amazon founder net worth
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has reached a net worth of $100 billion — it's enough this holiday to buy over half a billion Echo speakers or pay the yearly subscriptions of more than 670 million Amazon Music Unlimited accounts. Bloomberg calculated that Gates would have a net worth of about $150 billion if not for donating large portions of his wealth to charitable causes. Bezos has been giving away Amazon shares worth about $500 million every year since 2002. The Net Worth of Amazon’s Jeff BezosThe net worth of Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is $81.1 billion, making him the second richest person alive. By Laura Woods | May 17, 2017. Bezos is the first person to reach a net worth of over $100 billion since Microsoft's Bill Gates in 1999, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Bezos is the first person to reach a net worth of over $100 billion since Microsoft's Bill Gates in 1999, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos became the only billionaire in the world to have a twelve-digit fortune on Monday morning, when his net worth topped $100 billion for the first time, according to Forbes' Real-Time Billionaire Rankings. Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates was briefly worth $100 billion in April 1999, when Microsoft stock hit a peak. Now, nearly twenty years later, Gates is the second richest person in the world behind Bezos, worth $89.4 billion – excluding the more than $35 billion he has given to his foundation in his lifetime. Jeff Bezos, the founder and principal shareholder of Amazon, has become the first person in the 21st century with a net worth over $100 billion thanks to a Black Friday boost to Amazon’s stocks. Bezos’ wealth reached $100.3 billion on Black Friday, according to Bloomberg. The 53-year-old businessman is the first person to reach a net worth of over $100 billion since Gates in 1999, according to Bloomberg. Gates was the world's richest person prior to Bezos' climb and is now worth almost $90 billion. Bezos briefly overtook Gates in October to become the world’s richest man after a spectacular year that saw his net worth climb from around $60 billion to over $100 billion, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index. Bezos, whose mother gave birth to him when she was a teenager, came from a tough background to found Amazon in 1994. Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos became the only billionaire in the world to have a twelve-digit fortune on Monday morning, when his net worth topped $100 billion for the first time, according to Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaire Rankings, which calculates his wealth at $100.2 billion as of 1 p.m. Eastern on Monday, up more than $600 million from Friday, November 24.
The net worth of Amazon Founder $81.1 billion.