THE WEALTH OF BEZOS INCREASED BY $ 13 BILLION IN ONE DAY
While the coronavirus outbreak leaves many companies in trouble, interest in e-commerce platforms is increasing day by day.Currently, online sales have been steadily rising in recent years.However, the coronavirus outbreak speeded up this process of change enormously.In the US alone, in the first 6 months of the year, online shopping rose by 73 percent compared to the same period last year.This naturally reflected positively on the shares of e-commerce companies. Shares of Amazon, which is one of the companies that eat the most of the slides of this development, rose 7.9 percent yesterday. The company's market value has reached $ 1.59 trillion. The total wealth of Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos also increased by $ 13 billion in just one day, reaching $ 189.3 billion in just one day.
AMAZON SHARES INCREASED BY 68 PERCENT IN 2020
According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index data created in 2012, this was the biggest increase in wealth in 1 day.Amazon shares have risen 68 percent so far by 2020.In the same way, the fortune of 56-year-old Jeff Bezos, the richest person in the world, has increased by $ 74 billion in the last 7 months and 3 weeks.Microsoft Founder Bill Gates follows Bezos with his $ 118 billion fortune in the billionaires index.Bezos famously started his company in his garage in the mid-1990s, rapidly expanding from selling books to establish an online juggernaut that spans the world.Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos' ex-wife MacKenzie Bezos increased his fortune yesterday to $ 4.58 billion thanks to his Amazon shares.MacKenzie Bezos, whose total wealth reaches $ 63.1 billion, is the 13th richest person in the world.
Jeff Bezos currently has an aerospace research company called Blue Origin.It is known as the biggest rival of Elon Musk because it has taken steps regarding space tourism and satellite studies.Spacex and Blue Origin are known to be competing to sign a contract with NASA.