Just yesterday the CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos stepped down from his position to make a way for new leadership in the organization and took the executive chair position of the company that he had founded 27 years back. Even after stepping away from the CEO position, Jeff continues to rank on the top of the Forbes World’s Real-Time Billionaires list. You will be astonished to know that this man has a net worth of $203 billion as per the Bloomberg Billionaire Index.
Lady fortune charmed his career when he first started the company Amazon in 1994. At the age of 57, this business magnate has handed over his CEO responsibility to Andy Jassy who earlier worked as the CEO of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) wing of the business. As Bezos finished off his pending work as the CEO, he has a lot in store to look forward to in his career with some personal projects lined up yet getting a steady source of income from his own founded company.
As Bezos takes up the executive chair position of Amazon, he remains to have the largest stake in the company. In 2019 alone, this billionaire increased his fortune by 73% as per the USA Today report. The monetary raise comes even after he handed over a quarter of his company stake during the divorce to his ex-wife Mackenzie Scott. Apart from Amazon, Jeff has other businesses such as Blue Origins and the Washington Post media outlet as his source of income.
His fortune even saw a huge increase last year in 2020 even during the pandemic times when most businesses were badly hit. But Amazon’s demand went skyrocketed due to its online delivery services and thus, his net worth increased by $75 million in that year itself. Although he has been getting a lot of fortune and lady luck is smiling at him at all times, however, he has also received substantial criticism from the public when several of his warehouse workers were living on food stamps.
