Rich people around the world lost billions of dollars due to the Corona virus pandemic, but Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, was not affected by the rest of the business and owners of companies, as the Bloomberg Billionaires Index showed that the net worth of Bezos rose by $ 5.9 billion in 2020 until now, and that Bezos is The only person among the top five on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which did not lose in 2020.
Bezos is not the only person to have gained during an outbreak, as the net worth has increased Eric Yuan CEO of a company Zoom For video calls of more than 4 billion dollars in the year 2020, millions rely on video calls for both work and social communication in order to comply with the social spacing guidelines designed to help slow the spread of the new Corona virus.
According to Britain’s Business Insider, other billionaires, including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, saw their net worth drop as the Corona virus crisis caused unprecedented market fluctuations.
The wealthy are always among the first to be affected by global problems, as reports from Wealth-X And the Capgemini That billionaires around the world lost 7% of their collective net worth in 2018 due to market instability at the end of 2018,
Business Insider stated that Bezos is the richest person on earth, and most of his fortune comes from his stake in Amazon online retail stores, which he founded in his garage in 1994, while other retailers struggle to make ends meet and lay off employees due to the spread of Corona, has seen Amazon increased significantly, as the company decided to hire 100,000 new employees.
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