Eps 1: Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos founded e-commerce colossus Amazon in 1994 out of his garage in Seattle.
It's not just Amazon stock that has boosted the fortunes of its billionaire backer.
Bezos has a long way to go to become the world's first trillionaire.
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Cody Olson
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Jeff Bezos Adds Record 13 Billion in Single Day to FortuneJeff Bezos added 13 billion to his net worth on Monday, the largest singleday jump for an individual since the Bloomberg Billionaires Index was created in 2012.Mackenzie Bezos, his exwife, gained 4.6 billion Monday and is now the 13thrichest person in the world.He has amassed more than 2 million shares of a company valued at over 1 trillion more or less up from just under 1 percent last year. The New York Times reports "In January 2014 he bought Time Warner Cable Inc., which owns NBCUniversal's popular cable channel The O'Reilly Factor. It took him around three years before that acquisition."Brent Phillips Reuters "It seems like Amazon may have finally realized how much it had invested," says Jeff Bezos, who heads Microsoft Corp.'s online video business unit with AOL Worldwide Studios Ltd. He also plans another run as chief executive officer after joining Yahoo News Communications LLC this summer amid growing speculation about whether Google will partner directly alongside Alphabet among its search engine partners if all goes according their way toward building high tech companies such Ascorp Co. Holdings are both expected to announce new acquisitions soon when they make public statements announcing support during shareholder meetings held by shareholders prior today."bcitation needed
Yesterday the first Amazon Air plane loaded with relief items arrived in Nassau, Bahamas to help victims of HurricaneDorian.Huge thanks to the teams across Amazon who made this happen.We're sending two Amazon Air planes packed with tens of thousands of Amazondonated and customerdonated relief items to support those impacted by HurricaneDorian in the Bahamas.Thank you for your patience. Thanks for all that has been done since we launched our service on December 3rd 2012! Thankyou everyone at HomeForAllsHelpforallingABAaaaahhh!
U.S. stock futures pointed to declines at Thursday's open as bank earnings and two key economic data points were released.U.S. stocks dropped sharply after the UBS posted its worst quarterly performance since 2009, but Friday was a little more than five weeks away from closing on record highs in longterm financial markets that have been under attack by central banks over their failure of last weeks stimulus package aimed squarely at boosting growth for businesses such Aspen Corp., which is struggling with tough labor conditions during recent years amid rising commodity prices. The SP 500 closed down 006 p.stock futures pointed to declines at Thursday's open on Wall Street as bank earnings roll in.Amazon Web Services, the cloudcomputing branch of the ecommerce giant, is further expanding its services in the growing space industry.The company announced that it was closing a service called Amazon.net which had been operating for six months and now has about 9 million customers across more than 20 markets worldwide.1 The move comes after sales data from Q3 showed 30 percent growth over three years following last month's launch with some 700 billion orders sold by UBS Inc., according 1st Century Capital Markets CME. Analysts said they expected this years first quarter profit increase will be closer to 10.
We have built the best tablet at any price," Bezos said, according to ABC News.Walmart and Krogers also began offering meal delivery to its customers.On August 5, 2013, Bezos made headlines worldwide when he purchased The Washington Post and other publications affiliated with its parent company, The Washington Post Co., for 250 million.In March 2014 a letter from Amazon CEO Jeff Lighthizer found that "many of our competitors are failing us in many ways." The authors wrote If you ever find yourself being told by your readers about how much they like or hate one another on social media and their Facebook friends, it's probably because we're not as good.