The state of the head of Amazon Bezos on Black Friday exceeded $ 100 billion

Amazon Head Jeff Bezos became the first billionaire of the 21st century, whose fortune exceeded $ 100 billion. This happened on Black Friday amid the growth of Amazon shares, Bloomberg reports. Before Bezos, Bill Gates “overcame” a mark of 100 billion, but it was back in 1999.

Amazon is the largest online store in the world, and on Black Friday the company's shares against the background of increased sales increased in price by 2%. In this regard, the assessment of the state of the Bezos, the founder and owner of the company also increased. According to the results of trading on Friday, Bloomberg estimated it at $ 100.3 billion - this is a plus of $ 2.4 billion per day. According to experts, the volume of orders per day increased by 18.4%compared to last year.

The 53-year-old Bezos took the first line in the rating of billionaires at the end of last month, pushing Bill Gates to the second place. Then the state of the head of Amazon was estimated at just more than $ 93 billion, TASS recalls. According to experts, against the backdrop of the growth of Amazon shares for a year, we got rich for $ 32.6 billion.

Bloomberg wonders what Bezos is going to do with such a state. His closest "competitors" - Bill Gates and Warren Buffett - spend a significant share of condition on charity projects. However, in the case of the head of Amazon, this is not so.

Currently, the state of Bill Gates in the Bloomberg Billionaires rating is estimated at $ 89.1 billion.

Amazon is the world's largest company selling goods and services via the Internet. It was founded by Bezos in 1994. From the sale of books and musical records, the company gradually moved to the trade in video recordings, video games and household electronics, as well as the first in the USA, offered users of its site paid downloads of films with the possibility of watching them without connecting to the Internet. The turnover of Amazon last year amounted to about 136 billion dollars.