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The richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos, added $ 6.28 billion ($ 9.1 billion) to his fortune after his company, Amazon, recorded its biggest shopping day in history customer.
The online retail giant has announced that Cyber Monday has exceeded its previous record, set the same day last year.
Amazon did not disclose the exact sales figures for the day, but said its customers had ordered 180 million items during the five days from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday.
However, the computer software company Adobe has estimated Amazon's sales at Cyber Monday at $ 7.9 billion.
And Fortune reported that Bezos' net worth had jumped 5% from the beginning to the end of its record sales day, while the company's shares had jumped 5.3%.
Black Friday 2018 also outpaced the previous year with online sales exceeding US $ 6 billion, according to Fortune.
Bezos' net worth is currently US $ 138.5 billion, up from around US $ 100 billion at the beginning of the year.
It was a great year for Amazon and its founder and CEO.
In July, Bezos became the richest man in the world in modern history, after his net worth exceeded $ 150 billion.
On September 4, Amazon became the second publicly traded company to break the $ 1 trillion mark after Apple realized the feat a month earlier.
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