{"id":100778,"date":"2017-07-28T19:51:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T14:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=100778"},"modified":"2017-07-28T19:51:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T14:21:26","slug":"jeff-bezo-richest-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/jeff-bezo-richest-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezo was richest for some time&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos briefly was the worlds tichest man in Forbes magazine\u2019s tracking of wealth, as stock in his e-commerce company hit an all-time high.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Microsoft founder Bill Gates reclaimed the lead by afternoon, as Amazon\u2019s stock fell nearly 1% for the day to $1,046.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100779 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Amazon-founder-CEO-Jeff-Bezos.jpg_7642959_ver1.0_640_360.jpg\" alt=\"Jeff Bezo was richest for some time...\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Amazon-founder-CEO-Jeff-Bezos.jpg_7642959_ver1.0_640_360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Amazon-founder-CEO-Jeff-Bezos.jpg_7642959_ver1.0_640_360-500x280.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amazon shares have been trading at a record high. They hit $1,083.31 at about noon Thursday. According to securities filings, Bezos owns about 80 million shares, or 17%; those shares were valued at more than $87 billion at the peak. Bezos also owns The Washington Post through a holding company.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Forbes said Bezos\u2019 net worth was about $90.6 billion when the market opened Thursday. Gates had $90.1 billion. Forbes said Gates would have been the undisputed leader had he not given billions of dollars away to various philanthropic causes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos briefly was the worlds tichest man in Forbes magazine\u2019s tracking of wealth, as stock in his e-commerce company hit an all-time high. Microsoft founder Bill Gates reclaimed the lead by afternoon, as Amazon\u2019s stock fell nearly 1% for the day to $1,046. Amazon shares have been trading at a record high. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[50643,50642,15415,36731,38029,15414,50644,4485],"class_list":["post-100778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-top-stories","tag-80-million-shares","tag-amazon-ceo","tag-bill-gates","tag-forbes-magazine","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-microsoft-founder","tag-richest","tag-washington"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20170330144655-jeff-bezos.jpeg.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}