The boss of Amazon surpassed the symbolic mark of $ 200 billion in wealth on August 26. In eight months, he amassed more than 87, setting a new record. He benefited from the excellent figures of Amazon, boosted by the pandemic.
On August 26, the agency’s ranking Bloomberg unveiled a new record: that of the greatest fortune ever reached by a man since the creation of this index.
The founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, thus posted a heritage estimated at 202 billion dollars (approximately 170 billion euros).
BFM TV also noted that the heritage of the founder of Amazon had “increased by more than 87 billion dollars in 2020, or nearly 11 billion more each month”, a record there too. Jeff Bezos has in fact benefited from the record rise in the value of Amazon shares in recent months, with the platform having seen sales increase since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and the containment that has been imposed in its wake in many years. Many countries.
His assets being dependent on the stock market price because mainly made up of shares of his company, Jeff Bezos had on August 28 more than a fortune of 200 billion dollars. In 2018, Jeff Bezos had already broken a record. In 12 months, his fortune had increased by nearly 80 billion dollars (nearly 67 billion euros). The first Frenchman, Bernard Arnaud, is in fifth position. The boss of the luxury group LVMH has a fortune estimated at more than 72 billion euros.
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