On Tuesday, Bezos’ net worth climbed by $2.2 billion, to a record $199.7 billion (Photo by MANDEL ... [+] NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty ImagesJeff Bezos is closer than ever to a historic title: the first person ever to be worth $200 billion. On Tuesday, the shares of Amazon, which Bezos founded in 1994 and leads as chief executive, rose 1.2%—pushing Bezos’ net worth up by $2.2 billion, to a record $199.7 billion. He was worth $114 billion on the 2019 Forbes 400 list of richest Americans, which used stock prices from early September 2019. Bezos would have already surpassed the $200 billion mark had he not gone through the costliest divorce in history. While she has pledged to donate “until the safe is empty,” her net worth has grown more than $25 billion since the 2019 Forbes 400 list.

Source: Forbes August 25, 2020 22:07 UTC