Billionaire Jeff Bezos, is about to become the world’s first trillionaire despite the coronavirus pandemic that has bled the world economy dry.
The only wealthy man close to Bezos’s mouth watery $140 billion (N54,070,800,000,000) net worth is Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, who is valued at about $102 billion (N39,394,440,000,000), 22 Words reports.
Born in New Mexico in 1964, the Amazon chief, CEO and owner of Amazon, has always been passionate about computers and that influenced his decision to study computer science and electrical engineering at Princeton University.
Some years into school, he quit and started an online bookshop from his garage called Amazon in 1995. The initial success of the business was inspiring as it sold across 45 countries within the first 30 days.
It should be noted that his wealth has been increasing over the past five years at an average yearly growth of 34% despite losing around $38 billion to his ex-wife, MacKenzie Bezos.
When Comparison looked at 25 world’s richest individuals, only 11 were found to have a shot at becoming a trillionaire in their lifetime.
Bezos is most likely to get there before any of them, while Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg could be the youngest to reach the mark.
