Bezos (Amazon) second richest in the world

Bezos (Amazon) second richest in the world

Tech March 31, 2017 08:54

seattle - Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, after Bill Gates became the richest person in the world. That is thanks to the acquisition of the Arab Souq.com shop.

Since the acquisition of Souq has increased the share of Amazon. This has increased the capacity of Bezos in a few days with $ 1.5 billion. Bezos has already earned $ 10.2 billion since the beginning of this year.

Bezos owns now $ 75.6 billion. This is converted just over 70 billion euros. That he went super investor Warren Buffett and Amancio Ortega Zara founder passed the billionaire rankings from Bloomberg. Gates, the richest man on earth, good for a wealth of $ 86 billion.

Bezos started Amazon online store in 1994. com. He is also the man behind space company Blue Origin and owner of the large newspaper The Washington Post. He has invested in companies like Airbnb, Uber and Twitter. In 1998 he put a quarter million dollars in the then new search engine Google. The shares he received in return, is now worth about $ 3 billion.

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