The head of Amazon has become the richest man in modern history

The founder and CEO of the Amazon.com online retailer Jeff Bezos is again recognized as the richest man in the world. His fortune exceeded $ 150 billion, reports Bloomberg.

Bezos is also recognized as the richest man in modern history, since his condition is now larger than that of Bill Gates in 1999 with an adjustment for inflation. Then the founder of Microsoft had a little more than $ 100 billion, which in terms of modern money is about $ 149 billion.

As CNBC notes, Bezos remains to conquer only one record - according to the state of a percentage of the US GDP. John Rockefeller, the first billionaire in the history of the United States, at the beginning of the 20th century, was about 2% of the GDP of the States. In order to equalize with him, the head of Amazon needs to have about $ 350 billion.

We will remind, earlier today, Forbes magazinehas published the TOP-100 of the highest paid celebrities.