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Jeff Bezos Net Worth Surpasses $100B, After Bill Gates

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Jeff Bezos Net Worth Surpasses $100B, After Bill Gates

Jeff Bezos worth surpassed $100 billion! As per the Bloomberg's reports, Amazon Inc founder's net worth has exceeded $100 billion for the first time. As the online retailer's shares jumped more than 2 percent due to sale on Black Friday Amazon, it added $2.4 billion worth to Jeff making it to a total of $100,3 billion. Jeff already surpassed Bill Gates in October as the world's richest man, and became the 53rd person to hit a 12-figure worth after Gates in 1999. As per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index Bezos's net fortune rose $32.6 billion this year through Thursday, the largest increase of anyone on the index. Unlike Gates or Warren Buffet, Bezos has given relatively little of his fortune to charity. Bezos is though planning to focus on philanthropy and asked for ideas on Twi...

Jeff Bezos Surpasses Bill Gates, Becomes The Richest Person- Again

Amazon.com Inc's post-earnings surge has pushed Jeff Bezos to the top of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index for the first time, ahead of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates who had held the spot as the richest person on Earth for four years. Bloomberg Billionaire Index showed that Jeff Bezos added $10.4 billion to his net worth as Amazon shares rose to 13 percent. At the close of U.S. markets Friday, Bezos held a net worth of $93.8 billion, $5.1 billion ahead of Gates on the Bloomberg index, who was at $88.7 billion. Earlier this year, Bill Gates donated 64 million of the Microsoft's shares worth US$4.6 billion. Reports suggest that this was the largest gift that Gates made since 2000. Bill gates gave away $16 billion worth of Microsoft shares in 1999 and $5.1 billion a year lat...

Zara Founder Amancio Ortega Becomes The World’s Richest Man, Beating Bill Gates

Spanish retailer Amancio Ortega became the world's richest person on Tuesday, claiming the crown for less than a day. Ortega, 81, is now worth an estimated $85 billion, according to Forbes’ real-time rankings of the world’s billionaires. His net worth is up $1.2 billion in the last month Amancio Ortega, founder of Zara's parent company Inditex SA and Europe's wealthiest person claimed the title of 'World's Richest Person' for a while on Tuesday. (more…)