Amidst the collapsing economy due to the coronavirus pandemic, Jeff Bezos is expected to reach the exalted status of the world’s first trillionaire in just six years, according to research.
The e-commerce giant’s sales topped $75 billion in the first quarter, driven by spiking demand during the pandemic that has kept people at home and depending on at-home delivery services, according to Marketwatch.
The business software comparison site used data collected from the last five years of the Forbes Rich List to calculate the yearly wealth growth rate of the world’s richest billionaires.
If his net worth does reach $1 trillion, he’d be worth more than the individual GDPs of 179 countries with a combined population of 3.4 billion — 43.7 percent of all humans alive, the outlet reported.
It’s also worth noting that Bezos also had to relinquish much of his wealth to his wife from a divorce proceeding last year.
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