Recently, there was a report in the media that a third member had joined the elite society of people with more than $ 100 billion, alongside Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg. Now Elon Musk has joined the club of billionaires. However, the elite circle of people currently has only three members: the founder of Amazon has formed his own imaginary group.
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Jeff Bezos achieved assets worth $ 200 billion (approximately 4.5 trillion crowns). For comparison, the Czech Republic’s annual gross domestic product in 2018 was $ 245 billion. The founder of Amazon is the first person to reach this limit, and he is by far the richest man in modern history. His fortune represents almost one percent of US GDP, or he could buy more than 10 percent of all homes on offer in the United States, he calculates index Bloomberg agency.
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According to the magazine Forbes it is also the richest in inflation. The second richest man is Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who has assets worth approximately $ 124 billion.
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The most expensive divorce in history
Bezos broke the border on Wednesday thanks to rising Amazon stock prices. The value of the company has increased by 25 percent in the last three months and by 86 percent since the beginning of this year, Refinitiv calculated. Bezos himself has added an incredible $ 86 billion to his wealth since the beginning of the year. The founder of Amazon broke the record of the richest man in modern history for the second time in two months. It reached $ 172 billion in early July.
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Thanks to its 57 million shares in Amazon, the vast majority of its assets are owned by 11 to 12 percent of the company. But his property also includes The Washington Post and the Blue Origin space company. The value of Jeff Bezos’s assets is therefore greatly affected by any movement in stock prices, but this is the virtual wealth that all multibillionaires have.
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But Jeff Bezos could have been a lot richer if he hadn’t divorced his wife MacKenzie Scott last year after 25 years. She acquired a quarter of his shares in the company and is currently the second richest woman in the world. In front of her is only Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, the granddaughter of the founder of L’Oréal, Eugènen Schueller.
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Musk meta
On the same day that Jeff Bezos conquered the border, Elon Musk, who acquired $ 100 billion in assets, swung over another. Bloomberg. A similar piece was recently performed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Musk’s wealth has been down since January index increased by more than 73 billion.
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According to Bloomberg, the 500 richest people have made a cumulative profit of $ 809 billion since the beginning of the year. The further richness of the richest provoked sharp reactions from many American politicians. “We can no longer allow billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk to become obscenely rich, while millions of Americans face evictions, hunger and economic despair,” left-wing Senator Bernie Sanders said in a statement on Wednesday. “It’s time to fundamentally change our national priorities.”
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Musk owes most of its wealth to its carmaker Tesla, which has increased the price by 400 percent since the beginning of the year. The share price was so high that the company proceeded to divide it, which will take place at the end of August. As of June 2020, Elon Musk owned over 40 million shares, representing approximately $ 87 billion of its total wealth, the server writes. Business Insider.
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Dominance of the Big Five
All four of the world’s richest men are united by a world of technology. They all lead technology giants who have turned into complete colossi during the pandemic. The Big Five (Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft), as these giants have come to be called, is even pulling the entire S&P 500 index up to historic highs, despite a huge drop in March. Some economists are exaggerating for renaming the index to S&P 5 because of how dominant these companies are.
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Apple recently became the world’s highest-ranking company, overtaking Saudi oil company Saudi Aramco.
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