The wealth of the richest man in the world rose to $211 billion, after Amazon shares rose 4.7%, after the Pentagon announced the cancellation of the cloud computing contract with rival Microsoft.
According to Arab Net, the last time anyone in Bloomberg's billionaire rankings came close to that number was in January, when Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrived briefly to $210 billion.
The two men spent the first part of the year trading the number one position as the world's richest person, but Bezos has consolidated his grip on the number one position since mid-March, as Amazon shares rose 20% About that time, according to Bloomberg.
High stock prices in recent months have boosted the fortunes of a handful of tech giants, including Musk, who is still second to Bezos with a net worth of $180.8 billion even with Tesla shares fell on Tuesday.
Bezos added more than $8.4 billion yesterday to his fortune on his first day after officially resigning from his position as CEO of Amazon after 27 years in the position, while still He owns about 11% of the company.
This comes after the Pentagon said it was canceling a $10 billion cloud computing contract it awarded to Microsoft in 2019, after several years of wrangling between the government and some of the world's largest cloud computing companies. US technology companies on the deal. The decision indicates that it plans to split it between Microsoft and its competitor, Amazon.
And Bezos wasn't the only benefactor. MacKenzie Scott, Bezos' ex-wife and the world's richest woman, saw her fortune rise by $2.9 billion on Tuesday, more than nearly Its generous annual donations.
