Getting rich in Corona: Jeff Bezos added the insane amount to his fortune in just 24 hours • His ex-wife: The second richest woman in the world
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The richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, which has a fortune of about $ 189.3 billion (as of last Monday), managed to reach that amount after adding $ 13 billion to his fortune - which he earned in just one day.
The Gizmodo website reports that according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, the increase in capital occurred after the value of the company's stock rose, with online shopping intensifying and increased consumption of cloud services following the Corona plague, which made Bezos richer by another $ 13 billion in 24 hours. This is the largest increase in private capital observed in a single day since the Bloomberg Billionaires Index was established in 2012. Since the beginning of 2020, Bezos' personal fortune has increased by $ 74.4 billion.
The rise in stock value has occurred despite numerous complaints about Amazon, which pays extremely low wages to its warehouse workers, who hold long shifts around the clock. Despite the complaints, no change has taken place in the company, and some argue that the situation is even getting worse.
The Gizmodo website also reports that according to a April study, 34 of the 170 richest people in the United States "watched their wealth increase by tens of millions of dollars" during the plague. In addition to Bezos, Corona's Elon Musk, founder of PayPal and Tesla, Eric Yuan, founder of Zoom, Steve Balmer, former Microsoft CEO and owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, and real estate tycoon John Soberto also entered the list. The report also said that "the growth in Bezos' wealth is unprecedented in financial history, and continues to grow day by day." For comparison, Mark Zuckerberg earned a total of $ 14.8 billion in the past year, which is now $ 93.1 billion.
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The Bloomberg Index also noted that the fortune of Bezos' ex-wife, Mackenzie, who parted ways with him last year, grew to around $ 4.6 billion on Monday, placing her 13th on the list of the richest men in the world and the second richest woman, right after the heiress of the L'Oreal Francois empire In Tancourt Myers. Unlike her husband, Mackenzie has signed a “commitment to give” venture, under which billions of signatories to the venture pledge to donate 50 percent of their capital to charity.
