Everything points to Jeff Bezos becoming the richest man on the planet soon. According to Bloomberg's wealth barometer, the founder of Amazon is 3.5 billion euros away from the top spot in the ranking, led by Bill Gates . So, if Amazon shares reach $1,042 and Microsoft's remain stable, he will be able to catch up and take the lead in the ranking.
There is an answer to all this, because shortly after the new trading day began on Wall Street, Amazon reached the goal it had been working and playing towards for weeks: $1,000 per share. It is the first time that Amazon has reached this value, placing it as the fourth company worldwide in market capitalization, behind companies such as Apple , Alphabet (Google) and Microsoft , as well as $35 billion ahead of Facebook , Mark Zuckerberg's social network.
Amazon has changed the landscape of its sector, in fact, it did so 20 years bosnia and herzegovina phone number ago when it went public, and little by little it has managed to become the indispensable tool to obtain almost any product with a single click, be it food, toys, music, books, or any other product. Right now the company has a total of 341,000 employees worldwide, but there is still a lot of room for growth as can be seen in the figures.
The $1,000 per share we are talking about represents a 33% increase in value so far in 2017, and 368% in the last five years. Thus, the great project that Bezos envisioned a few decades ago is, today, one of the most important businesses in terms of online shopping. Specifically, Amazon leads 43% of the e-commerce market in the US, and is on track to increase these good figures.