Amazon’s Bezos could become the world’s first ever trillionaire

Coronavirus could be a blessing in disguise for Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos is already the world’s wealthiest person by a healthy margin and he’s the founder and CEO of one of the world’s few trillion-dollar companies, he could also become worth $1 trillion all by himself after coronavirus.

After all, while Amazon’s business has thrived, so far, during the current economic crisis and coronavirus pandemic — boosting Bezos’ personal net worth in the process — a major economic downturn could still potentially alter his fortunes at some point in the next few years.

Comparisun predicts that Bezos will become the world’s first trillionaire by 2026, according to the firm’s new study, which looks at the average annual growth of the billionaire’s net worth over the past five years.

Bezos is currently worth $143 billion, according to Bloomberg, and Comparisun calculated that the Amazon CEO’s net worth has increased by an average of about 34% in each of the past five years.

Bezos’ wealth has continued to grow steadily, even with ex wife MacKenzie getting roughly $38 billion of his Amazon stake as part of his 2019 divorce settlement. Overall, Bezos’ net worth has more than doubled since 2015, when it was around $63 billion, according

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