Amazon's owner Jeff Bezos increased his fortune | World

The wealth of Jeff Bezos of Amazon has further increased and reached new records, according to the list of Bloomberg billionaires

The wealth of Amazon Jeff Bezos has further increased and hit new records, according to Bloomberg's billionaire list. His fortune reached $ 150 billion Monday, leaving him far ahead of the founders of Microsoft, Bill Gates and its $ 95 billion, according to Bloomberg estimates.

The decline of Amazon shares, of which Bezos is the largest shareholder The wealth of Bill Gates soon reached 100 billion dollars in 1999, which is the threshold that Bezos 54. has now easily crossed.

Historically, Bezos is still far behind other Americans. Rich people like the oil tycoon John Rockefeller (who died in 1937) or the King of Steel Andrew Carnegie (died in 1919), whose wealth has today reached 300 Billions of dollars if l & rsquo; Inflation is taken into account, according to Frans Pres agency.

Bezos in 2014 was worth $ 32 billion. He founded Amazon, initially an ordinary online bookstore, in 1994. This multinational is today one of the most powerful in the world and has diversified its activities by entering claud (online data storage), intelligence artificial and video streaming.

Bezos bought the American newspaper Washington Post in 2013.

Publication on his wealth has come at a time when Amazon is launching its "Price Effect" promotion when Freemason offers discounts for 36 hours.