Miami Palmetto High grad Jeff Bezos vaulted to the top of Forbes’ list of richest people in the world, easily outdistancing runner-up Bill Gates in a record-setting year that saw more billionaires recognized than ever before.
Bezos, 54, who founded and runs Amazon.com, an online shopping business based in Seattle, topped Forbes’ 2018 list with the first 12-figure net worth ever reported by the business publication’s popular annual billionaires’ ranking — a near-incomprehensible $112 billion. That’s after his net worth leapt more than $39 billion in a single year, according to Forbes’ estimates.
He also owns the Washington Post, and Amazon last year acquired Whole Foods in a $13.7 billion merger.
Source: latimes
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