According to Forbes, Amazon CEO JEFFREY PRESTON BEZOS is now the richest person in the world for the second time as Amazon stock opened up more than 8% higher than Thursday’s close, adding nearly $7 billion to Bezos’ net worth overnight.
JEFFREY PRESTON BEZOS is an American technology and retail
entrepreneur, investor, computer
scientist, and philanthropist, best known as the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of “Amazon.com” the world's largest online shopping retailer. The
company began as an Internet merchant
of books and expanded to a wide variety of products and services, most recently video
streaming and audio streaming. Amazon.com is
currently the world's largest Internet sales company on the World
Wide Web, as well as the world's largest
provider of cloud infrastructure
services, which is available through its Amazon Web Services arm.
Bezos had a net worth of $89.7 billion, as of the start of
trading on Friday, while Gates had a net worth of $90.1 billion, up $550
million from yesterday. Then by 10:15 a.m. Eastern, Amazon stock had climbed
nearly 2% since the market opened, adding $900 million to Bezos’ net worth and
putting him in the No. 1 spot with a net worth of $90.6 billion versus Gates’
$90.1 billion at that time.
Amazon stock surged in after-hours trading on
Thursday after the company reported strong third quarter earnings. Amazon
reported $43.7 billion in revenue, well above the $42.1 billion analysts
expected.
Bezos became the richest person in the world for the first time
three months ago as Amazon stock hit an all-time high on July 27, just before
Amazon reported its second quarter earnings. But Bezos’ first time at the top
of Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires List only lasted a few hours.
Bezos first joined the Forbes 400 in 1998, one year after Amazon
went public, with a net worth of $1.6 billion
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