Jeff Bezos now worth $200 billion!

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Jeff Bezos the world’s richest person is now wealthier than he’s ever been. Jeff Bezos is best known as the founder and president of multi-national technology company Amazon. Bezos has been the world’s richest person since 2017. On Wednesday, he passed another milestone and became world’s first ever person to surpass the $200 billion mark. Yes, Jeff Bezos is now worth an enormous $200 billion.

Jeff Bezos : Top Billionaire

The fiery growth in his fortune is being determined by his holdings in Amazon. The company’s stock has now rose up about 25% in these last three months. And has set a record high of $3,438 per share. Bezos founded amazon in 1994.

The change happened in consumer habits due to corona virus pandemic, Amazon’s stock has been influenced. They increased around 85% since the beginning of the year. This pandemic has benefitted in escalation of his wealth as people are shifting towards online buying.

Bezos is not the only tech titan with fortunes. Other tech tycoons have been getting much wealthier thought the pandemic.

  • Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, earlier this month his net wealth surpassed $100 billion.
  • Tesla’s shares has reached an extraordinary status. Making CEO Elon Musk reach a net worth of $100 billion.
  • Apple’s CEO Tim Cook also became a billionaire recently and his company’s market price is considered as the most valuable on the planet.
  • Bill Gates is now has a personal fortune worth $124 billion making him the world’s second richest person.

Bezos would be richer if he had not gone through with the very expensive divorce settlement in the history of all time, last year. MacKenzie Scott, his ex-wife was given 25% of Amazon’s shares which is now worth $63 billion. Even after all this Bezos records $200 billion personal wealth and became the first man in the history to achieve this.

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