Last month, Bloomberg reported that Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post, has accumulated a fortune worth $ 150 billion. That is the biggest nominal amount in modern history, and extraordinary any way you slice it. Bezos is the world’s lone hectobillionaire. He is worth what the average American family […]
Tag: Bezos’s
Amazon is still executing Bezos’s 1997 plan
ANALYSIS: Where were you 20 years ago today? If you were Jeff Bezos or a shareholder with enough foresight and confidence to invest in his startup, you were probably celebrating Amazon’s IPO, which raised $ 54 million — which in turn helped build a $ 465 billion company. Let’s not dwell on the buzzkilling numbers of […]