A mind-boggling amount.
Amazon boss Jeff Bezos saw his personal fortune jump $ 13 billion in a single day, Monday, July 20.
This is the first time that this figure has been reached by a single person since the creation of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index in 2012, the daily ranking of the richest people in the world.
The containment measures for the population, the closure of restaurants and stores have boosted online shopping: + 73% this year.
This made the stock market rise in the value of Amazon stocks and high-tech companies in general.
Between March and May, the fortune of Jeff Bezos (Amazon) increased by more than 30%, and that of Mark Zuckerberg, boss of Facebook, by more than 46%, according to this report of Americans for Tax Fairness and the Institute for Policy Studies Program for Inequality, which compiled the data from Forbes.
The richest person in the world, Jeff Bezos, 56, has seen his fortune increase by $ 74 billion since the start of the year, to reach $ 189.3 billion, ahead of Microsoft CEO Bill Gates (118 billion) and the French CEO of LVMH Bernard Arnault (94.7 billion).
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