obviously up the price for the sub, but I’d love to able to pay for my amazon and Netflix access a year upfront, save all the direct debits each month.

Spook187 · 6 Mar 2018 at 13:56

Yawn another richest man in the graveyard.

Ayahuasca · 6 Mar 2018 at 13:58

Spook187 said:
Yawn another richest man in the graveyard.

Bezos will be fired into space, only peasants will be buried soon enough.

dowie · 6 Mar 2018 at 18:34

Spook187 said:
Yawn another richest man in the graveyard.

I dunno, with the amount of assets he's got perhaps he'll be the first human to cheat death - transplant his consciousness somewhere or regenerate his ageing body via some newly invented stem cell treatments etc...

first company that manages to achieve some progress towards that sort of goal (if done in the near future) would be a prime target for takeover by the likes of Google, Facebook, amazon etc.. and no doubt their ageing founders would be keen to make use of such advances themselves.

Russinating · 7 Mar 2018 at 22:02

dl8860 said:
Who is we? What do you spend a grand a year on at google? How do you spend 20k a year on amazon?

We = business. G Suite and by buying almost everything on Amazon, from stationery to cameras.

Merlin5 · 17 Jul 2018 at 11:41

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.

FishFluff · 17 Jul 2018 at 12:46

robgmun said:
Or he could be philanthropist but not show off about it, as i think as it should be

Showing off usually means raising awareness for the cause being donated to as well though.