The world’s richest man has reached a net worth of $ 211 billion due to a 4.7% increase in Amazon shares, fueled by a Pentagon announcement that he will cancel the cloud-computing contract originally awarded to rival Microsoft.
Thus, the advance of the shares increased his fortune Jeff Bezos by $ 8.4 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
The last time a person in the Bloomberg ranking approached such an amount was in January, the head of Tesla sings Elon Musk it briefly reached the 210 billion mark. Musk and Bezos spent the first part of the year constantly changing the title of the richest man in the world, but the founder of Amazon cemented his position in mid-March, when the shares of the American giant increased by almost 20%, Mediafax reports. ro.
Currently, the price of an Amazon share is $ 3,675, up 4.7%, and the company’s market value exceeds $ 1.85 trillion.
Bezos’ results managed to surpass even the gains made during the Amazon rally in 2020, when the entrepreneur’s net worth reached $ 206.9 billion due to the transition to the digital environment caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Bezos, 57, left the position of Amazon CEO this week after a 27-year reign. The executive director is now Andy Jassy, the former head of the Amazon Web Services cloud division. Meanwhile, Bezos still owns 11% of the company and holds the position of executive chairman of Amazon, notes Bloomberg.
The Pentagon announced yesterday that it will give up the $ 10 billion cloud computing contract offered in 2019 to the Microsoft group. At the time, Amazon said the decision was heavily influenced by the whims of the former US president. Donald Trump. However, the Pentagon is now signaling its willingness to split the contract between Microsoft and Amazon.
MacKenzie Scott, Bezos’ ex-wife and the 15th richest person in the world, reported a $ 2.9 billion increase in his net worth, eclipsing the amount he donated this year – $ 2.7 billion. dollars.
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