{"id":27485,"date":"2020-08-29T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=27485"},"modified":"2020-08-28T19:56:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T19:56:02","slug":"bezos-worth-200-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/bezos-worth-200-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"<Bezos worth 200 billion>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CEO Jeff Bezos is now worth more than $200 billion.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As the\u00a0Amazon stock has risen more than 100% since the start of U.S. coronavirus shutdowns in March, its CEO, the world\u2019s richest man, is now, fueled by the change in consumer habits as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, worth more than $200 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Amid this Amazon peak, Jeff Bezos,\u00a0the 56-year-old, has crossed a milestone previously unseen in the nearly four decades\u00a0Forbes\u00a0has been tracking net worths: he is the world&#8217;s first-ever person to amass a $200 billion fortune. His net worth was about $115 billion at the start of 2020.\u00a0As of 1:50 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, the Amazon founder and CEO is worth $204.6 billion\u2014nearly $90 billion more than the world&#8217;s second-richest person,\u00a0Bill Gates, who&#8217;s currently worth $116.1 billion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jonathanponciano\/2020\/08\/26\/worlds-richest-billionaire-jeff-bezos-first-200-billion\/#5ffe559d4db7\">According to Forbes<\/a>, Bezos isn\u2019t alone among tech titans with fortunes surging to massive new heights. Facebook&#8217;s\u00a0Mark Zuckerberg\u00a0ended Tuesday as a brand-new centibillionaire, worth $103.1 billion after adding $3.4 billion to his fortune in one day, on Facebook stock gains. That surge continued early Wednesday afternoon, with Zuckerberg up an astonishing $6 billion just on Wednesday as of publication time. He&#8217;s now worth $109.1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>There are now more centibillionaires on the planet than ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEO Jeff Bezos is now worth more than $200 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":27486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[198,99,1385,658],"class_list":["post-27485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-amazon","tag-ceo","tag-ceo-northam","tag-jeff-bezos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27485"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27489,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27485\/revisions\/27489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}