The founder and head of Amazon Jeff Bezos became the richest man on the planet, overtaking in the ranking of Forbes bill gates. In a matter of hours he managed to increase his fortune by 10 billion dollars due to a sharp rise in price of the stock led by trading online platform.
Now as Bezos is estimated at $93.1 billion — it is $3 billion richer than Microsoft founder.
On Friday, after the publication of the quarterly report Amazon’s shares in the company began to grow rapidly — as of 20:00 price for 1 piece was $1102 — 13.22 % more than the day before.
Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and a year later launched the site. At the beginning, it sold only books, and these days the online service covers 34 categories of consumer goods and is the world’s largest trading platform on the Internet.
This success is online retailer is obligated to his Creator, who was able to quickly navigate the changing environment of the market and the first to adopt the potential of the world wide web.
According to one version, it was his idea to leave feedback for the purchased goods, making trade through the Internet is convenient and transparent.
To date, the company Bezos has a lot of branches outside of the United States and more than 40 subsidiaries, including Alexa Internet, Acom, Brilliance Audio and Lab 126.
In April of last year, Amazon has registered a patent application for a flying warehouses airships, and in December carried out the first delivery by a drone.
