Jeff Bezos is the richest man in modern history, are you listening people?
This fascinating news comes right after the e commerce giant Amazon’s stock price surged after its Prime Day sale. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Amazon.com Inc., founder’s net worth crossed $ 150 billion in New York, recently. Jeff Bezos who is 54 years old, surpassed Bill Gates in inflation adjusted terms. The $ 100 billion mark that Gates hit briefly in 1999 at the peak of the dot com boom in the US, would be now worth about $ 149 billion in today’s currency rate. Henceforth, making the Amazon chief executive officer richer than anyone else on earth since, how cool is that! The American CEO amassed more wealth than anyone, since 1982. That was the year in which Forbes started publishing its top 20 billionaires of 1982 list. Currently, the tech giant Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates stands second in the list followed by Warren Buffet, Bernard Arnault, Mark Zuckerberg and other executives. Bezos’ net worth has soared by $ 52 billion this year, which is more than the entire fortune of Mukesh Ambani, the newly crowned richest person in Asia. It also climbs Bezos’ personal fortune within spitting distance of the Walton family’s $ 151.5 billion. The Waltons are the world’s richest dynasty.
Amazon was founded by Bezos in the year 1994 as an online book store. Later it went ahead to expand its operations to sell a variety of products. Bezos first appeared on the Forbes 400 list of America’s richest people in 1998, with a net worth of $ 1.6 billion, a year after Amazon made its debut in the public market. After years of struggle and hard work, this e commerce giant announced its 304 million active member accounts toward the end of 2015. Moving on, Amazon’s stock soared by 60 % and its market values more than $ 890 billion.
Apart from Amazon, Jeff Bezos owns the American newspaper company Washington Post and the aerospace manufacturer Blue Origin.
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