Bloomberg has updated its global billionaires index and revealed that Elon Musk has been dethroned as the richest person in the world. The man to dethrone him? Amazon's Jeff Bezos.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has been under fire after releasing a celebratory post on social media for the Blue Origin space mission, while employees were killed at an Amazon warehouse after being hit by a deadly tornado.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos joined the fun when he jokingly threatened actor Leonardo DiCaprio after a clip of the actor talking to Bezos' girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez, went viral on social media.
The mission will be New Shepard’s 16th flight, but this will be the first time that it would carry humans aboard. The mission dubbed the ‘First Human Flight’ will carry Bezos along with three other civilians and would blast off at 9:00 AM EDT from the company's Launch Site One near Van Horn, Texas.
Forbes magazine released the 2021 list of the globe’s wealthiest individuals on April 6. Jeff Bezos topped the list with his net worth of US$113 billion from a year ago which went up to US$177 billion.
E-commerce giant Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, would leave his chief executive post this year, transferring the spot to Andy Jassy, the company's cloud computing chief. The recent shift in the firm was announced on Tuesday.