Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, added £10bn to his fortune in just one day
by Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent from Technology | The Guardian on (#5600C)
As Amazon thrives under Covid-19, critics say its founder's wealth - he could buy the UK's four big banks - is obscene'
He was already by far the world's richest person, but Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has set a fresh record increasing his fortune by an additional $13bn (10bn) in a single day to take his personal wealth to an unprecedented $189bn.
The huge increase in Bezos's wealth on Monday alone is equivalent of adding nearly 30 times the Queen's 350m fortune. His total wealth now makes him worth more than Britain's biggest company, the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca which is valued on the stock exchange at 121bn.
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