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Jeff Bezos Becomes the Richest Man In Modern History, Topping $150 Billion (bloomberg.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the inconceivable-riches dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Jeff Bezos is the richest person in modern history. The Amazon founder's net worth broke $150 billion in New York on Monday morning, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. That's about $55 billion more than Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, the world's second-richest person. Bezos, 54, has now topped Gates in inflation-adjusted terms. The $100 billion mark that Gates hit briefly in 1999 at the height of the dot-com boom would be worth about $149 billion in today's dollars. That makes the Amazon chief executive officer richer than anyone else on earth since at least 1982, when Forbes published its inaugural wealth ranking. Bezos crossed the threshold just as Amazon prepares to kick off its 36-hour summer sales event, Prime Day. The company's share price was $1,825.73 at 11:10 a.m. in New York, extending its 2018 gain to 56 percent and giving Bezos a $150.8 billion fortune. A little more than a week ago, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg overtook Warren Buffett to become the world's third-richest person.

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  1. $50000 by 110010001000 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought my $50,000 I make working in IT in Silicon Valley was a lot. I can't even imagine $150,000,000,000!

  2. Re:If I had that much money by b0s0z0ku · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wrecking authoritarian conservatism by example would actually be fun...

  3. Re:Quadrillionare Qunitillionare by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "he cannot drink any more beer that you or I can in a single day"

    I'm going to have to disagree with that.

    I bumped into Jeff on a night out in Bangkok. The cunt was already wasted. After a discussion of the merits of Prime Day, we started doing Jagermeisters, one after another, after another. The fucker Would. Not. Go. Down.

    I got the barkeep to open up some absinthe, in a desperate bid to slow the guy down, but he was like an elephant. He was downing those flaming shots of absinthe quick as a cheetah on crack.

    He turned around with a big shit-eating grin on his face, and said the words I would never forget :"Your turn, motherfucker"

    I took one shot of absinthe, and projectile vomited all over a nearby ladyboy, who proceeded to kick the shit out of me.

    Although this is only anecdotal evidence, it is my opinion that Jeff Bezos CAN drink more beer than you or I - far more.