Jeff Bezos founder and CEO of Amazon reached a net worth of $ 105.1 billion in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index representing Amazon.com Inc. He added that in the last 12 months Amazon increased its value in the online market by almost 57 percent.
The amazon earnings increased 6.6 percent this year, with a report showing that this company captured 89 percent of the purchases that were made online during the festive holidays of the year 2017, these sales lasted 5 weeks starting the day after day of thanks in the United States.
This last great leap pushed Bezos to a definitive fortune, which reached and surpassed companies like Microsoft Corp. founded by Bill Gates in 1999. The founder of Amazon surpassed Gates in October with a net worth of 93.8 billion dollars and his fortune crossed 100 billion dollars for the first time a month after this when the holiday sales began.
Gates would have achieved a net worth of more than 150 billion if he had kept his assets that he gifted, mostly to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It has given away an amount of almost 700 million Microsoft profits and 2.9 billion dollars in cash and goods, all of this happening since 1996, according to the analysis that it carried out to the public.
Bezos also controls space exploration companies, which are Blue Origin and in the same way the Washington Post.
Definitely this news is not seen every year and less a person earning these large sums of money, but we are yet to see how Jeff Bezos can surprise us in this new year.