If they’re investing in a trend, then you should take note. With the stock at that price, Bezos’s fortune would be about US$86 billion, just under Gates’s current level. Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk are among the top 5 or top 10 richest people globally, depending on when you check the rankings. set his Amazon price target at US$1,000 in May, 34 per cent above Thursday’s close of US$744.43. Even so, the 85-year-old has still seen his net worth rise by US$2.7 billion in 2016, with Berkshire’s Class A shares up 9.4 per cent.īezos, 52, now lags only Spain’s Amancio Ortega, the Inditex SA founder who has a US$73 billion fortune, and Microsoft Inc.’s Bill Gates, the world’s richest person, with US$89 billion.īezos’s rank could climb higher. chairman donated about US$2.2 billion worth of stock this month in his annual gift to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos unveils his rocket HQ and dreams of outerspaceīezos’s rise in the billionaire ranking has been helped by Buffett’s philanthropy.

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