Amazon founder Jeff Bezos surpassed Bill Gates in July 2017
to become not only the world’s richest man, but the richest person in the world
with an estimated net worth of $112 billion, according to Forbes’s 2018
Billionaires List.
Bezos’s fortune jumped in 2017 amid a remarkable year for
the retail giant, in which the company bought Whole Foods in June 2017 and had
a record-breaking Amazon Prime Day.
Bezos, who bought The Washington Post in 2013 for $250
million, owns about 17% of Amazon.com, which is part of what buoyed him to the
world’s richest man. Morgan Stanley analysts predicted the company would soon
be worth $1 trillion, and Bezos himself earned $20 million in the last year.
source:http://time.com/money/4746795/richest-people-in-the-world/
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