Surpassing Bill Gates and Musk. Amazon shares rose 4.1% on Tuesday, becoming the best-performing component of the S&P 500 index, driving its founder Jeff Bezos’s worth soaring by US$7.2 billion overnight, reaching US$197.8 billion, making it the first billionaire on the planet to reach US$200 billion. It’s not far. This is the highest wealth recorded in the Forbes Global Rich List nearly 40 years in history .
As of Tuesday’s close, Amazon’s market value reached $1.66 trillion. Bezos holds 11.1% of the company’s shares.
With Amazon’s stock price running wild in recent months, the gap between Bezos and the world’s second-richest, Bill Gates, has grown wider. Gates is currently behind Bezos by $83.8 billion, almost equivalent to the Forbes rich list. The total worth of Musk, ranked fifth. Tesla shares rose 2.8% on Tuesday, pushing Musk’s worth to $85.6 billion.
With the rise of Amazon’s stock price, Bezos’s ex-wife Mackenzie’s worth increased by 2 billion US dollars on Tuesday, reaching 62.7 billion US dollars.
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