Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, the richest man in the world, took his own rocket into space on Tuesday. In the 11-minute up and down flight, the billionaire may have made nearly $1.6 million.
According to the latest estimates, Bezos is worth US$206 billion. Bloomberg Billionaire Index. He is still the richest man on the planet, nearly 30 billion dollars ahead of first place. 2. Elon Musk, SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO.
According to Bloomberg News, Bezos’ net worth increased by $75 billion last year because of the increase in online shopping during the pandemic and Amazon’s stock price soared. According to the growth of net assets, Bezos has monthly income of 6.25 billion U.S. dollars, weekly income of 1.44 billion U.S. dollars, daily income of 205 million U.S. dollars, hourly income of 8.56 million U.S. dollars, and per minute income of 142,667 U.S. dollars. independent.
However, if the calculation is based on his annual income of US$1,681,840, which includes his annual base salary of US$81,840, the billionaire’s monthly income is US$140,153, US$32,343 per week, US$4,608 per day, and US$192 per hour or per month. $3.20 per minute. .
Most of his wealth is in Amazon. After stepping down as CEO earlier this month, he still holds 10.3% of Amazon. Forbes Report.
In addition to being the largest online retailer, the company also controls Whole Foods and provides cloud computing and streaming services. According to Bloomberg News, Amazon’s 2020 revenue is $386 billion.
Bezos founded Amazon in 1994 in a garage in Seattle, Washington. According to reports, until Amazon stock began to soar in 2014, and Bezos’s net worth reached $50 billion in 2015, he was basically not paid attention. Celebrity net worth.
In 2017, Bezos briefly surpassed Microsoft’s Bill Gates to become the world’s richest man. A year later, Amazon’s market value exceeded $1 trillion, pushing the wealth of Bezos, who had 80 million shares at the time, to new heights.
Even after 25 years of marriage with MacKenzie Scott in 2019, Bezos is still the world’s richest man and transferred a quarter of his 16% Amazon shares to his ex-wife. Forbes Report.
On July 5th, the billionaire officially stepped down as CEO of Amazon for 27 years and became executive chairman, transferring power to Andy Jassy, who is responsible for running Amazon’s cloud computing business.
In addition to Amazon, Bezos also founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and suborbital space services company, which successfully took the billionaire and three other civilians into space and returned on Tuesday. The crew, including his brother Mark Bezos, 82-year-old aviation pioneer Wally Fink, and 18-year-old Dutch student Oliver Damen, flew into space on the rocket ship New Shepard. CNN Report.
Bezos’ 11-minute space flight rose to more than 60 miles on the Earth’s surface, laying the foundation for commercial passenger services to begin later this year.
Jeff Bezos founded one of the world’s most successful multinational companies from his garage startup
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