[fhayek]

He made more in three weeks than Trump is worth overall. Actually twice as much.

[Hot Tabasco]

With that much wealth, why not sell off and just enjoy the rest of your life doing whatever you want?

[unlearner]

Anyone with experience using Walmart online?

I’m thinking that may the closest thing to a conservative alternative to Amazon right now.

Too bad it is pretty much impossible to live in society today without lining the pockets of filthy-rich liberals.

[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

Wow.. I remember when he was concerned about bankruptcy in the late 90’s.

[UnwashedPeasant]

His office in 1999:

[WMarshal]

BeZos will be rich up to the moment that the Feds break up Amazon using antitrust regulation.

[madprof98]

His employees are on food stamps while he spews out social justice propaganda.

[Architect of Avalon]

If Amazon expands like he wants it to, he’ll have a fortune many times that size.

I don’t like his politics, but he built his own success.

[cherry]

my son works for Amazon...I didn’t know that they don’t get discounts when they order...also, amazon can sometimes be very very cheap in bonuses....

[ExpatCanuck]

LOL. I remember when I had more money than brain’s. I didn’t get smarter, I just lost a lot of money. I’ve been a millionaire and I’ve been broke. I don’t care what people tell you about how money doesn’t matter. Being a millionaire is better. Maybe I wasn’t as smart as I thought I was.

[Blue House Sue]

$142 billion goes a long way in Seattle.

[digger48]

Not one dime of it has come from me

[canuck_conservative]

Q: What can you NOT get when you have $142 billion?

Answer: Hair

[Slyfox]

Who woulda thought that his little used book venture would ever amount to much?

[SkyPilot]

"For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."

1 Timothy 6:10

[Retvet]

Obviously not paying his workers enough.

[EdnaMode]

[the_daug]

Jeff Bezos took a chance and he made money and I applaud success. If he uses his wealth to sabotage capitalism then hope he gets busted.

[G Larry]

Elitists can afford to be socialists......

[adorno]

Bezos is the riches man in the world, yet, Amazon is mostly a bubble stock. Bezos is super-rich, but only on paper.

AWS is he earnings center of the company, while the retail/e-commerce side is pathetic as far as earnings go.

Without AWS, Amazon would have been shut down years ago.

Overall, it's P/E ratio is pathetic, but, the hype keeps the stock moving astronomically high. Google and Microsoft and Apple and IBM and most other large corporations are more profitable. Even Walmart is more profitable. And, Walmart is still the retail gross revenue giant, beating Amazon by a lot.

Amazingly, Amazon’s cloud-computing business represents only about 10% of total revenue — it reported $5.49 billion in first quarter revenue, out of Amazon’s grand total $51.04 billion — yet AWS brought in $1.4 billion in operating income out of Amazon’s total operating income of $1.9 billion. While accounting for more than 73% of operating income, AWS revenue grew 48.6% from the year before and operating income increased 57.3%.