Jeff Bezos becomes the second richest man in the world

Jeff Bezos becomes the second richest man in the world

Ask anyone who is the richest person in the world, most likely to know that it is Bill Gates. It has remained in that place 18 of the last 23 years, and it seems that it will not change in the near future. However, the sites have changed below gates, and another giant tech industry has been placed in second place this week.

According to Bloomberg, the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos, overthrew Warren Buffett last Wednesday, taking the second position. The cause was the increase of Amazon shares up to 18.32 dollars, which added 1.5 billion dollars to Bezos's fortune, to have a total of 75.6 billion dollars. Currently, Buffett has 46.5 billion dollars. The gap between one and the other is narrow enough to change positions again, but Buffett has lost a few billion recently while Bezos continues to grow. Only in what goes of the year, Bezos has managed to make $10.2 billion.

Bezos is now "only" to $10.4 billion behind Bill Gates, which leads us to ask, will he be able to unseat Bill Gates eventually?

According to CNN Money, the price of Amazon shares is still on the rise. Nor can we ignore Bezos's interest in space engineering with its Blue Origin company, which expects to offer tourist space travel using reusable rockets in a few years, as well as developing a lunar delivery service. Just this week, we had the opportunity to see inside the space capsule for the passengers, and to hear more about their ambitious plans to create a lunar shuttle service in 2020.

It is possible that the change will happen, considering that Bill Gates is now focused on altruism, while Bezos continues to focus on building his business empire. In addition, Gates has 61 and Bezos 53, so he can make that jump to the first place.

Unless Bezos takes several terrible decisions with your money or decides to leave everything behind to go to relax on a tropical island somewhere.

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