Posted on 11/26/2017 8:46:56 PM PST by Blue House Sue
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has reached a net worth of $100 billion — it's enough this holiday to buy over half a billion Echo speakers or pay the yearly subscriptions of more than 670 million Amazon Music Unlimited accounts.
The online retail mogul this week surpassed Bill Gates on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, advancing almost $11 billion past the Microsoft co-founder. He can thank Black Friday sales for helping Amazon shares to jump more than 2 percent and online holiday sales to increase by more than 18 percent since last year, Bloomberg reported.
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Meh.....
Honest to God, why are people buying these Echo spies? I am not the paranoid type, but this thing creeps me out. And what exactly is the point? Are we this lazy?
Bingo!
Good for him. A true American entrepreneur in the spirit of Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Ford, Gates and Jobs. He has truly disrupted an industry that needed disrupting, and is reaping the rewards.
Well put.
I will never give that bastard or his company $0.10
“I will never give that bastard or his company $0.10”
Well then, Bezos is only worth, $99,999,999,999.90.
Likewise. I used to do business with them but the Washington Post has turned me off.
Who does he donate to?
Blue, Red or Green?
If the answer is ‘All of them’, then I expect the proportions to be quite different. i.e. 78% for Blue, 18% for Green and 2% Red.
He owns the Washington Post.
Lots of in-kind contributions to the DNC.
But Amazon has not actually earned any profit yet?! It is all stock price on speculation. 7casepacker
Slight profits and the market cap is $570 billion.
If If were him, I’d cash out and go back to the ranch in South Texas.
I read somewhere that $100 billion dollars goes a long way these days in Cotulla, Texas.
All that money and he’s still bald.
He’s rich enough to buy and sell George Soros many times over. Not likely though, if he runs The Post.
If only Sears’ management had understood the scope of the internet. Amazon IS the online version of what the Sears catalog used to be.
Good for him, the leftist scum that he is, he made his money the old fashioned way as far as I can tell.
It’s all “balance sheet” wealth. He couldn’t raise one percent of one hundred billion in cash if he had to.
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