Jeff Bezos
Source of wealth: Amazon
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Biography
Jeff Bezos founded e-commerce giant Amazon in 1994 out of his Seattle garage.
Bezos stepped down as CEO to become executive chairman in 2021. He owns 8% of the company.
He and his wife MacKenzie divorced in 2019 after 25 years of marriage and he transferred a quarter of his then-16% Amazon stake to her.
In 2020, Bezos pledged to donate $10 billion to climate causes by 2030 through his Bezos Earth Fund; he has granted $2 billion so far.
He owns The Washington Post and Blue Origin, an aerospace company developing rockets; he briefly flew to space in one in 2021.
Bezos said in a 2022 interview with CNN that he plans to give away the majority of his wealth during his lifetime.
Perspective on their fortune
Gold
Everyday luxury
A Jeff Bezos's fortune is equivalent to 1881 of gold, but this may be difficult to value, as we don't usually have a handful of gold bars in our piggy bank.
A standard gold ring typically weighs between 4 and 7 grams. Let's say this one weighs 5 grams. It's usually 18k gold.
Based on today's gold price (not taking into account the jeweler's fee, shipping, or anything else), that gold ring would be worth $556.3
Jeff Bezos could buy 501,597,113 gold rings. That's a lot of fingers and a lot of gifts!!
And if the number of rings is difficult to visualize, all these rings would need 90 trucks to transport them, But we can be almost certain that Jeff Bezos will have enough left over to pay for the gas for those trucks.
Health
The price of life
Let's compare Jeff Bezos's fortune with the healthcare spending of a huge country
Jeff Bezos could fund the entire healthcare system of DR Congo with a population of over 105,800,000 of inhabitants for approximately 125.6 years.
But even if we compare their fortune to that of a rich country
At the other extreme, Jeff Bezos could cover the health expenditure of Luxembourg, considered the world's most heavily invested health system, for 55.5 years
Education
Buying the future
Lowest education spending
Jeff Bezos could assume the entire cost of the education system of Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, with more than 243,000,000 inhabitants for 82.1 years.
Highest education spending
But not only could he assume the cost of a poor country, Luxembourg is considered the country with the highest per capita investment in education in the world, Jeff Bezos could pay for it in full for 111.6 years.
Research
The monopoly of progress
Lowest research spending
Jeff Bezos could fully fund the state research budget of Pakistan, the fifth most populous country in the world with more than 260,000,000 of inhabitants, for 469.8 years.
Highest research spending
But even if we compare the total wealth of Jeff Bezos with Israel, the country that currently invests the most per capita in research in the world, it could assume the total cost of the system for 10.5 years.
Financial Assets
Monthly wealth history
Fortune comparison
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