Forbes points out that the multimillionaire’s achievement has been possible after Amazon shares closed the day on Wednesday on the NY stock exchange revaluing above 2%, with which his fortune jumped from 4.9 billion to over 200 billion.
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The president of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, considered the richest man in the world, has managed to accumulate a fortune of 200,000 million dollars, according to Forbes magazine reported on Wednesday 26-A, which points out that in the forty years he has been monitoring the richest people on the planet, no one had ever reached this milestone.
Forbes points out that the achievement of the billionaire has been possible after Amazon shares closed the trading day on Wednesday in the New York Stock Exchange revaluing above 2%, with which his fortune jumped of 4.900 million exceeding 200,000 millions.
According to the magazine, the value of the 56-year-old businessman’s assets at 17.50 GMT on Wednesday on the Wall Street stock market amounted to 204.6 billion dollars, about 90 billion more than the second richest man in the world, Bill Gates. , whose fortune is valued at 116.1 billion, according to Forbes.
Amazon shares closed the day with an increase of 2.85%, although at 21.00 GMT, during electronic operations after the close of the New York stock market, the values of his company lost 0.08%.
The magazine considers that even taking inflation into account, Bezos’ fortune is the largest ever amassed.
In this sense, he points out that Bill Gates, who became the first billionaire to exceed 100 billion dollars, has never come close to the figure that Bezos has exceeded.
The company founded by Bezos has been one of the technology companies that has benefited from the isolation measures imposed in dozens of countries around the world and its shares have appreciated about 80 percent since the beginning of the year.
Thus, the businessman, who is also the owner of the Washington Post newspaper or the aerospace company Blue Origin, has seen his fortune increase from 115,000 million, on January 1, to 200,000 today.
Forbes adds that Bezos owns 11% of Amazon, which represents 90% of his fortune.
The billionaire divorced last year from MacKenzie Scott, to whom he gave 25% of the shares he owned in Amazon.
Currently, Scott, with a fortune of 63,000 million dollars, is considered by the magazine as the fourteenth richest person on the planet.
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