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The equity of Jeff Bezos Founder of Amazon.com Inc., reached 150 billion New York Monday, according to ] Bloomberg Billionaires Index charged with tracking the fortune of millionaires in real time
It is about 55 billion more than the co-founder of Microsoft Corp. Bill Gates the second wealth of the world
Bezos 54 years, also outperformed Gates in terms corrected for inflation. The mark of 100 billion that Gates hit briefly in 1999 at the height of the Internet boom, would be worth about $ 149 billion in dollars today.
That made the CEO of Amazon is richer than any other person on earth since at least 1982, when Forbes published his first wealth ranking.
Bezos crossed the threshold when Amazon was preparing to launch their 36-hour summer sales event, Prime Day which was experienced a difficult start due to technical problems affecting the website and the company's mobile application
The The shares of the company which had reached a record of 1,841.95 Monday morning, reduced profits in the news, finishing with a 0.5% rise to $ 1,822.49.
Bezos more than 150 billion dollars can last for a short time . Stocks lost less than $ 1,800 in prolonged trading after Netflix Inc. posted disappointing results, rocking technology investors.
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