Jeff Bezos Amasses $202 Billion Fortune, Set a New Record

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon Inc, has broken his own record as the world’s richest man as he emerged the first human to amass a $200 billion fortune.

The net worth of Jeff Bezos rose by $4.9 billion on Wednesday after the price of Amazon stock gained 2 percent.

As of 9:20 a.m Nigerian time on Thursday, the net worth of the founder and CEO of Amazon, stood at $202 billion. Bringing the billionaire’s total gain in the last 24 hours to $5.22 billion.

Bezos’s net worth has risen by $85.1 billion from the year-to-date, making it the highest increase this year so far.

This was followed by Elon R Musk, the CEO and Founder of Tesla.

Musk’s net worth rose by $73.6 billion this year and $5.46 billion in the last 24 hours to $115 billion.

Mark Zuckerberg came third with $36.3 billion increase in net worth to $115 billion.

However, Bill Gates remained the world’s second wealthiest person with a net worth of $124 billion. While Zuckerberg, Musk, Bernad Arnault and Oracle of Omaha (Warren Buffet) were third, fourth, fifth and sixth richest people, respectively. See the billionaire list compiled by Bloomberg below.