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The first centibillionaire on the Forbes Real Time Billionaires Index and the second ever to have eclipsed the feat since Bill Gates in 1999, Bezos was named the "richest man in modern history" after his net worth increased to $150 billion in July 2018. [7] In August 2020, according to Forbes, he had a net worth exceeding $200 billion. On July ...
Bezos finally decided that his new business would sell books online, because of the large worldwide demand for literature, the low unit price for books, and the huge number of titles available in print. [12] Amazon was founded in the garage of Bezos' rented home in Bellevue. [9] [13] [14] Bezos' parents invested almost $246,000 in the start-up ...
In January 2019, Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie Scott, released a joint statement that they would be getting divorced, after 25 years together. [29] [30] In February 2019, Bezos published a blog post alleging that National Enquirer publisher American Media, Inc. had attempted blackmail and extortion, in connection with Bezos's affair with ...
Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos is now the second-richest person in the world with a net worth of $181.7 billion as of Jan. 12, according to Forbes. As Bezos gets ready to celebrate his 57th ...
Two years after Amazon first went public, Bezos was already a billionaire, sharing his take on what built his booming e-commerce business. Praising his employees for being “the hardest working ...
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3. Travis Kalanick. Net worth: $3 billion First job: Door-to-door sales, 1998 Salary then: $10.26 per hour That salary today: $15.36 per hour Uber founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick’s first ...
A record of 2,208 billionaires were in the ranking and the total wealth was $9.1 trillion, up 18% since 2017. For the first time, Jeff Bezos was listed as the top billionaire due to Amazon's rising stock price that resulted in one person's biggest one-year gain in wealth ($35 billion) since Forbes started tracking in 1987. [16]