CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos has become the first person in the world to have a net worth of $200 billion, Forbes report.

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As at Wednesday, August 26, 1:50pm ET, Jeff Bezos was reported to have been worth $204.6 billion after gaining 2% stock on Amazon. Jeff, who is the richest man on earth increased his worth from $74 billion to $204.6 billion.

Reports say the global pandemic affected the stocks of Amazon positively as many people were forced to buy online skyrocketing the company’s stock price.

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The company’s share price has surged more than 100% since March 16, when it was trading for less than $1,700 per share. Amazon is worth $1.72 trillion, making it the second most valuable company behind Apple, which is worth $2.16 trillion.

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Amazon Founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos added $13 billion to his net worth on Monday, July 20, the largest single-day jump for an individual since the Bloomberg Billionaires Index was created in 2012.

Amazon.com shares increased 7.9%, the most since December 2018 on rising optimism about web shopping trends, and are now up 73% this year, according to TIMES. 

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The 56year old Bezos, who is the world’s richest person, has seen his fortune skyrocket $74 billion in 2020 to $189.3 billion, despite the U.S. entering its worst economic downturn since the Great Depression during the 1930s. 

According to the publication, the American Billionaire is now personally worth more than the market valuation of giants such as Exxon Mobil Corp., Nike Inc., and McDonald’s Corp.

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Jeff’s ex-wife, Mackenzie Bezos, who is Amazon’s second-largest individual shareholder, following her divorce from the Amazon CEO also gained $4.6 billion Monday and is now the 13th-richest person in the world. She is worth over $55 billion. 

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Co-founder and CEO of popular social networking platform, twitter, Jack Dorsey, has expressed his worry as to what might have caused the hacking of multiple high profile accounts.

Jack in a tweet disclosed how difficult it has been for him and his teams working to find a lasting solution to the problem.

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He posted, “Tough day for us at Twitter. We all feel terrible this happened.

We’re diagnosing and will share everything we can when we have a more complete understanding of exactly what happened.

💙 to our teammates working hard to make this right.”

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A series of high profile twitter users including Bill Gates and Amazon Founder, Jeff Bezos have been under attack from hackers in a bitcoin scam in the last 24 hours.

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In 2019, the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos had to transfer some 19.7 million shares (4%) of Amazon.com Inc. to MacKenzie, his ex-wife. That 4% holding was valued at $38.3 billion.

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Nevertheless, Bloomberg still ranks Jeff Bezos as the richest person in the world, even after losing $10 billion in one year.

Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos announced their divorce via Twitter on Jan. 9, saying they decided to split “after a long period of loving exploration and trial separation.”

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The message said they plan to remain friends. The couple were married for 25 years. But even during their divorce, reports of Jeff’s girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez, started emerging.

Lauren Sanchez is said to be the ex-wife of WME talent agent Patrick Whitesell.

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Months after his divorce, Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend were captured as they pose for a picture during their visit at the Taj Mahal in India.

Check out the photo below:

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