Founder and CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos bypassed the co-founder of Microsoft with bill gates in the ranking of the richest people in the world.
According to Bloomberg, today, July 27, in the course of the trading value of the shares of the Internet giant rose by 1.2%. Because of this, the state of Bezos, who owns 17% of the company’s shares increased by 1.4 billion and amounted to 90.9 billion dollars, 200 million more than gates.
Thus, Jeff Bezos, who also owns the publishing house for the Washington Post, was able to lead the ranking of richest people in the world and move from the top of the list, Microsoft founder. 61-year-old gates held the title of richest person on the planet for more than four years, starting in may 2013.
It is worth noting that Bezos first got into the list of the richest people in 1998, when Amazon became public and began to gain momentum. In the ranking of the richest people in the world by Forbes in early 2017 he took third place with 72.8 billion dollars. However, in March, the American became the second, beating the President of Inditex, Amancio Ortega and adding to his condition 15 billion.
Since the beginning of the year capitalization of Amazon rose more than 40% and now amounts to 503,2 billion dollars.
