Bloomberg: Jeff Bezos is the richest person in the world

With $ 151 billion in badets, Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos heads the super-rich.

Also in the billionaire index of the economic intelligence service, Bloomberg, the founder of the Amazon Jeff Bezos has reached the rank of the richest man in the world. With a fortune of $ 151 billion, he is even the richest person in "modern history," as Bloomberg claims to have calculated – counted since 1982 and allowing for inflation.

Bill Gates in Second Place

By far, Microsoft's founder, Bill Gates, is ranked second with $ 95 billion and Warren Buffett, third-time investment legend, with $ 83 billion. Compared with the previous year, Bezo's badets increased by $ 51.5 billion. This should probably be due to the huge increase in value from the Amazon, which has almost doubled in annual comparison and is currently listed at around 1571 euros. Bezos is the largest shareholder of Amazons with about 16%. Already in March, the American magazine Forbes had led as the richest people in the world, has also succeeded here Bezos Bill Gates to round off.

It is also striking that the list Top 10 Bloomberg is dominated by technology billionaires: Bezos and Gates are also on the number 4 founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg (82.8 billion), in 8th and 9th place Larry Page (57.7 billion) and Sergey Brin (56.2 billion), inventor of Google, and Larry Ellison (54.8 billion), boss of Oracle, 10th rank.

Greaves and failures of the servers on the first day

The wealth of Bezo came in time for the Monday Amazon bonus show "Prime Day" of 36 hours. In the United States in particular, servers have fallen into the rush of customers, causing errors or unavailability of the Amazon site According to observers, the online retailer should establish a new sales record with its refund action.

Prime Day was accompanied by strikes in Germany, Poland and Spain About 2,400 employees are involved, and Leipzig must go on strike tomorrow, Wednesday. ( With the material of dpa )

(axk)