Amazon founder Jeff Bezos could become the first man to join the ‘The Trillion Dollar Club’ in 2026, despite the fact that with his recent divorce he lost $ 38 billion.
According to an analysis carried out by the Comparisun website, if the billionaire’s personal fortune maintains its growth rate as until now, the American could reach the sum at 62 years. The businessman has always been proud of being raised by a Cuban in the United States, Miguel Ángel Bezos.
The capital of Bezos has been increasing at an annual rate of 34 percent in the last five years, despite the fact that in the separation agreement of his ex-wife MacKenzie Bezos, he was forced to deliver him Amazon shares valued at 38,000 million Dollars.
Comparisun took the 2019 Forbes magazine list of the world’s richest people and studied the data of 25 billionaires, of which only 11 have a real chance of being trillionaires someday.
This list, published last August, the headed the creator of Amazon for the third consecutive year, with an estimated capital of 113,000 million dollars, being the only one that surpassed the barrier of 100,000 million dollars.
The figures Comparisun has analyzed now correspond to September, which means that they do not include the profits that the businessman has obtained during the coronavirus pandemic.
Bezos has an equity of around 138,000 million dollars and so far this year his capital has grown by 28,300 million dollars, according to Bloomberg.
This is because Amazon’s shares have skyrocketed. While large companies around the world have been forced to make layoffs and cut wages, the large online marketer is increasingly in demand for its services. The coronavirus pandemic has led people to opt for online shopping as a way to maintain social confinement.
Bezos is not the only millionaire to whom the current health crisis has favored him. According to a report from the United States Institute of Political Studies, the billionaires of that country reported a collective wealth of about 282,000 million dollars, about 9.5 percent, in just under a month, specifically between 18 March and April 10.
Those fortunes do not include that of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. However, the computer genius himself is one of 11 billionaires with a chance of being a trillionaire at some point in his life. According to the Comparisun study, if Bezzos would be the first to do so, Zuckerberg could be the youngest, in 2036, when he is 51 years old.
Clarification needed
CyberCuba He welcomes the comments on Facebook and clarifies that the English word trillonaire means “who has a million million”, which is equivalent to the Spanish word billionaire. This can create confusion since billionaire or billion in English means “only” one billion. The Fundéu specifies the differences between a billion in Spanish and in English: “One billion is 1,000,000,000, that is, one billion or, more commonly, one billion, while one billion is 1,000,000,000,000, that is, one million million “.
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