Jeff Bezos has added $68.6 billion to his wealth to date this year, more than $67.7 billion Net Worth of Facebook Co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Bezos’ wealth has increased by an average of approximately $8 million an hour in 2018.
The founder of American electronic commerce and cloud computing company Amazon and world’s richest person Jeff Bezos has added $68.6 billion to his wealth to date this year, more than $67.7 billion net worth of Facebook Co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.
Bezos’ earnings are also more than net worth’s of Google Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
It is 10 times Amazon’s total net income since it went public in 1997.
Bezos’ wealth has increased by an average of approximately $8 million an hour in 2018.
In 2015, Amazon surpassed Walmart as the MOST VALUABLE retailer in the United States by market capitalization.
Amazon is the second most valuable public company in the world (behind only Apple), the largest internet company by revenue in the world, and after Walmart, the second largest employer in the United States.
In 2018, for the first time, Jeff Bezos released in Amazon’s shareholder letter the number of Amazon Prime subscribers, which is 100 million Worldwide
On September 4, 2018, Amazon reached US$1 trillion in value, becoming the second publicly traded United States company to do so after Apple.
