7 things you didn't know about the world's richest billionaire Jeff Bezos
(Baonghean.vn) - Founder and CEO of American e-commerce company Amazon, Mr. Jeff Bezos, has reached the milestone of 105 billion USD in assets and is predicted to become the first person in the world to own a trillion USD in assets... Below are 7 facts that not many people may know about Bezos and his huge fortune.
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| In just the past year, the head of Amazon has "pocketed" $19.3 billion. This income is equivalent to about $52 million/day, $2 million/hour, or $36,000/minute - equal to the average annual salary of workers born between the early 1980s and early 1990s in the US. |
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| Bezos graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science. As of March 2017, Princeton had an endowment of $22.8 billion, less than a quarter of Bezos’s current fortune. In 2011, Bezos and his wife, also a Princeton alumna, donated $15 million to the school. |
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| Bezos is the 25th largest landowner in the United States, according to Land Report. His largest property by size is a 30,000-acre ranch in Van Horn, Texas, which serves as the headquarters for Bezos’ secretive company, Blue Origin. |
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| In 1998, Bezos bought a 5.5-acre mansion in Medina, a seaside suburb of Seattle, Washington, for $10 million. At the time, Bezos’s net worth—a year after Amazon went public—was $1.6 billion. That was also the year Bezos first appeared on Forbes’ list of the world’s richest people. Bezos’s Seattle mansion was worth less than 1% of his fortune. |
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| In January 2017, Bezos reportedly spent $23 million to buy two homes that used to be a textile museum in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington DC. He is also said to plan to turn the two homes into the largest private home in Washington DC, with more than 2,500 square meters of living space. Bezos’ neighbors in this neighborhood include former President Barack Obama and Ivanka Trump, the eldest daughter of President Donald Trump. |
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| Mr Bezos became a billionaire in 1998, when Amazon went public. At the time, Buffett was the second-richest person in America, with a net worth of nearly $30 billion. Nearly 20 years later, Bezos has about $20 billion more than Buffett. |
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| Jeff Bezos will become the world's first "trillionaire" by 2042. Although it will take another $910.7 billion for Jeff Bezos to become a "trillionaire", according to many calculations, that future is getting closer than we imagine. |
