Emily Jane Fox is a national correspondent at Vanity Fair and a cohost of the podcast Inside the Hive. She is the best-selling author of Born Trump and a chronicler of characters from Washington to Manhattan to Hollywood (and sometimes other places too—you never know where characters will re...
The tech sector had a rough day of trading Wednesday, resulting in billions lost from the fortunes of some of the world's richest people.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, the world’s first centibillionaire, a man who vies with Bill Gates for the title of the planet’s richest individual, is asking the public for donations to provide basic support to his800,000employees who are suffering in poverty in the wake of the COVID-19 ...
Jeff Bezos is once again the world’s richest man, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index Jeff Bezos dethroned Elon Musk to reclaim his title as the world’s richest man, as the Amazon founder’s net worth gained $23 billion in 2024 and currently stands at $200bn, topping the Tesla...
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, whose estimated net worth of $157 billion makes him the richest man in the world, is expected to haul in hundreds of millions of dollars from Uber's anticipated initial public offering next week. The 55-year-old tech entrepreneur was one of the...
Jeff Bezos was briefly the world's richest person on Thursday. The recent surge in Amazon stock has pushed Bezos' fortune to over $90 billion, vaulting him past Bill Gates. Although he has been a billionaire for more than 20 years, his wealth has surged in the last two years. watch ...
Mark Zuckerberg just secured his place as the world’s second-richest person for the first time ever—and he could be on his way to the top. The Meta CEO leapfrogged Amazon founder Jeff Bezos by $1 billion to take the number two spot on Thursday with a net worth of $...
Bezos may not only be the richest man in the world today — he might become the richest man ever, at least measured in pure dollars. At his peak Gates was worth $90 billion, marking the largest single fortune ever. With little sign that Amazon's momentum may be slowing, Bezos could we...
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Jeff Bezos has invested more than $30 million in the transportation company Uber. One of his notable investment successes is Workday Inc. which provides human resource services in the cloud. Shortly after Bezos’s venture capital investment in the company, it went public in aninitial public offe...