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With a stock price surge of 13% after Amazon’s most recent quarterly filing, Wall Street analysts were reportedly “shocked” by the company’s rapid growth. The e-commerce juggernaut beat both quarterly revenue and earnings forecasts, and continues to trailblaze with a 34% revenue growth rate.
This boded well for the net worth of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, which fluctuates wildly based on Amazon stock price movements. In fact, the recent jump in price on October 27 helped catapult him past Bill Gates (again) to become the richest person in North America, as well as the entire world.
As of publication time, according to Forbes’ real-time wealth tracker, his wealth stands at $92.6 billion.
Net Worth Leaders by Continent
Today’s graphic comes to us from HowMuch.net and it shows the richest person on each continent.
Here is the full breakdown:
| Person | Continent | Net Worth | Source of Wealth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeff Bezos | North America | $92.6B | Technology |
| Jorge Paulo Leman | South America | $30.8B | Food and beverage |
| Amancio Ortega | Europe | $77.8B | Fashion, real estate, investing |
| Aliko Dangote | Africa | $13.7B | Cement, sugar, flour, salt |
| Mukesh Ambani | Asia | $41.9B | Oil an gas |
| Gina Rinehart | Oceania | $16.6B | Mining |
Net worth figures from HowMuch.net as of November 3, 2017To be thorough, HowMuch.net also “nominated” a person to represent the continent of Antarctica, even though it has no permanent residents.
Chosen for this title? It’s none other than Arnold W. Donald, the CEO of Carnival, the world’s largest cruise company, which monetizes the icy continent for its Antarctic cruises on a regular basis.
There’s a black dude living in Antarctica?
The richest person on each continent – that we know of.
The most wealthy families are not on that list, because they literally own the entire Elite apparatus. Fake news.
How come the analysis of Amazon’s vitals given in this post are so upbeat and those provided by Karl Denninger are sl dramatically different.
I don’t believe those numbers.
amazon has never turned a profit–let the stock market fall and bezos will not be so rich–
did you notice that the wealthy from the west are mostly wealthy from some sort of entertainment or unnecessary product or service,while the rich from the other parts of the world mostly made their $ from producing something?