Amazon founder became the richest businessman in the world
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has become the richest businessman in the world by Forbes. Against the background of growth of stock quotes of the Internet retailer he has overtaken Microsoft founder bill gates.
According to Forbes counter in real time, as Bezos is $90.6 billion, and gates — $90,1 billion, to Bypass the gates, the Bezos allowed the growth of Amazon’s stock, on July 27 at the opening of trading on the NASDAQ Thursday paper online retailer rose 1.8%.
In March, the global ranking of billionaires Forbes, Bezos was located only on the third place with $72.8 bn (calculated as of February 17). Thus, for five and a half months Bezos became richer by $17.8 billion.
The main asset Bezos is the share’s largest online retailer, Amazon (who owns 16.7% of the company). The company was founded in 1994 as an online bookstore in 1997 held its IPO. Amazon has become one of those companies that managed to survive the “dotcom crash” (sudden collapse of the shares of high-tech sector in 2000). The capitalization of the company in recent months steadily increased since the beginning of the year it rose by $146 billion on July 26, Amazon was worth more than $500 billion (in the U.S. only three other such companies — Google, Apple and Microsoft). The most recent major transaction Amazon was the acquisition of a network of health food stores Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion
In addition, the Bezos owned aerospace company Blue Origin. The company was founded in 2001, but the first customer she has appeared only in March 2017 — the contract for the launch was concluded with the French satellite operator Eutelsat. The goal of Blue Origin is the development of space tourism as a business. In 2014, a company spokesman said that Bezos has invested in Blue Origin is at least $500 million In April 2017, the businessman said that Blue Origin funded by selling shares of Amazon at $1 billion annually. In the spring of 2016 Bezos said that the company will start to send tourists into space in 2018. For these purposes, will be built six ships of the New Shepard, capable of lifting six passengers to an altitude of over 100 km above the Earth’s surface — enough to feel weightlessness and see the planet from space.