Jeff Bezos has become the richest person ever

[TheWorldNewsOrg]

The Amazon founder's wealth rocketed to $105.1 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, after shares in the company soared on strong holiday sales. The record was previously held by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, whose net worth was briefly above $100 billion in 1999. (And he'd still top the chart if he hadn’t given so much of his wealth to charity.) But if you account for inflation, Bezos has competition; Augustus Caesar's fortune, for example, could be worth a cool $5 trillion. Either way, the Amazon chief is worth more than the GDP of 125 of the world’s 195 countries.

[Just another man]

I think he has hit 170B now.....in such a short time btw....

The Jeff Bezos Empire in One Giant Chart

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/jeff-bezos-empire-chart/

[TheWorldNewsOrg]

And that’s without the chart even mentioning Amazon Web Services, which is arguably the most valuable part of the Amazon brand ($35 billion in revenue in 2019)

 

[TheWorldNewsOrg]

Born the son of a single teen mom who was so strapped she couldn’t afford a phone.

In 1995, Jackie and Mike Bezos plowed $245,573 into their son’s fledgling e-commerce website, according to a prospectus two years later. It was a big gamble, Mike Bezos, the stepfather of Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos, recalled onstage during a 2015 event at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.