Jeff Bezos
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Imo he looks like he is probably on testosterone or something they love giving test injections out to over 50’s at the doctors in the US. He looks younger and fresher but that muscle mass for someone his age would be very hard to achieve without some help. Especially because he obviously never used to lift at all even looking at him 5-10 years ago he was still a skinny guy. Fair play to him though he looks far better than he did.
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Hasn't Bill Gates donated over $50bn though?
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He is probably on HGH and test. You start losing energy at that age if not.
They all go to those anti aging clinics and they prescribe you stuff. Hell i'm 100% doing the same when i'm in mid 40's.
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Why would he do that if he’s healthy? That stuff can cause catastrophic side effects.
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Welcome to the past 200 years of capitalism???? Although his wealth isn't sat anywhere since it's all in stocks. One bad day and it's all gone.
I don't buy the idea that people wouldn't do anything without being able to get this rich either. We'd just have a different group of people doing the innovating... i.e. people who aren't greedy and doing things for all the wrong reasons.
That sounds like idealism
He does cash in a few hundred million a year so I think he'd be OK
Amazon isn't going to disappear in a day btw.. there are real assets there. Most billionaires won't have all their wealth in cash and it isn't like currencies don't fluctuate in value either.
I can understand the sentiment if it is say some new millionaire start up founder/entrepreneur who is basing their wealth on the fact some investor paid X for 10% of their company and therefore they're now "worth" 9 times X... at least on paper. But this is an established public company we're talking about.
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He does cash in a few hundred million a year so I think he'd be OK
Amazon isn't going to disappear in a day btw.. there are real assets there. Most billionaires won't have all their wealth in cash and it isn't like currencies don't fluctuate in value either.
I can understand the sentiment if it is say some new millionaire start up founder/entrepreneur who is basing their wealth on the fact some investor paid X for 10% of their company and therefore they're now "worth" 9 times X... at least on paper. But this is an established public company we're talking about.
A few hundred million a year is nothing compared to $100+ billion. The real physical assets that Amazon owns are also less than that, at around $85 billion. Bezos shareholding represents about 16% of Amazon's total shares. It's all imaginary wealth and a world event could destroy it instantly.
He still wouldn't be short of a few bob
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damn, he's got the Vern Schillinger look going.......
Literally came in here to post the exact same thing. I hope i never run into him in prison.
dunno....given his wealth it might be worth 'taking' one
- thing of the money you'd make telling your story to the press 
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dunno....given his wealth it might be worth 'taking' one
"I was Daddy Amazons prison wife"....yeah i'd read that.
The success of Amazon always baffled me somewhat. From customer perspective they have terrible search engine, that always shows wrong things, and that hasn't been addressed for decades. If you're company and need invoices, it's nee impossible to obtain proper vat invoices on some of the Prime, delivered by Amazon products. From seller perspective their fees are often outrageous and product database design is just shocking - you introduce a product on Amazon, obtain unique product number, do the copy, photos, spend months on building up reviews and then overseas company with knock off "genuine copy" product and dropshippers in every university dorm swoops in, hijacks your product page, undercuts you by at least VAT amount, then wrecks feedback of your product in days. Then there is the whole FBA movement where any housewife out there can pay for access to software finding cheaper items on the net, then flood FBA with items at a few quid profit (she can - she won't have overheads of PAYE or corporate taxes) undercutting wholesalers. All delivered to your door by a random guy with an estate car. It's such a mess, compared to any other platform, it doesn't work properly for either sellers or buyers and yet it's like deers in headlights - we all go selling there and shopping there.
Well he's got a few billion in other assets at least so I wouldn't say he's got nothing. A "world event" could do the same re wealth held in cash. I don't really see your point tbh... if you have a "world event" that can cause amazon's stock to go from current value to worthless in a day then you'll probably find these "real assets" aren't worth much either and frankly nor is hard currency.
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I agree with all of this. Worse still is that deliveries are constantly missed for me, and it's not easy to contact customer service. There there is the weird checkout process where you cannot see the delivery cost until immediately before final paying click, and you can;t get back to the store should you decided you want to add more to your basket.